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What are differences between data, reporting, and insights?

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What are differences between data, reporting, and insights?

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What are differences between data, reporting, and insights?

It’s important to understand the differences between data, reporting and insights:

Data is raw information, reporting is summarizing data, and insights are meaningful interpretations. In the world of data, it’s crucial to understand the distinction between these terms.

  • Data is the raw material
  • Reporting is the process of organizing and presenting it
  • Insights are the valuable conclusions drawn from the data

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SlideFill allows you and your team to save hours creating data-driven personalized content at scale!

SlideFill is a platform allowing you to connect data from Google Sheets in order to create Google Presentations and other data-driven content at scale.

The software will help you to:

Sales: Create thousands of personalized client presentations with automatic data insert in seconds and close more deals with your top performing clients

Revenue Operations: Refresh data-driven weekly business reviews decks with up to date metrics and reduce the cost of your reporting team.

Case Studies: Produce success stories showcasing best practices and results in a few clicks and build stronger relationships by highlighting client success.

Marketing: Tailor marketing content with audience specific data and resonate with your target market based on their demographics.

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Why is SlideFill free?2023-12-26T10:29:30+00:00

SlideFill is currently 100% free and will remain free for as long as possible. Currently, SlideFill has no intention to become a paid service.

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Who is behind SlideFill?2024-03-26T02:31:31+00:00

SlideFill is a San Francisco based company. The company was founded in 2023 with the goal to make Revenue Operations and the creation of presentations easier. The most common use cases of SlideFill are: creating scaled sales material, producing marketing content in bulk, automatically refreshing business reviews and highlighting customer success cases. 

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Why do I need to link my Google Account?2023-12-26T10:32:28+00:00

SlideFill allows you to connect Google Sheets to Google Presentations. In order to do so, the software needs access to your Google Account and Google Drive. SlideFill will take data from your Google Sheets and will create new presentations from your slide deck template.

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Can I request more features?2024-03-25T09:46:05+00:00

It is possible to request more in-depth use cases and features through our support page.

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How many case studies can I create?2023-12-26T10:52:58+00:00

SlideFill is 100% free and there is no limit on the amount of case studies you can create. You can for example create hundreds of case studies for different industries or demographics. You can also easily request your customers to fill in a couple of questions via a Google Form and use the data directly from Google Sheets in order to generate data-driven success stories.

It’s important to use the right success story to convince the right client, by using a success story which resonates with their demographics.

Case studies are also not limited in terms of number of slides or variables. Your presentation can be as long as you want (contain unlimited slides) and slides can contain as many parameters as you need.

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How SlideFill saves time for Revops teams?2023-12-26T10:31:25+00:00

SlideFill saves time for Revops or Revenue Operations teams by automating the process of refreshing business review decks and producing customer facing marketing, inspirational or sales content. This allows teams to focus on analyzing the data and deriving actionable insights, rather than spending valuable time on manual content creation and updates.

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How can I give feedback?2024-03-25T10:40:41+00:00

At SlideFill we truly appreciate your feedback. Our product is free and we are building to learn what works and what doesn’t.

In order to be able to continue doing so, we need feedback from our users.

If you want to provide feedback, feature requests or report a bug, you can do that via our support page and we will be extremely grateful.

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How SlideFill benefits businesses in Revops?2023-12-26T10:32:13+00:00

SlideFill benefits businesses by offering a free solution to refresh business review decks with up-to-date metrics, produce case studies showcasing best practices, and tailor marketing content with audience-specific data. This can save time, reduce costs, and help businesses resonate with their target market. By leveraging SlideFill, businesses can efficiently create personalized content at scale, ultimately enhancing their revenue-generating processes.

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How should my Google Sheet look like?2024-03-26T02:30:23+00:00

SlideFill analysis your Google Sheet or Spreadsheet in order to decide which information to add to your slides:

  • First row: The first row or headers of your columns are used in order to identify the parameters you used in your slide deck. For example, when the column header is “Company”, the parameter in your presentation should be {{Company}}
  • Subsequent rows: The subsequent rows are the data we will populate in your presentations. Every row will create one new presentation with all the data for which a parameter exists on that row.

For more information on how SlideFill works we refer to the “How It Works” page.

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How should my Google Presentation look like?2024-03-26T02:29:52+00:00

You can design your Google Presentation (slides) exactly like you want! SlideFill will not impact the look and feel of your work.

In your presentations you should put SlideFill parameters, for example: {{Company}}

This parameter will be used to push the data from your Google Sheets column with the same name – in this case: Company

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Is SlideFill safe and secure?2024-03-25T09:44:08+00:00

SlideFill is 100% safe and secure. The application is verified and approved by Google’s strict policies. The most important note is that no data is stored on SlideFill, this also means no data can leak through SlideFill. All your data, including your input data, your presentation template and your created presentations are stored on your own Google Drive.

  • Security: Logging in to the platform is possible via your own credentials or directly through your Google account. When setting up your account, you will need to give permission to access the content you want to use from your Google Drive. We never change files on your Google Drive, we only create new ones based upon your input. For more information: read our terms of service.
  • Privacy: Your data is always yours. While we read your data in order to generate presentations, the data is not stored on our platform. This means that all data is only passed through SlideFill in order to replace your placeholders, without us having visibility on your data or storing it in a database. There is no one on the team of SlideFill with the ability to see your data. For more information: read our privacy policy.

You can find more high level information on our “Privacy and Data” page.

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Who can make success stories?2023-12-26T10:52:53+00:00

If you are looking to decide who can make success stories, you either have the option to:

  • Centralize the creation of all presentations, where one individual makes case studies at scale for your whole organization. This has a couple of benefits such as:
    • Global scale
    • Brand consistency
  • Give access to every team member to create case studies via SlideFill. The benefits of individual access are:
    • Local customization
    • Increased relevancy
    • Elevated velocity

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How much is the cost of SlideFill?2023-12-27T19:10:06+00:00

SlideFill is 100% free. There is no cost for using SlideFill. Users are able to create an unlimited amount of presentations from Google Sheets. Power users creating more than >100 presentations, might receive an email in order to understand better their use case and get access to specific bulk options.

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What’s the price of Matik.io?2023-12-26T10:29:53+00:00

While Matik.io is one of our competitors, we still want to help you out. The Matik.io Price starts at $50 dollar per user per month. This will allow you to:

  • Generate 5 presentations per month
  • Give access to 5 users
  • Use unlimited data sources such as Salesforce, Amazon Redshift, etc.
  • Use unlimited templates
  • Use conditional slides

Our price is $0, albeit for now with less data connectors.

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How much marketing content can I create?2023-12-26T10:54:27+00:00

SlideFill is 100% free and there is no limit on the amount of marketing content you can create. You can for example download create 10,000 personalized data-driven follow ups for your marketing events or hundreds of newsletter attachment tailored to every single client in three clicks.

Marketing content is also not limited in terms of number of slides or variables. Your presentation can be as long as you want (contain unlimited slides) and slides can contain as many parameters as you need.

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How many sales presentations can I create?2023-12-26T10:56:04+00:00

SlideFill is 100% free and there is no limit on the amount of sales presentations you can create. You can for example download 10,000 records from your CRM and create a unique pitch deck for every single client on the list in three clicks.

Sales presentations are also not limited in terms of number of slides or variables. Your presentation can be as long as you want (contain unlimited slides) and slides can contain as many parameters as you need.

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What software do you need to create content?2024-03-27T05:33:44+00:00

You don’t need any additional software in order to create automatic sales presentations, marketing content or case studies at scale with SlideFill.

You only need:

  • Google Sheets: host your data in Google Sheets. The data will be used in order to populate the placeholders on the presentation templates. The headers of the columns are necessary in order to map your Google Sheet data to the presentation template. Every row in your Google Sheet will create one unique presentation. There are no limits in terms of data points, columns or rows.
  • Google Slides: create a presentation template with placeholders. The placeholders should be based upon your column headers. If you have a column header “Company” the placeholder in your presentation should be {{company}}. Make sure to put the placeholder on every slide where you want to populate data. There are no limits in terms of placeholders or slides.
  • SlideFill: magic happens on SlideFill. SlideFill will map your fields and datapoints coming from your Google Sheet to the placeholders in your Google Presentation template. In three simple steps, you will be able to create an unlimited amount of new presentations with your data filled in.

Make sure to read “How it works” for more details.

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Who can make sales presentations?2023-12-26T10:55:59+00:00

If you are looking to decide who can make sales presentations, you either have the option to:

  • Centralize the creation of all presentations, where one individual makes presentations for your whole sales organization. This has a couple of benefits such as:
    • Global scale
    • Brand consistency
  • Give access to every sales team member to create sales presentations at scale via SlideFill. The benefits of individual access are:
    • Local customization
    • Increased relevancy
    • Elevated velocity

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Who can make marketing content?2023-12-26T10:54:22+00:00

If you are looking to decide who can make marketing content, you either have the option to:

  • Centralize the creation of all presentations, where one individual makes presentations for your whole marketing organization. This has a couple of benefits such as:
    • Global scale
    • Brand consistency
  • Give access to every marketing team member to create marketing presentations at scale via SlideFill. The benefits of individual access are:
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    • Elevated velocity

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What happens with my data on SlideFill?2023-12-26T12:03:51+00:00

SlideFill does not store any data that is used through our integrations. Data is read from Google Sheets and Google Presentations are created with the data you provide. The data itself only lives in your Google Drive. No data is stored on SlideFill’s servers. After running the creation, customization or update of your presentations, data is not retained. SlideFill uses minimum API scopes and is verified by Google’s safety team.

Profile data is provided by the user in their ‘Profile’ section. Users can delete their account, which automatically deletes their data.

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