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Product Demos: Avoiding the Trap of Telling vs. Selling

Product Management University

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. The telling demos are more like an introductory training class on the product versus a sales presentation.

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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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Competitive Demos – How to Attack Your Competitor’s Strengths

Product Management University

Competitive demos are stressful, especially when you’re operating on very little knowledge or hearsay information about your competitor’s weaknesses. That gives you the perfect opening to attack their strengths when you’re doing highly competitive demos, especially when their weaknesses aren’t show-stoppers. There’s no answer for that!

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Why The Product Demo Is a Dangerous Selling Tool

The Product Coalition

Many startups feel that the only thing preventing them from selling their product is a great demo. In fact, if you rely on your demo too much, you won’t be able to sell at all. Here’s how to use your product demo smartly, and avoid demo abuse. When people see a demo, you have immediately framed the discussion around it.

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Best Practices for Accelerating the Sales Process

Think about it: with outbound prospecting, requests from management, scheduled demos, and inbound calls, chaos can quickly work its way into your strategy, deeming a “speed wins” selling mentality downright ineffective. The bottom line is that, in B2B sales, speed is useless without control.

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SUNDAY REWIND: How to make a product demo that stands out

Mind the Product

In this Sunday Rewind post, we look back to when Oscar Santolalla offered engaging insights and practical advice on making a product demo that stands out. [.] Read more » The post SUNDAY REWIND: How to make a product demo that stands out appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Presales Demos – The Missing Value Link That Connects Tactical & Strategic

Product Management University

When it comes to presales demos, the endgame is to advance the sales process to the next stage. But there’s a common gap that exists in most presales demos, and it not only takes the impact out of your value story, it also erodes your differentiation. The flow of your demo narrative (the top-down version) would go something like this.

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