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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. Just like you, they know their own shortcomings and there’s a good chance they’ve been schooled on how to neutralize them with some clever positioning or avoidance tactics.

Demo 130
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Product Demo Discovery – Nail It With This Agenda

Product Management University

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. When demo discovery meetings are scheduled, they’re usually done in casual fashion.

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Sales Demos: Selling Outcomes vs. Features

Product Management University

Business outcomes vs product features: how do your sales demos stack up? In the first column, list the name of each product. During the demo, there is no reason to refer to each product separately unless asked. The fewer the number of people delivering the demo, the easier and more integrated the solution will be perceived.

Demo 147
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The #1 Reason the Sales Process Stalls After a Demo

Product Management University

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.

Demo 147
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Product Demos Mistakes: How I Messed Up 30+ Product Demos as a Junior PM and How You Can Avoid It

Userpilot

Want to learn how to avoid common product demo mistakes? Definitely not the kind of questions you want to get in a product demo. But this was my reality when I first started giving product demos as a Junior Product Manager. I gave dumpster-fire demos. What are product demos and why should PMs care? What is this?”.

Demo 98
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Product Demos: Selling Value in Spite of Product Deficiencies

Product Management University

When a prospect asks for a feature you don’t have, respond as follows: “We don’t have a feature by that name, but tell me what you’re trying to accomplish and I’ll show you know how our product handles it.” . Here’s how to respond to product deficiencies while still selling value. Unfortunately, it’s never a perfect world.

Demo 100
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Scaling and Positioning Sprout Social’s Product Marketing Team

Pragmatic Marketing

Patrick Cuttica , the public-held company's director of product marketing, discussed scaling and positioning a product market team , especially in a growing organization, during an AMA that originally appeared on Sharebird —the place to see how people at top companies do product marketing. This is more of a nascent discipline.".