Providing a great demo experience is a crucial step to winning deals. After all, it’s your opportunity to connect the dots for your customer and demonstrate product value and how it directly relates to their specific needs.
Reinforced by an
analysis from Gong, a great demo experience focuses on your prospect's problems, needs and journey. It shows the end results, the solutions, and how their lives will be better with your product in their hands.
The key to a successful demo: Use the product as the proof point that backs your story and value prop. Not the other way around.
The Feature-Based Live Demo
Using your product itself as the center piece of your sales demo puts the features in the foreground, and value in the background.
It leads to questions like "What does that button do?" or "Can I change how that page is sorted?" Questions that do not move the conversation forward, but only waste time for everyone and ultimately distracts from what really matters: value.
Feature-by-feature walkthroughs rarely lead to 'aha' because they lack emotion and excitement - what drives decision making.
It even puts you, the salesperson, in the mindset of processes and features when you really should be focused on story and getting your prospect to see value.
So how do you stay focused on story and value, while still showing your product to support your claims?
The Story-Based Live Demo
ScreenSpace takes a completely different approach to the live demo experience.
Instead of guiding prospects through features, ScreenSpace lets you guide them through value, brand and story (what drives decision making), while features provide the context and proof to back each claim.
As you walk through your product, rich content is displayed around the screen connecting the dots from each feature to value. Your prospects naturally stay focused on the story while the features provide context and proof.
You and your prospects are now focusing on what drives the conversation towards a sale, as opposed to getting lost in irrelevant detail.
ScreenSpace demos are built using screen captures and our drag-and-drop interface, so customization only takes a few minutes and never requires development or design resources.Since the interactions through out the demo are captured, you can re-visit any demo in the past to inform future conversations a optimize results.
The Interactive Leave-Behind
Your prospect is sold! They loved the demo, they get the value, and now they need to share it with the rest of the team.
The very demo that you used to sell your prospect, can now be delivered as a leave-behind, empowering your prospects to share the story with the rest of the team. In minutes, you can custom tailor the leave-behind and add any additional collateral (PDFs, videos, e-books, etc.) embedded inside the experience and in context of your product.
There is a place for the Feature-Based Demo
Say you have a specific feature that is top priority for a prospect and they need to ensure it functions the way they expect it to.
In these cases, a technical demo showing the feature itself is necessary.
In most other cases, this won't be necessary if they truly resonate with your story and value.
Keep your live demos focused on story and value, all while reducing time before, during, and after your demo call! Request access
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