Sales & Marketing Articles 3 Reasons Agricultural Products and Services 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
Sales & Marketing Articles 5 Sample Follow Up Emails to Send Your Prospective Client The follow up stage of working with potential new business can be an arduous and anxiety inducing task, no matter what industry you're in. Managing both your prospective clients expectations and your own
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
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
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
Sales Presentations Dropbox vs. Showcase: Sharing Files Is Just the Start Supporting your sales team means getting your marketing assets into the hands of your sales reps — so they can get them into the hands of their prospects and customers. That’s why file
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
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
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,
Sales Enablement Prezi vs. Showcase: Two Nonlinear Presentation Tools Go Head to Head We know how important a compelling presentation is to closing a sale. It’s why we created Showcase Workshop — to help sales teams convert more prospects into customers. But when it comes to
Getting Started Give Your Presentation A New Home: Migrating From PowerPoint To Showcase If you've decided to sign up with Showcase, it's usually because there's something just not quite right about your current methods of presenting. Maybe you're wanting to reduce your environmental impact, or maybe
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
Sales Presentations Your New Best Friend: Using the 'Email Users' Function to Ramp Up Usage If you find yourself peering at your Showcase Analytics with a face of disbelief, never fear! We're here to help. There are many ways you can give your users a gentle push and
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 Enablement The "Why" of Sales Enablement Technology With Showcase, your sales team can just … do their jobs. Which, you know, is surprisingly difficult when processes hobble them instead of enables them. We talk a lot about Sales Enablement and Showcase
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.
Inside Showcase Workshop The Graphic Designer's Guide to Calculators and Forms in Showcase You may remember our great three-part series on how to put interactive content like forms and calculators right into Showcase. It was wildly popular, with tens of views. Our first post talked mostly
New Features, Release Notes & How-Tos Making Showcases without a Designer When you’ve got super amazing, revolutionary content - you want people to pay attention to it. In a sea of competition, how do you make sure you stand out? The answer to
Customer Examples and Case Studies Design of the Month: Chantal Organics Once upon a time when dinosaurs roamed the earth, to present your business to a potential buyer you had to slog around a briefcase full of promotional documents, sample products, and Filofaxes (remember
New Features, Release Notes & How-Tos Put on a Show(-case)! Getting your presentations on a big screen There are some questions we get asked a lot here at Showcase. "How did we ever live without this app??" "Why didn't we do this sooner?" "Can I
Sales & Marketing Articles The Secret Content Strategy of Top-Performing Sales Teams You might be wasting your budget on marketing and sales enablement content, without even realising it. Not that quality content isn’t incredibly valuable! In fact, top performing companies … Produce higher volumes of
Customer Examples and Case Studies Design of the Month: PartsTrader Will Cass doesn't muck around. And as Product Manager at PartsTrader, he knows that his reps can't muck around either. They only have a short window of time to introduce the PartsTrader proposition
Sales & Marketing Articles Hack My Pitch Up: Our 5½ Best Tips for Effective, Powerful Sales Presentations Apollo 11 – you know, the space rocket that went to the moon in 1969 – had a little computer on it called the Apollo Guidance Computer. (I say little; it still weighed 31.7kg.
Sales & Marketing Articles How to Write Great Follow-Up Emails, without Repeating Yourself or Annoying Warm Prospects You may have heard the phrase “the fortune is in the follow-up.” After all, successful sales can average 16 touch points per prospect, within a 2-4 week span typically with 5 follow-up emails.