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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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How Sales Reps Are Hitting Quotas Without Hitting the Streets

Sales and Marketing Management

For instance, more than a decade ago, Cisco Systems installed an on-demand portal that has a wiki knowledge base, virtual product demos and an expert locator. Zoom, the video communications firm, uses software to analyze call data in order to identify winning communication styles and inform training. .

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The Most Basic Rule of Product Positioning – It’s Easy

Product Management University

For the first four years of my software career, I was a pre-sales solution consultant, a.k.a. I think of demos as verbal product positioning. The Product Positioning School of Hard Knocks Early in my pre-sales demo career, I had some demos where my audience was totally engaged and it felt like I hit it out of the park.

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Demotainment is Not a Dirty Word! 5 Ways to Make your Demo More Entertaining

Julie Hanson

I just sat through another deathly serious – and seriously boring – demo. When I suggested some ways to make the demo more engaging for his audience, the salesperson bristled and replied, “I don’t believe in demotainment.”. 5 simple ways to make your demo more entertaining: Hook with your Opening . Tell a Story.

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Solution Consultants, Be The Person You’d Love To Buy From

Product Management University

For all of you pre-sales solution consultants and sales engineers looking for new ways to differentiate your demos, step away from your products for a quick minute. That’s the simple secret to setting yourself apart from the competition in the sales process, especially the product demo. It happens almost immediately.

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What is Lead Nurturing, and How Can It Help You Get More Deals?

Nutshell

This is an excellent time to invite your leads to view webinars, workshops, conferences, and the like. It’s also an ideal time to register them for product demos and guided tours. Because CRM software will help you organize, segment, and share your prospect’s information with ease.

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A Real-Life Example of How to Use Certification Management Software

Lessonly

Hang with me, I promise we’ll talk about certification management software here in a bit! . Once the intern team arrived, we spent several days in training workshops and sessions with our Intern Coordinator, who was essentially a competency manager, where we learned answers to simple, questions like: Where do we keep the band-aids?