Inside Showcase Workshop Planner Wars: Paper Planner vs. Digital App Since day 1 of Showcase, our development team (at that point, just 2 people) have insisted upon Moleskine notebooks.No Moleskine, no development.As a note-taker with entirely different preferences, I used to
Customer Examples and Case Studies How Jackson Estate took control of selling their wines globally. “One of the challenges of being a small family-owned winery is that we don’t have the resources and people to compete with the big guys,” says Jeff Hart, Managing Director of the
Customer Examples and Case Studies Design Spotlight: Z Energy When you spend a good chunk of your day talking about an intangible cloud-service like we do, it's really helpful to have examples that bring the details to life.When those examples are
Sales Enablement How to Improve Staff Training and Internal Communications for Bottom-Line Benefits Communication — it’s a beautiful thing. When it’s done well.When multiple departments and individuals coordinate their efforts, they operate more efficiently, save unnecessary effort, and maximize profits.Unfortunately, too many companies
Customer Examples and Case Studies Taming the Wild West of Content to Change the Lives of Service Sector Employees The hard-working team at ServiceIQ has a big job to do upskilling employees in the aviation, hospitality, retail, travel, tourism and museums service sectors of New Zealand. To add to their hefty responsibilities,
Sales & Marketing Articles 4 Steps to Selling Your Big Idea Presenting a new idea isn’t always easy. Whether you’re pitching a fresh idea to your own team, or a new product to a customer — it’s challenging to communicate a new
Inside Showcase Workshop How to raise $1395 in 60 minutes At the beginning of 2018, we set ourselves a goal of contributing funds to plant 1,000 trees through the Showcase Forest Releaf Fund. By November, we’d reached 845 trees, leaving us
Lip Service May Be the Downfall of Your Business Saying the right words isn’t enough to keep you and your organization afloat anymore. For most of us at the leadership level, this is simple truth. Mission, vision, and values have their
Inside Showcase Workshop Witness the Fitness: Our "Showcase Well-Shop Policy" You may have heard the story of Perpetual Guardian recently - The wills, estates and trusts business began a six-week experiment in March by moving from five-day working weeks to four-day weeks. And
An Easy Win for Retail Operations Retail operations leaders might not get all the glory, but boy do they get their share of the big problems. Big in terms of the number of people impacted, and often big in
Inside Showcase Workshop Treehuggers Unite! Our third Forest Releaf Fund contribution was made this week. Collectively we have contributed another 214 trees to restoration projects around New Zealand. That brings us to a total of 640 trees so
Marketing Communications The ONE Decision-Making Trick Every Retail Operations Manager Should Know Tired of your field team emailing the same requests and questions again and again? Find out how two Retail Operations Managers solved this problem for good.
New Features, Release Notes & How-Tos How to Encourage Your Organization to Use Their Apps — Now and Forever Think about the people in your organization six months ago. Are all of the same people still in your organization today? Probably not. Graham retired. Nicola left for a great opportunity at a
Jack Wolbert Saves Puerto Rico (Showcase Advisory Board Spotlight) A note from Showcase Workshop CEO, Millie Blackwell: This is the second post in the Spotlight series, highlighting Showcase’s Advisory Board members. These people are changing the world — not just our company
Advisory Board Spotlight: Mike Bennetts. A note from Showcase Workshop CEO, Millie Blackwell: The Showcase Advisory Board is unlike any other board at any other company in the world. And that’s exactly how we designed it. At
Inside Showcase Workshop It's Arbor Day Ladies & Gents! If you're in the US like me, you've probably been at the gym all weekend attempting to recover from Friday's National Donut Day. But recognising the calendar day officially dedicated to trees is
Marketing Communications What’s the Difference Between SharePoint and Showcase? “What’s the difference between SharePoint and Showcase Workshop?” It’s a question we get all too often. Though from our point of view, SharePoint and Showcase are two very different beasts, they
Inside Showcase Workshop Forest Releaf Fund Update - Q2 2018 Easter eggs and short months appear to be no real barrier to you guys making winning sales presentations and keeping your retail teams fully updated with your latest and greatest promo information. Between
Inside Showcase Workshop Stories from the 2018 Trade Show Tour This spring, I went on a whirlwind five-week tour of trade shows as a representative of Showcase Workshop. Not only did I learn some “tricks” to getting better results at trade shows, but
Why Our American Copywriter Thinks We’re Crazy In recent years here at Showcase, we’ve doubled our effort to become a bigger player in the U.S. marketplace. From a business standpoint, most of our peers have applauded us for
Release Notes Behind the Scenes: Showcase Workshop + Apple … Happily Ever After? One of our top priorities as a company is to make our product as useful and valuable to our customers as humanly possible. Sometimes, though, the owners of the technology platforms on which
Sales & Marketing Articles What to Expect After You Close an Enterprise Deal As a small business, you might feel like throwing a party after closing your first few deals with large organizations. And you should! You’ve navigated some challenging circumstances to get here. But
Sales & Marketing Articles Mastering the Scariest Conversation of All: The Price Discussion Here’s the bad news about price discussions with large and enterprise companies: These conversations can be nerve-wracking and sometimes downright brutal. Here’s the good news: You’ll flourish as a small
Sales & Marketing Articles Understanding Reporting Lines and How to Work With Them In previous posts in the Small Fish, Big Fish series, we’ve talked about the fact that there is almost always more than one buyer inside a large or enterprise organization. Even if
Sales & Marketing Articles Words of Wisdom: What to Say (and NOT Say) in an Enterprise Sales Meeting Many small-business owners confess to me that they’re worried they’ll say the wrong thing and totally blow that first sales meeting with a prospect from a large or enterprise company. In
