Surprise! Can you Demo…
Proper discovery is important for a million reasons, but the one we’re going to focus on today is how discovery dictates what you cover inRead More »Surprise! Can you Demo…
Software Demonstration
Software demos are supposed to help guide your prospect from their existing way of doing things to your solution. Often, we end up seeing demos that are informative at best. Our Software Demonstration blogs are crafted to help you create demos that are relevant, to the point, and understandable for your client.
How To Give a Great Team Demo
How to give a great team demo? Well, we can learn a thing or two from my 3 year old. After all, adults are justRead More »How To Give a Great Team Demo
Technobabble: The Demo Crime We See on Star Trek
Technobabble is the demo crime we see on Star Trek – let’s talk about the impact it has. Strap in – we’re going to getRead More »Technobabble: The Demo Crime We See on Star Trek
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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Transforming a Good Demo into a Winning Demo
In-person demos have disappeared since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Pre-sales and Sales professionals are headlong in building bridges to customers using virtual platforms, but many of these virtual demos are missing some key components that will transform the event from a good demo to a winning demo. It is stating the obvious that in-person demo practices don’t all translate to virtual. That said, many professionals are executing virtual demos like they did in-person.
Enough About Me: Six Tips on How Not to Talk About You or Your Company
The way some companies approach a presentation or demonstration sounds a bit like a bad date, the line goes, “Enough about me, let’s talk about you… what do you think about me?“
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The #1 Most Important Foundational Demo Technique on the Planet: Tell-Show-Tell
[Bob] It happens all the time. We show a group of stakeholders how easy and helpful our software can be, but their feedback is “it seems too complicated.” How can that be? Certainly, the selection team doesn’t want us to take away any of that great functionality?
Modern, comprehensive applications may seem simple to us but easily appear too complicated in the eyes of a stakeholder. In all fairness, many prospective clients are simply trying to judge the ability of their people to learn and operate your applications efficiently. They are trying to predict the impact that your solution will have on their operations, and they are using your product demonstration to help them make that prediction.
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