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?
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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This article was specifically written for:
– Presales managers and mentors (guidance on implementation and coaching your team)
– Presales individual contributors (read the article as if you were coaching yourself)
– Anyone contemplating implementing a sales or presales methodology (especially senior management)
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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?”
Consider the sum of an organization’s knowledge, know-how, tools, techniques, tips and success stories related to demonstrating one’s offerings. As with other types of capital, how can this best be captured, developed, and leveraged? How is it valued (how should it be valued)? And is what you have today sufficient?
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What can we learn by analyzing 67,149 software demos? A great deal…!
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