{"id":163,"date":"2013-03-29T20:42:09","date_gmt":"2013-03-30T01:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flevy.com\/blog\/?p=163"},"modified":"2024-05-28T20:08:01","modified_gmt":"2024-05-29T01:08:01","slug":"first-milestone-achieved-for-our-free-powerpoint-plugin-1000-shares-and-counting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flevy.com\/blog\/first-milestone-achieved-for-our-free-powerpoint-plugin-1000-shares-and-counting\/","title":{"rendered":"First Milestone Achieved for our Free PowerPoint Plugin &#8211; 1000 Shares and Counting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A month ago, we released <a href=\"https:\/\/flevy.com\/powerpoint-plugin\">Flevy Tools<\/a> to our modest list of newsletter subscribers. Flevy Tools is a <a href=\"https:\/\/flevy.com\/powerpoint-plugin\">PowerPoint plugin<\/a>. It can dynamically create various business diagrams, such as Gantt Charts and Harvey Ball Diagrams. \u00a0The diagrams are highly customizable.<\/p>\n<p>We immediately received great feedback via email, many compare the plugin to ones available at major consulting firms, such as Accenture. \u00a0Some even offered to pay!<\/p>\n<p>However, we decided to keep it free, as it was part of an experimental social media campaign. The purpose of the campaign was to target presentation-heavy professionals, such as management consultants, on LinkedIn. Flevy Tools is free to download, but first, you need to &#8220;share&#8221; it on LinkedIn. This is the architected viral nature of our campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Thus far, the campaign has been successful. With limited promotion other than the initial set of emails, we&#8217;ve reached 1000-plus LinkedIn shares. We expect the number of users to actually far exceed 1000.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/flevy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/flevytools_1001.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-181 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/flevy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/flevytools_1001.png\" alt=\"Flevy Tools\" width=\"450\" height=\"259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/flevy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/flevytools_1001.png 450w, https:\/\/flevy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/flevytools_1001-300x172.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our next milestone is 2,000 shares. \u00a0Once we reach this goal, we will release the next version to Flevy Tools, which will include support for additional diagrams. \u00a0\u00a0Our goal is make Flevy Tools a leading plugin for business diagramming needs&#8211;to have it on par with, if not superior to, the ones developed in-house by top tier consulting firms.<\/p>\n<p>So, stay tuned!<\/p>\n<p><strong>In the meantime, do you have <a href=\"https:\/\/flevy.com\/powerpoint-plugin\">Flevy Tools<\/a>? \u00a0Share and download the link below&#8211;help us reach 2000 shares!<\/strong><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flevy.com\/powerpoint-plugin\">www.flevy.com\/powerpoint-plugin<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Have any diagram requests? \u00a0Waterfall Charts? \u00a0Marimekko? Pyramids? \u00a0Scorecards? Segment Diagrams?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Feel free to post them in the comments below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A month ago, we released Flevy Tools to our modest list of newsletter subscribers. Flevy Tools is a PowerPoint plugin. It can dynamically create various business diagrams, such as Gantt Charts and Harvey Ball Diagrams. \u00a0The diagrams are highly customizable. We immediately received great feedback via email, many compare the plugin to ones available at&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/flevy.com\/blog\/first-milestone-achieved-for-our-free-powerpoint-plugin-1000-shares-and-counting\/\" rel=\"bookmark\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">First Milestone Achieved for our Free PowerPoint Plugin &#8211; 1000 Shares and Counting<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,88],"tags":[97,95,92,93,94,34,1330,96],"class_list":["post-163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flevy-news","category-powerpoint-templates","tag-approach-diagrams","tag-booz-balls","tag-flevy-tools","tag-gantt-charts","tag-harvey-balls","tag-powerpoint","tag-powerpoint-templates","tag-step-box"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flevy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flevy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flevy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flevy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flevy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/flevy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13886,"href":"https:\/\/flevy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions\/13886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flevy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flevy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flevy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}