A 2023 Sales Kickoff Ferris Bueller Would LOVE
It’s that time of year again – time to plan your 2023 sales kickoff (SKO). Sales kickoffs are tricky to plan, because everyone in theRead More »A 2023 Sales Kickoff Ferris Bueller Would LOVE
Bob Riefstahl
Sales Kickoff Success 2023- Breakout Sessions
Part 1 and Part 2 of this series revealed our secret ingredients for successful SKO keynote speakers and SKO soft-skills training sessions. We discussed vetting and aligning your keynotes to your strategic initiatives and the importance of coaching your executives for impact and effectiveness. We also covered why an SKO is strategically the best time to upskill your sales organization and the importance of not being overrun by breakout session requests from departmental leaders. But, informative breakout sessions are crucial to the knowledge transfer of departmental initiatives. In this final segment of our three-part series on Sales Kickoff Success, you will learn how to maximize the effectiveness of every breakout session speaker.
Sales Kickoff Success 2023- Soft Skills Training
Sales Kickoff Success 2023- Choosing the Right Keynote Speaker
Ahhh, the glory days of a sales kickoff (SKO) where hundreds or even thousands meet for an energizing five days in places like Las Vegas, Singapore, or Budapest. Those venues are on pause for now; however, your SKO can still deliver energy and success virtually with the right formula of inspiring keynote speakers, results-driven soft-skills training, and actionable breakout sessions. This three-part series will explore how your sales enablement leadership can seek out and ensure the delivery of premier sessions for your SKO, starting with finding the best keynote speaker for your business.
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Leverage Video Before, During, & After Your Next Software Demo!
If you’re in Sales or PreSales in a technology company, you know all about the importance of securing the “technical win.” Accomplishing this step means you are over a significant hurdle in every sales process. However, the longer it takes to ensure the technical win due to complicated demos, complex-looking software, or a lack of buyer consensus, the more likely the sales process stalls or even dies. You can prevent that from happening through skilled demo techniques and by leveraging video. This article will focus exclusively on how you can use video before, during, and after your main demo to accelerate your technical win.
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Why a Winning Demo Comes Down to 2%
What do the modern Olympic games and winning sales demos have in common? 2% That is the statistical difference between the average Gold Medal and Silver Medal in the Olympics. The same holds true for the decision a group of stakeholders makes between staying with their current solution, switching to yours or choosing a competitor. The reality is that any judged event will have a similar bias. Why is that?
Product Review- Sharing a Personalized Demo with Navattic.
Personalized demos help prospects and clients visualize themselves using your software solution. Wouldn’t you agree? The challenge is the volume of demos a typical PreSales professional performs in any given week means that demo personalization is often not realistic. Traditionally, demo personalization requires creating a new application image with new records, prospect branding, and data. Enter Navattic. These ingenious PreSales professionals built a no-code demo workflow tool to help you better connect with your prospects.
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Top Discovery Tips for 2021
Congratulations! Your navigation through countless virtual demos and presentations is now 2020 hindsight as you’ve grown comfortable with whatever online tool your company utilizes (Teams, Zoom, GoToMeeting, Webex, etc.). You’ve probably set your achievement goals for 2021, but with all of the focus on how to best execute your demo and present in a virtual setting, do remember how to best CONNECT your demo to your audience using Discovery techniques in a virtual world. I’ve noticed a lack of blog attention to this crucial skill, so I’ve dedicated this article to describe some of the best tips and techniques for Discovery in today’s reality.