Thousands of Websites Offer “Book a Demo” – Should Another Option Be “Book a Conversation”?
Wouldn’t it be great to start the interaction with your customers with a conversation – or a substantial Discovery discussion – before offering a live demo?
Wouldn’t it be great to start the interaction with your customers with a conversation – or a substantial Discovery discussion – before offering a live demo?
These 90- to 120-minute sessions for small groups will have you connecting and driving interaction with your audiences effectively and confidently when using Zoom/WebEx/GoToMeeting and similar tools.
How many web demos and presentations start with, “Can you see my screen?” – following by nothing but the presenter talking and clicking?
Ask yourself, what do you do? Are your audiences engaged?
When you ask your audience, “Any questions so far?” how often do you hear “Nope, we’re good…” or the chirp-chirp of crickets in an empty room?
Far too often, prospects demand, “Just show me a demo…” when we know the correct approach is to invest, mutually, in a substantive Discovery conversation. But how do we convince prospects to make this change?
Some folks start making changes right away. Others watch to see how it goes with their peers. And (sadly) a few ignore the investment completely…
Stunningly Successful Great Demo! Implementation – A Practitioner’s Perspective Read More »
In your demos, how often do you find you are apologizing for an inability to demonstrate capabilities, complete workflows, or present compelling results and reports? Far too often, in many cases!
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Have you ever wondered what the best time of day is to perform a demo…
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For the clueless, not a thing. But for those who are awake and aware, better demos are exceptionally valuable…
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I both love and hate doing demonstrations at trade shows. They are wonderful because of the opportunity to interact with so many customers. They are terrible when you consider how many of those customer interactions, and demos, are unqualified and unproductive.
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Here’s a novel idea: Go visit your new customers four or five months after they purchased your software and after they have deployed it into production use. Ask them, “How are you using our software? What applications have you implemented? What value are you receiving?”