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 •

Where Does New Zealand Stand on Protecting Trees?

One of the big benefits of using Showcase for your sales and marketing materials is the resources you’ll save by not using printed materials any more. In fact, we’ve made saving

  • Millie Blackwell
    Millie Blackwell
7 min read
Sales Presentations

How to Easily Collect Contact Info at a Trade Show (No Clipboard or Data Entry Required!)

Picture this: You’re at a trade show, wandering the isles, when you come upon the booth of a fairly interesting looking vendor. As you learn a little bit about their widgets, you

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

10 Reasons to Stop Spending Marketing Budget on Printed Materials

Sticking with print because it always worked before is like insisting that you don’t need a website because the yellow pages always worked in the past. Here's our guide to the top 10 reasons to stop spending marketing budget on print.

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

Seamlessly Deliver Your Sales Presentation Using an iPad App

Imagine every person on your sales team being able to deliver a perfect sales presentation — on the fly — anywhere, any time. No need to worry about plugs or dongles, no need to print

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

ClearSlide vs. Showcase Workshop: A Comparison of Presentation Tools

We know how vital it is to be able to share marketing and sales materials with prospects quickly and easily — that’s why we built Showcase. But we also know that there’s

  • Millie Blackwell
    Millie Blackwell
5 min read
Sales Presentations

Canva vs. Showcase: Where the Similarities Start (and End)

With Canva being the go-to choice for so many marketers these days, I often get asked this question: Why can’t I just use Canva to do what I do in Showcase? I

  • Millie Blackwell
    Millie Blackwell
6 min read
Inside Showcase Workshop

We've given $10,000 and planted another 1002 trees.

A round up of Showcase Workshop's Forest Releaf Fund efforts in 2019 as well as the best tree related links from around the web.

  • Millie Blackwell
    Millie Blackwell
2 min read
Sales Presentations

Dropbox vs. Showcase: Sharing Files is Just the Start

[January 2021 update] From 31 January 2021, Dropbox will shut down Dropbox Showcase [https://help.dropbox.com/files-folders/share/showcase] for all users. If you want to migrate to a different Showcase before

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    Millie Blackwell
7 min read

The Importance of Consistent Branding in Your Sales Presentations

In our digital age, content is flowing nonstop. For large companies with many departments and locations, controlling the flow of content and maintaining consistent branding can be a nightmare. Your company’s brand

  • Millie Blackwell
    Millie Blackwell
5 min read
Sales Presentations

3 Ways Presentations Can Help Financial Planners Close the Sale

One of the most popular ways for financial services sales agents to market themselves is by presenting seminars, workshops, or “lunch and learn” events — and with good reason. These types of events put

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    Millie Blackwell
4 min read
Sales & Marketing Articles

Share Marketing Files During Sales Meetings Without Interruption

I'm about to date myself here, but raise your (virtual) hand if you remember how hard it used to be to share files between different programs and computers. A Word document

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    Millie Blackwell
3 min read

How to Launch Showcase to New Users in Your Organization.

I've had my sticky beak in several client launches the past few weeks. Somewhere along the line it occurred to me that I was repeating myself - rewriting the exact same

  • Millie Blackwell
    Millie Blackwell
6 min read
Marketing Communications

Share Your Retail Merchandising Planograms Across Store Locations with Showcase

Imagine, if you will, trying to plan out the merchandising for a nationwide retail chain with tens of thousands of items and thousands of employees — and then try to imagine how you would

  • Millie Blackwell
    Millie Blackwell
5 min read
Sales Presentations

Sales Enablement Apps: Software to Streamline Your Sales Process

Here at Showcase, we’re in the software business. But, we’re really in the sales business. Because we exist to help our customers close more sales. So we’re kind of psyched

  • Millie Blackwell
    Millie Blackwell
5 min read
Sales Presentations

5 Tips to Manage and Improve Your Sales Process and Presentations

There’s so much advice out there on the internet about how to improve your sales process. How much? Well, I plugged the phrase “how to improve your sales process” into my browser,

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    Millie Blackwell
6 min read
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

  • Millie Blackwell
    Millie Blackwell
5 min read
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

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    Millie Blackwell
5 min read
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

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    Millie Blackwell
3 min read
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

  • Millie Blackwell
    Millie Blackwell
6 min read
Sales Presentations

Going Paperless? Here Are 5 Steps for a Smooth Transition

I’ve written before [https://blog.showcaseworkshop.com/10-reasons-to-stop-spending-money-on-print/] about all the great reasons to go paperless — in fact, preserving trees is a cause that’s very close to our hearts [https://showcaseworkshop.

  • Millie Blackwell
    Millie Blackwell
5 min read
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’

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    Millie Blackwell
4 min read
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

  • Millie Blackwell
    Millie Blackwell
6 min read
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

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    Millie Blackwell
5 min read
Customer Examples & 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,

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    Millie Blackwell
3 min read
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

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    Millie Blackwell
6 min read
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