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Rave Reviews Most of these reviews are for my e-book, "Dashboard Reporting With Excel." Others are for my dashboard templates.(In these reviews, "Dashboard Kit" refers to the e-book. So does "PDF", because the e-book is delivered as an Adobe Acrobat file. "PNP" and "Plug-N-Play" refer to one of my dashboard template products. And finally, where no product is mentioned, users of both the e-book and templates often are referring to my dashboard products in general.) As you glance through these reviews, notice how diverse the users are. The sizes of their company and industry vary widely. So do users' job titles and even their countries. Excel dashboards really are for any Excel user in business. Charley Kyd |
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"You made me look like a superstar with this. Nice work." |
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"I purchased the Dashbord Kit and I think it’s brilliant. It offers clear and precise advice for practical purposes." |
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| 3 | "We are using the dashboards to daily track three key productivity measures at team levels. This allows us to perform visual trending analysis very, very quickly and determine if or where we might need to refocus our attention. "Typically, these measures would have been reviewed at month-end, so having this capability keeps us from potentially wasting 1/12th of a year before we identify potential unfavorable trends. "Needless to say, our Management Team loves these dashboards!" |
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| 4 | "You're my hero! This is incredibly slick. I'm an independent consultant, and this should WOW a lot of clients." |
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"Thank You -- "You’ve allowed me to WOW my boss by automating a lot of our invoice processing and all I had to do was cut and paste my info over yours in the data sheet. "You saved me many hours of work and tons of frustration." |
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| 6 | "I learned more from your excel dashboards pdf in 1 day, then I learned in months at investment banking and management consulting." |
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| 7 | "I purchased your dashboard reports and have used them with great success at my former job. The reports are easy to use and really turn heads and drop jaws in meetings. "I have just changed companies and would like another copy of the dashboard reports sent to my home email address." |
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| 8 | "Your e book is FANTASTIC!!! The techniques informed by you really break everything down to simple easy to understand steps, besides enhancing my knowledge of Excel (never heard of the camera tool before). "With just an initial reading (and cannibalizing from your dashboard!), I created a dummy dashboard in 2 days, which I have attached herewith in PDF format. "I look forward to the detailed reading regarding setting up and connecting to databases, after which I am sure I will be able to create more effective reports." |
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"...one of the most useful tools in my Excel tool belt. I have built several dashboards that had a positive impact on my career. Thank you!" |
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"EXCELLENT! "Thank you for putting together a fabulous tool. Wow! Wow!" |
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"Thank god I found this great tool on the web. Definitely a must have!" |
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"Fabulous. Simply fabulous. |
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"All I can say is Wow! This is amazing! I have done dashboards before but never like these." |
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"I think it's brilliant! It is unique in unleashing some real power from Excel without programming." |
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"I purchased your product and have found it immensely valuable." |
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"I recently acquired your Dashboard kit and find it loaded with useful tips. You have designed a very nice, very helpful tool." |
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| 17 | "Your product is heaven-sent. I have been given the task to create a usable dashboard for our HR dept. This will allow me to complete that task! Thanks!" |
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"I love what you did with Excel. Please keep me informed if you come up with something new." |
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"I bought your e-book, "Dashboard Reporting With Excel" last year – a fantastic purchase!" |
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"Thanks for revolutionizing the way I process and present month-end data and results. "Buying your e-book was the best thing I've done for myself in a long, long time. I've forced our CIO to purchase it as well." |
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"What a great book! "Now I can apply my newfound charting skills to quickly create dashboards on how my trust line of business is performing." |
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| 22 | "I love your dashboards!" |
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| 23 | "We love your e-book and have deployed a good number of dashboard using it !!! Our Clients think we are gods ... " |
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"A godsend! I wish I had purchased your ebook a lot sooner." |
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"I downloaded the Plug N Play this morning and printed out my first scorecard this afternoon. "The product works flawlessly! Thanks so much for developing this wonderful file. "It makes my heart sing!" |
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| 26 | "I love the product!" |
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| 27 | "Thank you so much for your Excel dashboard books, work files, and articles. "I’ve been working with spreadsheets since Visicalc on an Apple IIe. Your resources have opened up a completely new level of usage that I had never thought of." |
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"The book is a joy! Your writing is simple, elegant, and clear. So mahalo nui loa, as we say in Hawai`i – thank you for your very great effort." |
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"I purchased your book and it has been an awesome tool. I was made aware of your resources while I was earning my MBA. I'm so glad I saved that link because this material is helping me complete this high profile task." |
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"All I can say is fabulous! It's unbelievable what I have been missing for years. "The Camera functionality alone makes the small cost of your book and files worth every penny and more. "Excellent, many thanks." |
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"Your book was of immense help to me. I produce dashboards on a regular basis in my life as a CFO and generally have reduced time in spreadsheet hell." |
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"I purchased the Dashbord Kit and I think it’s brilliant. It offers clear and precise advice for practical purposes." |
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"We'll need to train the different levels of management before we distribute our dashboards. Most of them hate this, of course, because with limited reports they were not held accountable for results. Now they will be, and their bonus will be tied to the results achieved and measured. "You have no idea how much your publication "Dashboard Reporting with Excel" has helped me and my clients." |
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"Great book! You clearly have been working with Excel for a long time." |
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"Thanks for the opportunity to buy your book. I thought I knew a lot about charts. I program extensively in Excel, but your book shows how much I didn't know. I have seen tips in your book that I have never seen in countless manuals I have purchased over the years." |
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"I wanted to let you know that the product has been extremely helpful in implementing a new dashboard tool for our department. I've been an Excel user for over 7 years and the info in your manual has enlighten me many times over." |
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"The dashboard e-book is absolutely awesome! "I didn’t realize Excel could do what I wanted it do! "I’ve started setting up our dashboards to update the look of our annual report." |
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"With your help and the information in your eBook, I’m creating a dashboard report the likes of which my company has never seen. I’m sure I’ll get lots of questions and this will give me a ton of visibility in the organization." |
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"I purchased your Dashboard this week and can say that
it's the best ever!!! |
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"I purchased your book this morning! Love it!" |
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"Bought the book and the files. So far, wow-wee!" |
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"Your book (or the results thereof) has made a big splash here at the office." |
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"An excellent book! Well worth the money. "It has saved me vast amounts of time." |
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"I purchased your ebook and find it fascinating!" |
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"I am just writing to tell you about how helpful your book has been... "I am sending you the advance I have achieved so far. The report is incomplete because all the information for it is still being generated. But I wanted to share it with you... "Your book is well written and very clear on every explanation." |
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"Let me start off by thanking you for putting together this package - it has a plethora of useful tips and information!" |
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"I'm reading your book and I'm amazed because it's unique. I didn't think that in the ocean of Excel books around I can find something I never read before." |
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"I purchased your Dashboard Reporting With Excel last night and found it full of stimulating and practical ideas." |
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"Your eBook is an awesome tool. I've been reading this every day and building some great dashboards from your examples." |
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"Excellent product!
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"Thank you very much for the dashboard package. It is absolutely brilliant! I have been an Excel business user for many years and have learnt more from your publication than from any of the courses that I have attended." |
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"Just wanted to let you know that between the book and the files we bought I have really ramped up my Excel skills and made some tricky reports a breeze!" |
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"Your book is excellent. It offers clear and precise advice for practical purposes. It is highly recommended." |
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"The book is fabulous!" |
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"By the way, your book was excellent. Thanks for sharing your thoughts and insights." |
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"Your dashboard kit is excellent." |
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"...the best 50 bucks I've ever spent. I am absolutely pleased. I would recommend it to anyone just for the charting tips!" |
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"I bought your book recently and I must say it's fun and a pleasure to read and to work with." |
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"Your E-Book is amazing. I consider myself an Excel expert, but I have already picked up a few items I was not aware of and I have only read the first three chapters. I expect to purchase more of your e-books for my finance team. This book is better than any Excel class I have ever taken!" |
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"I love the product! The dashboards are great and the book is very helpful and well written." |
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"I find the book to be vastly better than I had anticipated and easily of higher caliber than a lot of the books on Excel that can be found at the local bookstore chains." |
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"Charley Kyd's e-book is an unbelievable value for the price I paid. "I've seen bonehead, half-baked programs & reporting modules for which my Fortune 200 company has paid consultants and programmers hundreds of thousands of dollars. But they can't do half the great things that Charley's ideas deliver. "They're fully customizable, fully adaptable to your business...the way you need your information. "The key to great business decisions is the management and reporting of data. Charley provides the "great reporting" part. "With fantastic and simple visuals to help the mind grasp the numeric trends, Charley's work turns my data into a gold mine." |
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"The book has been great, & has given me a lot of ideas about how I could use dashboards to present a mix of financial and statistical data." |
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"Thought I'd send you a quick email to update you on my progress with dashboards. "It must be well over 2 years since I bought your ebook & samples. At the time I was engineering manager for Vitafibres in the UK (I think one of my comments is still on your website somewhere!). "I still think
that dashboard reports are
one of the neatest things I've ever done in
Excel. Initially, I was using a dashboard to report energy usage for monthly
management meetings. I followed on from that by using them to create PPM & TPM summary reports. In all these areas the use of
dashboards saved me hours
& hours of time every month. "Currently I'm working
on an Excel application to carry out some detailed energy saving analysis.
This application has a lot of VBA code behind it, but I intend to use a
dashboard for the summary section of the customer report. I think that the
main thing that I've learned over the past couple of years is that
you don't need to be a genius or
an excel guru to create dashboards, but the applications are almost
limitless. "No comment was made during the meeting, but afterwards the
divisional director of the Fibres division came up to me and said something
along the lines of ' that report was excellent, it summarized all the energy
usage in a clear & readable manner, and now I can get a real feel for our
energy usage & expenditure.....but that report must have taken you hours to
produce'........well ok it took me 4 days to create the template, but I
didn't tell him that producing the report just took me just the time it
takes to click 'print'! |
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