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 •
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Customer Examples & 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

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Customer Examples & 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

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    Millie Blackwell
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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

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    Millie Blackwell
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Customer Examples & Case Studies

Taming the Wild West of Content to Change the Lives of Service Sector Employees

The hard-working team at ServiceIQ [http://www.serviceiq.org.nz/] has a big job to do upskilling employees in the aviation, hospitality, retail, travel, tourism and museums service sectors of New Zealand. To

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    Millie Blackwell
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Sales & Marketing Articles

4 Steps to Improve your In-Person Sales Presentation

Presenting a new idea isn’t always easy. Even if you’ve created the best presentation ever, standing in front of a room and sharing it is enough to make your palms sweat.

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    Millie Blackwell
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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. [https://showcaseworkshop.com/releaf-fund/] By November, we’d reached

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    Millie Blackwell
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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

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    Millie Blackwell
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Inside Showcase Workshop

Witness the Fitness: Our "Showcase Well-Shop Policy"

You may have heard the story of Perpetual Guardian [https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/19/world/asia/four-day-workweek-new-zealand.html] recently - The wills, estates and trusts business began a six-week experiment in

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    Millie Blackwell
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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

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    Millie Blackwell
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Inside Showcase Workshop

Treehuggers Unite!

Our third Forest Releaf Fund [https://showcaseworkshop.com/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

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    Millie Blackwell
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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.

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    Millie Blackwell
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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

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    Millie Blackwell
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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

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    Millie Blackwell
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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

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    Millie Blackwell
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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 [http://time.com/money/

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    Millie Blackwell
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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

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    Millie Blackwell
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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

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    Millie Blackwell
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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

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    Millie Blackwell
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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

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    Millie Blackwell
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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

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    Millie Blackwell
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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

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    Millie Blackwell
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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

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    Millie Blackwell
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Sales & Marketing Articles

Understanding Reporting Lines and Chain of Command to Close the Sale

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

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    Millie Blackwell
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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

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    Millie Blackwell
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How to Run a Meeting That Impresses the Pants off a Prospect

You’ve chosen and qualified [https://blog.showcaseworkshop.com/3-steps-to-choose-and-qualify-your-large-and-enterprise-leads/] your large or enterprise company prospect. You’ve landed the first meeting [https://blog.showcaseworkshop.com/how-to-land-the-first-meeting-with-your-enterprise-lead/], and you generally know what to

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