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PreSales Unleashed
By Tim & Jan

🇬🇧 Software Demos that actually convert (with Anna Decroix from Demoboost) (136)

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5.9.2023

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The million-dollar question: How to build demos that actually convert.

Before even answering that, there are many parameters to consider:

🔵 What moves a prospect from zero trust to ready to buy?

🔵 How can we leverage the SE function the most?

🔵 Which use cases have the highest relevance?

🔵 Where in the buying journey is the prospect?

🔵 Why are SDRs and AE afraid to demo?

Anna Decroix from demoboost, believes that an interactive demo can play a fundamental role in resolving the biggest issues of the sales process.

Here are some facts:

Average pipeline conversion of SaaS business is around 10-15% (which might be worse due to poor CRM maintenance). In other words- 85-90% of the work of big revenue teams is a waste of time. That’s Insane! It’s really time to end this madness.

This leads us to QUALIFICATION. (our all-time favorite 😉)

Thought Experiment:

Instead of Qualification, should not rather talk about Disqualification?

A significant portion of those 90% of leads are ONLY CURIOUS prospects - who don’t want to buy.

BUT they want to be informed. There is no way to convert them - no matter how many custom demos we are going to show them. The challenge is that we simply don’t have filters in place.

SDRs are incentivized to book a meeting. AEs are incentivized by deal progression.

Coming back to the original question: Before we focus our efforts on meeting tactics (storytelling, value selling, audience management), let’s keep the house clean of those low-intend leads.

But not by rejecting them.

Rather, by giving them a forum to explore, ask questions and educate themselves.

And yes, it means you have to let go of your beloved “Book a demo”-Button.

You found this thought-provoking? Tune into the podcast.

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Level Up and Let’s Rock. Thanks a lot Max for being our guest and sharing your experiences and insights.
Want to reach out to Max?

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/max-luepertz/
PreSales Rockstars: http://presales.rocks/
Code Intelligence: https://www.code-intelligence.com/

👍 Viel Spaß & Inspiration beim Zuhören wünschen dir Jan & Tim

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🎧🎙️ The Perfect Demo Environment, Interview with Peter Cohan

How to suspend disbelief

Peter Cohan is founder and CEO of Great Demo! We had a chat with him about the perfect demo environment. In this episode we review some of Peter's tips on how you can create more compelling demo builts.

The goal: Provide the maximum value to your prospects and ultimately make you more successful.

There are surprisingly simple things that you can easily incorporate into your daily routine, that can have a huge impact on the perception of your audiences.

Care for a sample teaser? Easy: Don’t call it demo!

Why you may ask?

Because your prospects unconsciously translate the word “demo” to mean “fake”.

Keen for more? Tune into this versatile and fun episode with Peter.

Peter on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/petercohan/
Great Demo!: https://greatdemo.com/

Thanks a lot to Peter for a terrific chat and all your insights!

👍 Viel Spaß & Inspiration beim Zuhören wünschen dir Jan & Tim

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  • Kann ich die Value Proposition einfach aus den USA übernehmen?
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  • Wie definiere ich die richtigen Ziele? Und wie messe ich diese?
  • Wie gehe ich mit lokalen Unterschieden in länderübergreifenden Organisationen um?
  • Welche Prozesse und Tools sind wirklich entscheidend?

Zu diesen und weiteren Fragen teilt Stefan seine Erfahrungen, Learnings und Ideen mit uns.

Stefan bei LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stefan-janssen-12690b2/
Seismic Website: https://seismic.com/

👍 Viel Spaß & Inspiration beim Zuhören wünschen dir Jan & Tim

☎️ Unverbindliches Kennenlernen

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🥳 ARRtist Circus Berlin – das PreSales Event in DE

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Du möchtest dich mit uns austauschen?

🔵 Jan | 🔵 Tim

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