{"id":43553,"date":"2026-02-16T17:40:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T17:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greatdemo.com\/?p=43553"},"modified":"2026-02-16T17:40:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T17:40:27","slug":"users-groups-an-underutilized-competitive-weapon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greatdemo.com\/es\/users-groups-an-underutilized-competitive-weapon\/","title":{"rendered":"Users\u2019 Groups: An Underutilized Competitive Weapon!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Customers sing your praises to prospects (then beat you up about desired functionality)!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>One of my first recommendations as a board member was to push the CEO to organize a users\u2019 group meeting.<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cBut we only have twelve customers\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I responded, \u201cAh! Then we should have started earlier!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Users\u2019 groups are competitive weapons for SaaS vendors, enabling differentiation <em>m\u00e1s all\u00e1 de<\/em> your products.<\/p>\n<p>Why do customers participate in users\u2019 group meetings?<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The free bar at face-to-face meetings\u2026!<\/li>\n<li>Para saber c\u00f3mo <em>otros <\/em>customers are using the software<\/li>\n<li>To push the vendor to implement or improve capabilities<\/li>\n<li>To get insight into the product roadmap (and influence it).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Number 1 above is often the most interesting and most important for current customers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What applications are being used successfully by other customers?<\/li>\n<li>How are other customers\u2019 implementations different or better?<\/li>\n<li>What additional applications and use cases have other customers put into play?<\/li>\n<li>What value are they enjoying?<\/li>\n<li>What implementation and adoption challenges were encountered and overcome?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And the value to your customers increases with increasing complexity and application breadth of your product(s). Users\u2019 group meetings for \u201ctoolkit\u201d offerings, for example, offer very high value for customers.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Next, why do <em>vendedores<\/em> hold users\u2019 group meetings?<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>To learn how their customers are using the software<\/li>\n<li>To gain insights into customer desires and future needs<\/li>\n<li>To move <em>perspectivas<\/em> forward in their evaluation and buying processes.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Number 1 yields extremely valuable formal and informal success stories (see \u201cFabulous Fuel for Sales, Presales and Customer Success: The Incredible Utility of Informal Success Stories\u201d \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/greatdemo.com\/es\/fabuloso-combustible-para-las-ventas-presenciales-y-el-exito-del-cliente-la-increible-utilidad-de-las-historias-de-exito-informales\/\">https:\/\/greatdemo.com\/fabulous-fuel-for-sales-presales-and-customer-success-the-incredible-utility-of-informal-success-stories\/<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Number 2, of course, provides excellent input into your product planning and roadmaps.<\/p>\n<p>And number 3 can be a very powerful social referencing and proof-point mechanism! When you invite prospects to your users\u2019 group meetings, they interact with existing customers, asking questions like \u201cAre you happy with the software?\u201d and \u201cWould you buy it again?\u201d The answers may be all the proof needed to move forward with a purchase.<\/p>\n<p>And there\u2019s a fourth nugget that can occasionally be uncovered: Why did your current customers choose <em>usted<\/em> over other options? The answers to this question are sales and marketing gold!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Finally, an active users\u2019 group can help you outflank competition. When you and your competitors\u2019 offerings are very similar with respect to features and capabilities, you can use whole product analysis to bias the comparison in your favor: your users\u2019 group may provide the critical advantage! (See \u201cCompetitive Differentiation via Whole Product Analysis\u201d here: <a href=\"https:\/\/greatdemo.com\/es\/diferenciacion-competitiva-mediante-el-analisis-de-todo-el-producto\/\">https:\/\/greatdemo.com\/competitive-differentiation-via-whole-product-analysis\/<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When\u2019s <em>su<\/em> next users\u2019 group meeting?<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Customers sing your praises to prospects (then beat you up about desired functionality)! &nbsp; One of my first recommendations as a board member was<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43554,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-43553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-advanced_topics","tag-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatdemo.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatdemo.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatdemo.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatdemo.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatdemo.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/greatdemo.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43555,"href":"https:\/\/greatdemo.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43553\/revisions\/43555"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatdemo.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatdemo.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatdemo.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatdemo.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}