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Qualifying Your Account Executives Before a Demo

Product Management University

If you’re a solution consultant (SC), sales engineer (SE), or any other role that does sales demos, there’s nothing more uncomfortable than going into a demo and not knowing what you’re aiming for. Qualifying your account executives prior to the demo is a practice that’s beneficial to everyone, including the buyer.

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Turn B2B Leads to Sales With the Perfect Demo

Connect2Sell

( Editor’s Note: This article about the lead to sales path for B2Bs is guest written by Mike Mai. With more than 10 years of experience in marketing, Mike is now the marketing manager at Retalo.io. Mike has been involved in creating content for the website blog and planning marketing strategy for the company.

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Discovery, Demo, or Disconnect?

DiscoverOrg Sales

Sales people have been giving tech demos for a long time. Top of the funnel metrics require that SDRs book discovery calls and schedule demos, yet the value of those interactions can be difficult to quantify. Pre-demo discovery that leads to a white-glove trial. Top sales teams execute and quantify discovery data before a demo.

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10 Most-Read Sales Articles of 2018

Zoominfo

After all, you have calls to make, quotas to hit, and demos to run. Key Takeaways from the Best Sales Articles of 2018. The post 10 Most-Read Sales Articles of 2018 appeared first on ZoomInfo Blog. Read: The Ultimate List of Social Selling Tools for Your Sales Team. The Top 25 Must-Bookmark Sales Blogs. Happy New Year!

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Why Salespeople Won't Abandon the Early Demo and Presentation

Understanding the Sales Force

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan Two weeks ago I wrote this article about how demos and presentations are like snack foods. One of the comments, by Jason Kanigan, said: Traditional selling revolves around the demo/presentation. Move the demo/presentation phase to the END of the process. Hit a lot of rejection.

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The #1 Reason the Sales Process Stalls After a Demo

Product Management University

Why does the sales process often stall after the demo? The biggest reason the sales process stalls after a demo has just as much to do with the discovery phase as it does the demo itself. Once uncovered, these strategic buying drivers become the overriding theme to your sales process, especially the demos.

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Demo-litions: Demo Tear-Downs (Episode 2)

Sales Hacker

Welcome to Season 1, Episode 2 of our new Sales Hacker series: Demo-litions , where real reps giving real sales demos are reviewed by two sales experts. This is just our honest appraisal of a real sales demo from a real rep! In the first episode, we saw Shane Todhunter from Klue begin his demo with a company called OpenGov.