Xcelus’ Social Media Training for Life Technologies Recognized as One of This Year’s Best Video Training Projects

Xcelus, LLC was announced as a finalist in the Video & Film category in the ninth annual American Business Awards, one of the most prestigious awards for companies in the US. The American Business Awards are also known as Stevie® Awards.

The social media training was part of Life Technologies annual code of conduct employee training.  Xcelus’ services for this project included instructional design, script development, storyboard development, video motion graphics, video shooting and editing, video compression, online video hosting, and employee tracking and reporting.

“Being a finalist is a great honor for Xcelus”, said Todd Corbett, President of Xcelus, LLC. “It validates our creative team and their talent to create a successful employee training video.”

This year’s Stevie Award winners will be announced during the annual gala on Monday, June 20 at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City.  More than six hundred executives from across the U.S.A. are expected to attend.  The event will benefit Camfed (camfed.org), which fights poverty and HIV/AIDS in Africa by educating girls and empowering women to become leaders of change. The ceremonies will be broadcast on radio nationwide by the Business TalkRadio Network.

More than 2,800 nominations from organizations of all sizes and in virtually every industry were submitted this year for consideration in more than 40 categories. Finalists were chosen by business professionals nationwide during preliminary judging in April and May.  Stevie Award winners will be selected from among the Finalists in each category next week by members of 10 specialized final judging committees.  More than 150 executives will have participated in judging this year.

Details about The American Business Awards and the list of Finalists in all categories are available athttp://www.stevieawards.com/aba.

About Xcelus
Xcelus, an award-winning visual communications and digital media company, develops innovative and unique online videos, allowing companies to integrate the power and persuasion of video into their training, sales, marketing, and communication strategies. The Xcelus online video platform tools allow companies to manage, deliver and measure video content to meet the needs of today’s business requirements. Xcelus’ video solutions include sales, marketing, customer support, lead generation, recruiting, and employee communications. Xcelus is a private company founded in 2005 and is based in Provo, Utah. www.xcelus.com

About the Stevie Awards
Stevie Awards are conferred in four programs: The American Business Awards, The International Business Awards, the Stevie Awards for Women in Business, and the Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service. Honoring organizations of all types and sizes and the people behind them, the Stevies recognize outstanding performances in the workplace worldwide. Learn more about The Stevie Awards at http://www.stevieawards.com.

Xcelus partners with Channel Compass to deliver Unified Communications e-learning training program for Plantronics. Xcelus developed three e-learning modules including one web video and two interactive Flash modules. The e-learning training program with be delivered to Plantronics channel partners worldwide.

About Xcelus
Xcelus, an award-winning visual communications and digital media company, develops innovative and unique online videos, allowing companies to integrate the power and persuasion of video into their training, sales, marketing, and communication strategies. The Xcelus online video platform tools allow companies to manage, deliver and measure video content to meet the needs of today’s business requirements. Xcelus’ video solutions include sales, marketing, customer support, lead generation, recruiting, and employee communications. Xcelus is a private company founded in 2005 and is based in Provo, Utah. http://www.xcelus.com

About Channel Compass
Channel Compass is a consulting and training organization that helps companies successfully navigate their channels to market to increase the impact and profitability of your channel through the implementation of best practice business processes. Channel Compass can facilitate increase the mindshare and commitment of the partner by enabling your resources with the right tools and processes for success. http://channelcompass.com

Xcelus produces six online marketing videos for Bidsync’s e-procurement electronic bidding software. The online videos showcase BidSync’s 5 new products that help vendors and suppliers focus on procurement management and opportunities.

The increase of online video popularity is verification that video is a great way for companies to deliver marketing messages. Companies who want to jump ahead of their competition are using online video to inform current customers and attract new clients. Using online videos on a website is no longer optional on a company website.  They are now a necessity because nothing else comes close to the effectiveness and influence of a well produced video.

According to Forrester Research, 71% of today’s online audience already watches Internet video, and the number of video streams consumed should more than double by 2013.http://www.forrester.com/rb/Research/five_rules_to_drive …

“When an online marketing video is produced right, it is an extremely effective tool for company websites to educate and market to their prospects and customers”, said Todd R. Corbett, Founder and CEO of Xcelus, LLC.

For the past 5 years, Xcelus has produced online video for notable clients including Hitachi Data Systems, Life Technologies, Stephen Covey Community, SirsiDynix, Plantronics, and BidSync.Xcelus has earned numerous awards for video production, including three Horizon Interactive Awards for excellence in interactive media production, and multiple Telly Awards, which recognize “the finest video and film productions, and work created for the Web.”

“I have worked with Xcelus on several projects critical to our company.  I keep going back to them instead of the New York firms I’ve usually dealt with because they are much faster and more creative while being cost-efficient.  Xcelus always delivers a great, creative and quality product on-time and on-budget,” said Billy Nerenberg, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for BidSync.

About Xcelus Video

Xcelus, an award-winning visual communications and digital media company, develops innovative and unique online videos, allowing companies to integrate the power and persuasion of video into their training, sales, marketing, and communication strategies. The Xcelus online video platform tools allow companies to manage, deliver and measure video content to meet the needs of today’s business requirements. Xcelus’ video solutions include sales, marketing, customer support, lead generation, recruiting, and employee communications. Xcelus is a private company founded in 2005 and is based in Provo, Utah.

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PROVO, Utah–(BUSINESS WIRE)–June marks the fifth year anniversary of Xcelus, LLC., an award-winning visual communications and digital media company. Half of all businesses never reach this milestone, according to the Small Business Administration.

Xcelus, through its experienced team and national network of development professionals, works with businesses to create, write, and produce high quality video and audio using industry-leading technology to engage and inform target audiences.

“The first five years of any business are challenging,” said Todd Corbett, President of Xcelus. “We not only survived them; we thrived. Xcelus houses some of the best talent in the video and Web industry. Businesses are finding that online rich media content, including video, is critical to generating sales and training employees. With the talent and tools we offer, our role is increasingly important.”

Xcelus has earned numerous awards, including three Horizon Interactive Awards for excellence in interactive media production, and multiple Telly Awards, which recognize “the finest video and film productions, and work created for the Web.” The company has produced video for notable clients including Hitachi, Life Technologies, SirsiDynix, VitalSmarts and Franklin Covey.

Xcelus’ business success is due, in large part, to its foresight. When the company launched in 2005, only 40 percent of American households had a broadband internet connection¹, YouTube was preparing to launch², and Internet ad spending was about $198 million³. Today, about 60 percent of households have a broadband connection⁴, users upload 24 hours of YouTube video per minute⁵, and 2010 Internet ad spending is forecasted to reach $25.1 billion⁶.

About Xcelus

Xcelus develops innovative and unique online videos, allowing companies to integrate the power and persuasion of video into their sales, marketing, and communication strategies. The Xcelus online video platform tools, set to launch in July, will allow companies to manage, deliver and measure video content to meet the needs of today’s business requirements. Xcelus’ video solutions include sales, marketing, customer support, lead generation, recruiting, and employee communications. Xcelus is a private company founded in 2005 and is based in Provo, Utah.

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Xcelus’ online video services for this project included instructional design, script development, motion graphics, video shooting and editing, video compression, online video hosting, and employee tracking and reporting.

“This program showcases our complete eLearning solution”, said Todd Corbett, President of Xcelus, LLC.  ”We have a great team of creative professionals who work together to bring an idea to fruition.”

About Xcelus

Xcelus develops innovative and unique online videos, allowing companies to integrate the power and persuasion of video into their training, sales, marketing, and communication strategies. The Xcelus online video platform tools, set to launch in Q4, will allow companies to manage, deliver and measure video content to meet the needs of today’s business requirements. Xcelus’ video solutions include sales, marketing, customer support, lead generation, recruiting, and employee communications. Xcelus is a private company founded in 2005 and is based in Provo, Utah.

To learn more about Xcelus’ social media training, please visit http://www.xcelus.com/training/compliance

Provo UT – April 1, 2010 Hitachi Data Systems selects Xcelus to produce eLearning sales training video for BladeSymphony.  Xcelus created an animated role play of a successful sales rep teaching a sales peer on how she was successful in selling Hitachi’s BladSymphony product line. The eLearning training video was launched in May 2010.

Provo, UT – March 5, 2010 Xcelus produced the  2010 COSUGI

Conference Highlight video. The 6 minute video captures the highlights of the 3 day conference in Lake Buena Vista, Florida.

“It was a great team effort to finish the video minutes before the conference’s closing session” , said Todd R. Corbett, President of Xcelus, LLC. “It was also our first time using the new Canon 7D camera.”

Xcelus’ team spent 2 days shooting video footage and edited the highlight video the night before the video presentation.

To learn more, please visit www.xcelus.com

“In developing video strategies for clients, we’re always persuading clients that sales and marketing videos should be their best sales person”, said Todd R. Corbett, President of Xcelus, LLC.  “Companies need to make the most of effective new online sales and marketing videos to improve their sales performance”.

The video was premiered at the COSUGI 2010 conference in Orlando.

To learn more, please visit www.xcelus.com

PROVO, UT – January 31, 2010 – Life Technologies, a provider of essential life science technologies for research, production and diagnostics, partners with Xcelus for development of Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and Export Controls e-learning compliance training courses. The  courses will focus on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and Export Controls and will be translated into 10 languages and distributed worldwide via Xcelus’ eLearning hosting platform.

For more information about Xcelus compliance courses, visit http://www.xcelus.com/training/compliance