Inside Showcase Workshop PowerPoint vs. Showcase: The Ultimate Presentation Software Faceoff When you hear the words “presentation software,” what’s the first thing that comes to mind? If you said “PowerPoint, of course!”, you wouldn’t be alone (and don’t worry, we love
Marketing Communications Do You Know How Your Sales Team Is Using Your Marketing Content? (You Might Have a Gap) Here at Showcase, we love data. In fact, geeking out on analytics is one of our favorite pastimes. #nerds And as digital marketing becomes ever more data-driven, we feel for those marketers who
Inside Showcase Workshop A Treemendous Forest Releaf Fund Update + A Giveaway Ladies & Gents! You just added another 215 trees to planet Earth, thanks to your ongoing Showcase Workshop usage from 1 May through 31 July. During this period, you viewed 1,832,396
Sales & Marketing Articles Are Meetings Killing Your Productivity? They Don’t Have To You can't run a business without meetings. But here at Showcase, we at least try to keep meetings to a minimum. Many of us came from the corporate world, and we know instinctively
Sales Presentations Going Paperless? Here Are 5 Steps for a Smooth Transition I’ve written before about all the great reasons to go paperless — in fact, preserving trees is a cause that’s very close to our hearts here at Showcase. Fortunately, technology is making
Sales & Marketing Articles How to Work on the Road WITHOUT Losing Your Mind Life on the road and working remotely isn't for everyone. Even if you’re not factoring in a family, constant travel can be hard on your mindset and productivity. While there’s this
Inside Showcase Workshop What Software Developers and Marie Kondo Taught Me About Planning Here’s something you may not know: developing software is a very creative.But developers are not generally included with artists and writers in the category of “creative types?” I have a theory
Sales & Marketing Articles Your Planner Type: Are you a visual planner or a list planner? The SaaS space has boomed in the last few years with new planning apps designed to work for just about anyone’s planning style. In fact, software companies are making huge strides in
Customer Examples and Case Studies Mitsubishi Motors Revs Up Their Showcase My awesome husband and I have worked together in business for 15 years, and lived together for almost 10. We’re familiar with how the other person interacts with human beings - clients,
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
