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Millie Blackwell

Millie Blackwell

Millie Blackwell is the CEO and Co-Founder of Showcase Workshop. She shares her thoughts about sales enablement and digital presentations. After hours she's a pencil and cycling enthusiast.

Wellington, New Zealand •
141 posts •

Is the Time for Quiet at an End?

The shutdown and business-as-usual related to the COVID-19 pandemic has been challenging in lots of ways. But like a lot of introverts, I’ve also experienced some really positive outcomes. For example … The

  • Millie Blackwell
    Millie Blackwell
5 min read
Sales Enablement

Get more leads with a mail-to link

At Showcase, we want our users to have the best experience possible. In fact, we encourage customers to build interactive, user-friendly presentations that keep prospects and team members engaged. One way to do

  • Millie Blackwell
    Millie Blackwell
3 min read
Sales Presentations

5 Ways a Sales Enablement App Improves Medical Device Sales

5 Ways a Sales Enablement App Improves Medical Device Sales

  • Millie Blackwell
    Millie Blackwell
3 min read
New Features

Choose your own adventure with custom navigation buttons

Showcase has lots of hidden features but perhaps the most secretive is the ability to create your own Back, Home, and Share buttons. Find out more in this post.

  • Millie Blackwell
    Millie Blackwell
3 min read
Marketing Communications

Design a slide once and link to it from multiple places

Showcase presentations are designed to be interactive — a far cry from the linear slideshows of yore. You can create multiple links to the same slide, keeping your Editing screen streamlined and easy to manage. This will make updating your presentation a breeze!

  • Millie Blackwell
    Millie Blackwell
2 min read
Marketing Communications

Send presentation updates to your team straight from Showcase

When you update your presentations in Showcase, you (quite rightly) want to tell the world about it. Or, at least, your team. With our Email Users feature, Admins and Editors can send a single email to everyone with access to a specific presentation.

  • Millie Blackwell
    Millie Blackwell
2 min read
New Features

Stop swiping and start scrolling

With Showcase, you can create a simple linear presentation — like the PowerPoints you made in middle school — or a more interactive presentation that lets you jump to a different slide with the tap of a button.

  • Millie Blackwell
    Millie Blackwell
2 min read
New Features

How to share your best content from your... email signature?

Recently, one of our customers implemented our VIP Pass feature in such an ingenious way that we had to share it (pun intended).

  • Millie Blackwell
    Millie Blackwell
3 min read
New Features, Release Notes & How-Tos

Workshop settings you may not know about

When was the last time you checked your Workshop Settings in Showcase Workshop? Been a while? Never heard of these magical settings? No idea what a “workshop” even is? Ok, let's go!

  • Millie Blackwell
    Millie Blackwell
6 min read
Sales & Marketing Articles

Getting the Most ROI From Your Content

You’ve probably heard that “content is king” when it comes to online marketing. While that’s often true, it can be easy to fall down the rabbit hole of creating content but

  • Millie Blackwell
    Millie Blackwell
5 min read
Customer Examples & Case Studies

Bundling up Business Tools in Creative Combos

By Adam Blackwell, CEO, Stun Enterprise clients love it when their agencies bring them simple, easy to use solutions to everyday problems. Not every innovation you bring to them has to create a

  • Millie Blackwell
    Millie Blackwell
3 min read

The Magic of Bullet Journaling: Organize Your Life with Pen and Paper

There are roughly a gazillion (we counted) different types of planners, calendars, diaries, apps, and tools out there to help you get organized. But it turns out that whatever tool you choose, it

  • Millie Blackwell
    Millie Blackwell
5 min read

Improve Your SEO to Get Your Content Seen

There are many different elements that affect your website's ability to show up on Google when people are searching for products and services that you offer. Broadly speaking, improving those elements is known

  • Millie Blackwell
    Millie Blackwell
5 min read
Sales & Marketing Articles

Using Video to Drive Engagement on LinkedIn

With over 610 million members, LinkedIn is where it's at for professionals and B2B companies looking to grow and advance. The networking site has 303 million active monthly users, 40% of whom visit

  • Millie Blackwell
    Millie Blackwell
4 min read
Sales & Marketing Articles

Ultimate Sales Follow-Up Email Templates

You got the meeting, booked the call, created the Showcase presentation, and delivered your message to the prospective client… Now what? Now we enter the art of the follow up. Research shows that

  • Millie Blackwell
    Millie Blackwell
13 min read

Effective Presentation Skills

There are many different reasons or occasions when you might need to give an effective presentation, whether you’re a sales person trying to close your next deal, a manager hoping to inspire

  • Millie Blackwell
    Millie Blackwell
19 min read
Sales & Marketing Articles

5 Ways to Boost Sales in Your Freight Forwarding Business With a Sales Presentation Tool

The freight forwarding industry is a fast-moving business (pun intended!) with plenty of competition. Most companies are looking for a way to create stronger relationships with potential customers from the first interaction, close

  • Millie Blackwell
    Millie Blackwell
3 min read

Margins Podcast + Showcase Workshop

During lockdown I went on a podcast binge, but unlike other forms of bingeing — looking at you Netflix and Whittakers — I came away feeling better for it. I found podcasts that: Are made

  • Millie Blackwell
    Millie Blackwell
4 min read
Sales & Marketing Articles

Battle of the Video Calling Platforms: How to Present with GoToMeeting

Well hello there. I decided to take my turn contributing to our series of in depth guides to using popular video calling platforms to make remote sales presentations. Back in the early 2010s,

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    Millie Blackwell
16 min read

The Green Side of Showcase: 5 Features That Keep Your Carbon Footprint Small

Here at Showcase, we’re pretty ecologically minded. In fact, one of the major benefits our clients find when they switch to Showcase is that they can go practically paper free — a huge

  • Millie Blackwell
    Millie Blackwell
3 min read
New Features, Release Notes & How-Tos

Introducing: VIP Pass

VIP Pass is our latest feature to help you get your sales presentations out into the world. It's currently only available on the web version of Showcase Workshop but we'll be rolling it

  • Millie Blackwell
    Millie Blackwell
4 min read

5 Tips to Audit and Update Your Sales Materials in Showcase Workshop

With many of us working from home and some business on hold, you may find that you have a little unexpected downtime on your hands. It’s a perfect time to do some

  • Millie Blackwell
    Millie Blackwell
4 min read
Sales & Marketing Articles

Is Your Martech Stack Helping or Hurting Your Ability to Demonstrate ROI?

Several years ago, Gartner predicted something surprising. By 2017, CMOs would spend more on IT than CIOs did. The IT crowd scoffed. Marketing leaders shuddered. Still, in 2017, that prediction came to pass.

  • Millie Blackwell
    Millie Blackwell
4 min read

Help Yourself to our Free Digital Contact Tracing Form

New Zealand moves to Alert Level 3 at 11.59pm on Monday 27 April and many businesses will begin the process of returning to something like normal the following day. As part of

  • Millie Blackwell
    Millie Blackwell
4 min read

Using Showcase to Update Your Team

You may be familiar with Showcase Workshop as a sales enablement tool that your team can use to share presentations, digital brochures, videos, animations, calculators, forms, and more with prospects. But did you

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    Millie Blackwell
3 min read
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