Product Management University

MARCH 23, 2023

If you’re a pre-sales solution consultant or sales engineer, falling into the trap of telling vs selling can happen before you even know it, even though your intentions are always on the mark to start the demo. Here’s how to avoid the trap. Telling demos aren’t going to energize anyone. It creates a greater urgency to buy.

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Product Management University

JANUARY 3, 2023

Sales demos are one of the easiest ways to boost your credibility with prospects and customers. A good sales demo creates that critical moment of differentiation that makes your product the obvious choice in a sea of competitors. What is a B2B Sales Demo Script? How to Create a Sales Demo Script. Create Scenarios.

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Anthony Iannarino

OCTOBER 8, 2019

There are more ways to get a demo wrong than there are ways to make it compelling and useful. If what you sell requires you demo for your prospective clients, the following eight laws will allow you to rule your demo—and improve your odds of winning. A Demo is a Sales Call. Still, others care about strategic outcomes.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

OCTOBER 10, 2018

How many times have you run an awesome demo that didn’t close? Today, I’m going to show you how to run demos that convert into closed deals. We’ll talk about the five stages of a good demo, and what to do and not to do, at each stage. Step 1: Set an agenda for the demo. tive Sales Demo.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Join Lars Nilsson and GTMfund to learn how to implement Account-based Sales Development (ABSD) strategies in your sales playbook – foster meaningful customer relationships while delivering real measurable returns through ABSD. How to implement ABSD in your sales playbook. How to implement ABSD in your sales playbook.

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Product Management University

MAY 24, 2023

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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Sales and Marketing Management

AUGUST 28, 2020

Author: Annie Reiss, Chief Marketing Officer, CloudShare While businesses determine how to safely return to something resembling a pre-COVID world, software sales teams are still racing to meet their quotas and keep business moving. Virtual Demos and PoCs. Today, the stakes are higher than ever for them to make a good impression. .

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 24, 2021

Converting a prospect to a demo is hard; leading an engaging demo is even harder. In his workshop filled with real-world examples, Demo-litions co-host and Replayz CEO Dave Kennett walks you through how to hone both your content and your presentation skills for a demo that speaks to exactly what your prospect needs.

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Gong.io

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Unlike bottom performers, superstar reps get bombarded with questions during sales demos. These are the 5 “acts” that winning sales demo scripts follow PLUS 5 examples to follow as you build out your script. The most brought-up topics in the first 10 minutes of winning sales demos help build the context. Higher ACV.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 30, 2019

This is where a product demo can fill in the gaps. What is a product demo? A product demo is a demonstration of how a product or software works. The product demo is different from a technical demo. A product demo is used to provide an overview of the product and the value it provides. Challenges.

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Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 7, 2018

And at the beginning of the sales cycle, when prospects might be initially unfamiliar with your brand or your solution, the way you conduct a demo request can make or break the sale. What Is a Demo Request? Demo requests help accelerate lead nurturing and, hopefully, new customer acquisition. Respond quickly to demo requests.

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Gong.io

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

If doing a product demo FEELS easy and intuitive, watch out. Even if you have lots of product knowledge, doing a product demo persuasively is hard and counterintuitive. I mean that what feels right during a product demo usually causes failure. 3 Million Product Demos Analyzed. Flip Your Product Demo Upside Down.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 1, 2020

The post Avoiding “Death after Demo”: How to Run Top-Notch Disco/Demo Calls appeared first on Sales Hacker.

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Sandler Training

JUNE 13, 2019

Trials and demos can be an important part of your sales cycle, especially in the enterprise space. Another term for a trial or demo, is the “Monkey’s Paw,” which is a small version of your larger service or a consulting project. A successful Monkey’s Paw has three components, which are similar to a successful trial.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

MAY 16, 2017

I’m Steve Bryerton, Vice President of sales here at DiscoverOrg, to talk about how to bookend your demo in order to create a sense of urgency and commitment from your prospects. From beginning of your demo , let’s create an upfront contract. How do we create the sense of urgency moving forward?

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Sales Hacker

JULY 30, 2021

Join our panel of sales leaders and frontline sellers as we walk through best practices on how to give demos that win deals faster. The post How to Give Demos That Don’t Suck (and Shorten Your Sales Cycle in the Process) appeared first on Sales Hacker.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 6, 2020

The post Sales Reps: How to Deliver Insanely Impactful Disco/Demo Calls appeared first on Sales Hacker.

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Product Management University

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Product demos are one of the most critical components of strong product marketing and sales for SaaS organizations. A great product demo creates an urgency to buy, while a bad product demo sends prospects running. What is a Product Demo? A product demo is a verbal value story. Product Demo vs. Free Trial.

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BrainShark

JUNE 28, 2019

Demo complete rate measures the number of demos completed as a percentage of demos scheduled. .

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BrainShark

JUNE 28, 2019

Calls per demo measures the average number of calls a sales rep needs to make in order to set a demo.

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SBI

JUNE 22, 2021

Q: What metrics should customers of Demo Automation solutions use to measure the impact or progress of their activities? Garin : Two key metrics our customers are finding success within their demo automation strategies are Stakeholders Discovered and Demo Qualified Leads (DQLs). Unqualified demos is a huge problem.

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Zoominfo

JULY 23, 2020

How to Nurture a Warm Lead. Leveraging our own data, we reroute inbound demos to the AE most suited to help a specific customer based on attributes we have collected. Give them a product demo. A good way to keep a warm lead engaged is by offering them a product demo. How to Generate Warm Leads. Segment email lists.

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criteria for success

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Do your sales reps give product demos? Are you looking to help them give winning sales demos that close? Virtual demos are such a huge part of the way many businesses sell their products and services. Well, you're in the right place.

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No More Cold Calling

APRIL 15, 2021

They buy what software does for them—how it saves time, decreases costs, engages customers, tracks referrals, etc. They don’t want to see your demo. They want you to ask smart questions about their business, engage them in conversation, and determine specifically how your product will mitigate their challenges.

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Gong.io

MAY 20, 2021

When you conduct a demo, you want the same thing to happen. Your goal is for the demo to be short, controlled, and concise. (No Let’s take a look at how this played out in the more than 3 million recorded product demos we analyzed using anonymized data from our Gong platform. How does your product solve that problem?

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 24, 2019

The technical demo could make or break the success of the deal. Ready to learn how to perfect your technical demo? What's the purpose of a technical demo? The technical demo is often presented to the buyer's technical team. In some cases, multiple technical demos are required. Let's dive in.

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A Sales Guy

NOVEMBER 25, 2014

In the world of SaaS and cloud solutions, the demo is everything. As the demo goes, so goes the sale. Give a shitty demo, and you’re not gonna get the sale. Give a good demo, and you’ve just increased the chances closing the deal. Here’s the ONLY way to do a demo. This is how a demo should go.

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Klozers

DECEMBER 10, 2021

SaaS Demo Best Practices – Top question from Google How to give a great SaaS demo Unfortunately, most people who are trying to understand and learn how to do a “good saas demo” are starting from the wrong place. Don’t worry just bear with me. Sales is full of pitfalls and traps, and what. Read more.

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Funnel Clarity

AUGUST 27, 2019

Demos are not dollars. Product demos and free trials are a great way to bring in leads, however, converting those leads into paying customers is no easy feat. According to a study by Totango, only about 15-25% of SaaS companies convert free users to paying subscribers.

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Nutshell

MARCH 19, 2024

We’ll also explore some of the challenges sales reps face that impact their productivity, detail how to calculate your team’s sales productivity, and discuss the best tools to help you increase it. Register for a live Nutshell demo to see what a world-class CRM can do for your sales team. Or join a live demo to see Nutshell at work!

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Zoominfo

MARCH 8, 2021

Like many B2B SaaS businesses, this company has a product demo as part of its marketing and sales funnel. They also find that their sales team isn’t using their time optimally — giving demos to unqualified leads, and not being quick to follow up with their ideal leads either.

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Product Management University

OCTOBER 19, 2021

If you want to nail the product demo discovery meeting, it’s all in how you set up the agenda beforehand. Demo Discovery vs. Sales Discovery. Uncovering that BIG WHY is the lynchpin to delivering a killer demo that energizes buyers. ” Here’s the problem with a lot of demo discovery meetings.

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Product Management University

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

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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Chorus.ai

MAY 4, 2020

You might think I’m crazy, but I want to strike the word “demo” from the sales lexicon. Because good sales teams don’t “do demos” for customers. Unfortunately, it’s all too easy for sales professionals to slip into safe mode and reach for the demo. So, sales pros have to know how to ask great questions.

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