Showcase Workshop

Sliced bread isn't this good!

Kommentare: Our Sales team love it. No more brochures in their cars or out-dated information. And it runs without an internet connection. Awesome.
Green Gorilla are the game-changers in waste recycling services, so to have our team using printed brochures was going against our philosophy of waste minimisation. Our clients have been very impressed with the sales presentations. We love using the notification feature when a client opens an email generated from Showcase - our team call within 20 mins. The clients are always amazed at our timing!

Vorteile:

Creation and administration of Showcase is a breeze. If you can use PowerPoint or Keynote, then this App is like changing from a pair of sneakers into a pair of Gucci loafers. It's better. Read the Showcase tips first! They've done the hard work. I'd recommend planning your Showcase and getting all your content (including images and text) ready before you start building. That is the hardest part! Building and updating is a breeze.

Nachteile:

There's nothing I dislike about the software. It does what you want it to do.

Easy and effective

Vorteile:

Easy to find all the information in one place. Simple to delete and upload new content each month

Nachteile:

Can sometimes take awhile to upload and publish

newer is not necessarily better??

Kommentare: has been generally ok ,

Vorteile:

is a good platform for my guys to access procedures etc from

Nachteile:

it has been made too complicated to use for me.. adding new slide shows or notes etc has become as stated early more complicated..

Colliers Wellington Review

Kommentare: We can now produce Submissions, Information Memorandums, Marketing Reports, Market Overviews and client presentations using templates we have created and turn jobs that were historically very time-consuming and stressful into a job with speed to market following a simple templated process. Getting insight into our client and customers activity is hugely benefitial for us to refine and improve how we conduct business We hope to get all of our Colliers business groups around the country onto using showcase.

Vorteile:

Option to create showcases then create copies to edit - this has given us the foundation for simplified templates. Ability to use existing marketing (PDFS, Videos etc.) as well as online content to add value to our presentations and remove the need to re-creation. The Analytics it provides into recipients viewing of showcases - Who looked at what and for how long, when etc. - this provides us insight into our clients interests and qualifies their interest in a property.

Nachteile:

The filing system could use some help - I would be very helpful if entire folders could be moved into other folders instead of having to move files individually. Once you have a lot of files, finding the ones to move and the folder to move them into is very difficult and quite time consuming if you need to do a major tidy up of the filing system. Hotspot Alignment Grid/tool/guide - It would be superb if when creating multiple hotspots on a page you could either a) turn on a grid to assist with alignment, b) select mutliple hotspots and click 'justify' and choose either left, right, top or bottom and they would all align, c) there was a guide that appeared when you select a hotspot to help you align with existing hotspots like the feature in InDesign. Moving hotspots - It would be fantastic if you could use your mouse to select multiple hotspots and move them in bulk. For example if we have created a table which is a hotspot of rows and a hot spot of columns full of hotspots for each cell of data, we'd like to select the whole table and move it instead of moving potentially 100+ hotspots individually. The ability to highlight and change the colour, typeface, font, alignment of different parts of text within a single hotspot. For example, I'd like to create one Text Hotspot and within that have the heading, subheading, text, quote, text & legal title/disclaimer. Having to make an individual hotspot for each of these and then align them is very time consuming and difficult.

How we have used showcase

Kommentare: We use Showcase to educate sales staff about products as well as it being a point of sale tool for our sales staff. Our staff have a very high engagement rate with Showcase and it shows they are learning the information we are putting on to Showcase. We see this resulting in more informed sales staff that are able to highlight the benefits to customers more clearly.

Vorteile:

There are a lot of pros to Showcase that work well for our business and products that we sell. -Firstly the ease to update and alter any information as we need to is crucial for our new model releases. As well as the ability in put any information or background images we need to. -The sharing function is fantastic for our sales network to be able to quickly engage with their customers with our uniform and relevant material. -Showcases ease of use has been a large factor in it becoming our centralised platform for all of our sales networks information. -Being able to Email all of our users through Showcase is also a great way to keep the brand and sales network connected with the latest information. - Lastly and most importantly the Showcase team are always more than willing to help out with any of our issues or questions and act extremely quickly to get us a great result. They recently creating a contact tracing solution for us incredibly quickly and with everything we could have asked for.

Nachteile:

The only thing we have had complaints on from users is the size of the application. However this is due to us putting a large amount of documents on Showcase. Showcase also helped us by optimising the documents which helped reduce our app size. - No real cons here.

A great way to engage new and existing customers

Kommentare: Showcase Workshop helps the front line team interactively engage with customers and tell tailored business stories. Melding links, video and emailable content makes for better and more interesting face-to-face meetings. It's also easy to add and manage users, and having desktop access as well as across mobile platforms is very useful. Other benefits include better customer engagement and a large reduction in printing brochures and booklets. It's also meant easier access and distribution to pre-prepared presentations. We have also seen a huge reduction in old versions of documents being stored and used since the push updates mean that Showcase is always up-to-date. Some of the limitations for us are that there are a limited number of file name characters that are displayed in the sharing list, although careful file naming helps overcome this.

It would also be better to be able to turn file sharing on or off at the file level in order to allow or disallow sharing as circumstances change. From an admin perspective, having to change the enter screen to add, delete or move a hotspot is a little cumbersome, although with proper planning this is not that big an issue. I recommend to others that you spend time to map out your staff user stories so that it will work logically for most users most of the time. Then spend time planning the content that needs to be there to keep the stories engaging throughout a variety of meeting scenarios.

Showcase - Continues to impress

Kommentare: Due to the above issue, Showcase have worked swiftly to create a solution that enables our teams to create more bespoke showcases without losing the benefits of sending through the entire showcase. I really appreciated the speed of resolution on this issue

Vorteile:

While there are many features that I have found useful, one of the most utilised is observing the slides that are attracting the most interest. It is also great to be able to see the various disciplines from a sales team of over 100

Nachteile:

Integration with our existing business was great , the most difficult issue to get around was creating a more bespoke showcase which could just be due to that's the way we've always done it but I do feel that everyone customer deserves to have a more bespoke showcase

Showcase rocks

Kommentare: Fantastic

Vorteile:

Ease of use, stability searched for ages before finding showcase, have been using it for years now

Nachteile:

Hmmm nothing I can think of. Have yet to have a bad expereince

Lets Take Things Further - Post Haste and Show Case

Vorteile:

simple and easy to use and looks fantastic when you are presenting with it in front of customers. having all the information at our hands make it easy to share the relevant information with the customer

Nachteile:

with the abundance of information within our showcase, sometimes it is hard to remember exactly where you are in it and sometimes may click on the wrong slides looking for information,

Keeping Sales Teams up-to-date

Kommentare: Delivering updates on technical specifications to our salesforce.
Bundling access points to various webpages and documents.
Provide Guided Selling to sales people.

Vorteile:

Very simple to keep sales teams up-to-date and ensure that they always have the latest marcom and product information readily available when they visit customers. Technical specs of our product frequently change and we need to make sure that sales people have the latest release on their device. We also don't want them to waste their time looking for news and downloading it. Showcase Workshop provides a phantastic solution.

Nachteile:

Software still has a couple of bugs (or am I the only one finding them?). But none of them - so far - was mission critical and the support team always attended cases very quickly and resolved all.

Happy user, early adopter, still a fan

Kommentare: We solved the printing of endless client presentations. And when meeting the clients, we offered the client choice to easily point out subjects to discuss and then we push an interactive part of the screen and the presentation behind that starts automatically. You don't have to take your customer through all the pages you printed, but use only the ones of interest.

Vorteile:

It is an interactive presentation format when meeting with customers. it saves a lot of paper and printing, it is interactive, and it gives a techy impression when meeting the client It is simply to tailor each client meeting, which impresses most customers. Good thing is the simple usage at multiple devices.

Nachteile:

It takes some time to learn it. The drag and drop utilities can still be improved. however you can recognize continuous improvement in the development of the software.

Simple to use yet so professional.

Kommentare: We've ended up solving multiple business solutions with this one platform. What we started out using it for has grown arms and legs and now touches every area within the business.

Vorteile:

Quite simply - the ease of use. The marketing team controls the look and feel so the branding is always consistent and the information is fed into us where needed. The reps around the world have updated information at their fingers tips. If we have information that we need to out there, then it's simple to come up with an app and within a short amount of time, it's launched and live without having to go to an external provider.

Nachteile:

There are very few cons to be honest. A few things I'd like to be able to do with PDF's etc but maybe they will come over time.

Email with confidence

Kommentare: Great easy excess to information on vehicles in an a very intuitive way.

Vorteile:

This best feature of showcase is on you have send your email containing your vehicle brochure, you get sent an email from showcase to say your email has been viewed and how many to the have gone bank and viewed. Brilliant you can gauge how interested they are in the vehicle.

Nachteile:

Thing I least like about this is is not set up to send videos which would be very handy to help explain certain features.

Showcase makes me look professional!

Kommentare: Showcase is the ideal solution for our business! We can present a consistent message to our customers globally by the sales team members all around the world because we all use the presentations loaded on Showcase. If we need to target a specific customer or market, it's easy to create a new button/slide and customise it. Our brands are all presented accurately and are updated easily and we all sing the same song as a global sales team.

Vorteile:

The Showcase software allows me to show my presentation, then with a click of a button I email it straight to the recipient. It save the 'later on' follow ups and it tells me when they opened it! I have many different brands and it's so easy to describe our business - show all brands on one slide - then present either via iPad or my laptop App - to target my audience. It even shows videos and links to my website. I feel organised and professional with Showcase.

Nachteile:

We need to do a bit of reformatting of the presentations we're pdf'ing to customers when jpegs are involved.

Love it!

Vorteile:

I find Showcase super easy to use and a great way to give our clients and potential clients an easy way of updating themselves on our products.

Nachteile:

Page layout could be a bit better (but that could be an issue at our end)

Fantastic product

Kommentare: We utilize it to store all our product information and promotions on. All your brochures, videos and marketing material stored in one place and updated at once.

Vorteile:

Incredibly easy to use, intuitive even for people with little IT skills!

Nachteile:

No negatives from me. It does every thing that we require it to do.

Showcase review

Vorteile:

Simplicity of sharing presentation for post - meeting follow up, and ability to track downloads of the presentation and drill down to where viewers dwelled (within their downloads)

Nachteile:

I feel making changes to the presentation requires medium to high skill set

Plant & Food Research Review

Vorteile:

Showcase is easy to use and allows us to customise and send our content to our business managers across the world. It gives us a platform to showcase all our information in one place which can be pushed to multiple devices and platforms, with the ability to work without being reliant on the internet.

Nachteile:

The previous version of the file library was easy to work with before.

Showcase your work with ease

Kommentare: It’s jusr a really great app to use and a good marketing and sales tool!!

Vorteile:

I love that I can share a whole live catalogue to a buyer and they look at it and they are really impressed. It instantly lifts our company into a far more professional light. I love using and sharing showcase!

Nachteile:

Sometimes I don’t know where things have been filed. I don’t have to load things so I’m not sure about the mechanics but for presenting to buyers, I have no faults.

Easy to use, super customisable

Vorteile:

The front end can be used offline which is awesome for our reps on the road. Also it is endlessly customisable and super easy to use from the back end, as well as looking impressive from the front.

Nachteile:

We sometimes use Showcase instead of Powerpoint for presentations as we can get it looking exactly how we want it, and it's interactive! However it'd be awesome to add presenter notes to a slide (like PP has).

Showcase is a great tool for sales teams

Kommentare: Great benefits for sales as able to share our products instantly and see when files have been opened which allows us to follow up soon afterwards.

Vorteile:

Ease of use. Fantastic presentation options. Functionality.

Nachteile:

Trying to separate out individual slides to send.

Branding with ease

Kommentare: Easy to use, caters for all of our presentation needs and gives us the ability to offer a professional branding image consistently with all of our agents.

Vorteile:

I find Showcase easy to use and create a seamless cohesive branding across all of our presentations for the whole team.

Nachteile:

There is really nothing about the product that comes to mind which I dislike, thank you. It is a pleasure to use.

Showcase Review

Vorteile:

It is user friendly and easier to share and track info with customers

Nachteile:

It is not ideal that i have to copy a page 20 times and just name it differently so I can put in it multiple slide sequences. Very time consuming

Showcase - a great tool for our company

Kommentare: Showcase offers our team to ability to present and send information to our customers while on their site. This therefore exceeds customer expectations which is always good to do.
We have been with Showcase now for a number of years and have enjoyed their ability to improve and add new features. Eg the Search function.

Vorteile:

Showcase makes it easy to add new information and easy for our team to access anywhere, anytime.

Nachteile:

Nothing major. Sometimes its difficult to remove old attachments. It would be good to have a link to where they are so they can be removed as they are sometimes hard to find

Great Sales Tool

Kommentare: Showcase is a great sales tool. Our clients often compliment us on the way the information is presented.
They also comment on how easy it is to navigate and use themselves. Many clients regularly access Showcase post-sales meeting, thus adding value and aiding the full sales process.

Vorteile:

Showcase allows us to collate and represent a large range of operators. In a sales discussion it is quick to demonstrate different products using a visual tool (slideshow) plus loading and sharing of key fact sheets (pdfs)

Nachteile:

Usage reports need to provide an improved overview and a Select All when sharing information sheets would be great - currently have to click on every single file to send.