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 •
184 posts •

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

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    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
Sales & Marketing Articles

Battle of the Video Calling Platforms: Going Old-School with Skype

So, dear reader, you want to learn how to present with Skype? Well, you’re in luck! You’ve stumbled across the latest in our series about using popular video calling platforms to

  • Millie Blackwell
    Millie Blackwell
16 min read

VIP Pass vs Email vs Link Sharing: What's Our Favorite Sharing Option?

You’ve probably seen our most recent sharing option, VIP Pass [https://blog.showcaseworkshop.com/vip-pass/], floating around. It’s a pretty big deal here at the Showcase office. But what about our

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    Millie Blackwell
4 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

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    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 [https://blog.showcaseworkshop.com/tag/

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

Battle of the Video Calling Platforms: Let’s Meet Google Meet

Welcome back to our series all about using popular video calling platforms to make remote sales presentations [https://blog.showcaseworkshop.com/tag/battle-of-the-video-calling-platforms/]. If you missed our first instalment about how to present

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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

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    Millie Blackwell
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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'

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    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

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

Stick a Label On It: How Slide Labels Can Help Your Sales Team

A short and sweet update on using Slide Labels to make your presentation searchable on the go. Showcase Workshop's recent update lets Admin and Editor users name individual slides in a

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    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 [https://www.forbes.com/sites/lisaarthur/2012/02/08/five-years-from-now-cmos-will-spend-more-on-it-than-cios-do/#6ecee37716a3] something surprising. By 2017, CMOs would spend more on IT than CIOs did. The IT crowd scoffed.

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    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

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    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

Pitch It, Share It, Track It: Selling Remotely with Showcase Workshop

Right now, selling and buying face-to-face isn't an option. But guess what? Showcase is designed to take your presentations anywhere — including the comfort of your own home! Showcase works just as

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    Millie Blackwell
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    Nicky
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Sales & Marketing Articles

How to Launch and Sell When Trade Shows are Cancelled

With non-essential travel and large gatherings restricted, hundreds — possibly thousands — of business conferences, expos, and trade shows have been cancelled for 2020 or rescheduled for later in the year.  And while this has

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    Millie Blackwell
4 min read
Inside Showcase Workshop

Forest Releaf Fund Update: The One Where Nature Keeps on Keeping On

My social media of choice is Instagram. Over the last few weeks, I've noticed a recurring commentary among my friends and family on that platform — and among the social chatter on

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    Millie Blackwell
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Customer Examples & Case Studies

Going Green with Green Gorilla

At Showcase, we’re big on helping our customers green things up a bit, so we were especially excited to work with Green Gorilla [https://www.greengorilla.co.nz/], a recycling and waste

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    Millie Blackwell
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Using Downtime to Revisit 3 Essentials for Being Great in Sales

Yus! I finally get to write a high-seas themed blog post. There's a bucket list item checked off.As sales people we're fishermen and fisherwomen of sorts, and right

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

Two Exciting New Design Features to Make Your Showcase Stand Out

Buckle your seatbelts, because we’ve got two exciting design updates that we think you’re going to love! Go forth and update your Showcase apps so you can make full use of

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    Millie Blackwell
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New Features, Release Notes & How-Tos

More Data in Your Day-to-Day: Useful Updates to File and Sharing Analytics in Showcase

We've made a couple of tweaks to the Reporting function in Showcase, to make it even easier to see file and sharing analytics. You're welcome! 1. File Analytics The

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

You Can Share Your Own Way: Link-Based Sharing is Here

Time to update your Showcase apps, because we've got a host of recently-released features to share with you over the next few weeks — starting with the ability to share presentations via

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    Millie Blackwell
3 min read
Sales & Marketing Articles

3 Reasons Agri-Businesses Need Sales Organization Tools

Let’s call a spade a spade: businesses in the agricultural products and services industry are often focused on practicality, tradition, and building relationships for the long term, and their sales processes reflect

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    Millie Blackwell
3 min read

Lighten Up the Sales Process With Humour. GIFs & Memes Optional.

Sales is a Serious Business.  Without sales, your business doesn't exist. But what if it didn't actually have to be so... serious? Even though sales is a serious job,

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

Export Sales Presentations from PowerPoint and Convert to Showcase

If you’re ready to move to Showcase for all your sales presentations — but your existing materials are in PowerPoint — you’ll be happy to know it’s easy to export sales presentations

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    Millie Blackwell
4 min read
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