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PreSales Unleashed | Sales Engineering im B2B Software Vertrieb
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ License to Demo: Everyone Should Have a Q (Gadgets & Tools for PreSales at Scale) - With Micah Joel (201)

Or should we rather talk about really what are your challenges? What are the consequences those lead to? And is it really worthwhile considering we're doing a project here? I think that would be the more meaningful conversation as opposed to we just would like to see what you're doing. Hier ist ein Video, hier ist ein Klick-Path-Demo, was auch immer du es nennst.

PreSales Unleashed | Sales Engineering im B2B Software Vertrieb
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ License to Demo: Everyone Should Have a Q (Gadgets & Tools for PreSales at Scale) - With Micah Joel (201)

For me, that's the, I mean, you mentioned the word earlier. For me, that's the essence of buyer enablement, understanding what your customer needs to make an educated decision. And if part of that is a two-day demo workshop, okay, well, let's discuss it in detail, what is really required there.

PreSales Unleashed | Sales Engineering im B2B Software Vertrieb
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ License to Demo: Everyone Should Have a Q (Gadgets & Tools for PreSales at Scale) - With Micah Joel (201)

For me, that's the, I mean, you mentioned the word earlier. For me, that's the essence of buyer enablement, understanding what your customer needs to make an educated decision. And if part of that is a two-day demo workshop, okay, well, let's discuss it in detail, what is really required there.

PreSales Unleashed | Sales Engineering im B2B Software Vertrieb
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ License to Demo: Everyone Should Have a Q (Gadgets & Tools for PreSales at Scale) - With Micah Joel (201)

If the requirement is to go through the security questionnaire and show you a couple of screens and one use case, well, by all means, let's do that, right? Just because our process has 19 steps in it doesn't mean that every customer requires it because, well, what do they need to make an educated decision is the most important question I believe today.

PreSales Unleashed | Sales Engineering im B2B Software Vertrieb
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ License to Demo: Everyone Should Have a Q (Gadgets & Tools for PreSales at Scale) - With Micah Joel (201)

If the requirement is to go through the security questionnaire and show you a couple of screens and one use case, well, by all means, let's do that, right? Just because our process has 19 steps in it doesn't mean that every customer requires it because, well, what do they need to make an educated decision is the most important question I believe today.

PreSales Unleashed | Sales Engineering im B2B Software Vertrieb
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ License to Demo: Everyone Should Have a Q (Gadgets & Tools for PreSales at Scale) - With Micah Joel (201)

Seit wir auf dem Thema sind, was denkst du ΓΌber den Book-a-Demo-Button auf fast 90 Prozent der SaaS-Websites? Ja.

PreSales Unleashed | Sales Engineering im B2B Software Vertrieb
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ License to Demo: Everyone Should Have a Q (Gadgets & Tools for PreSales at Scale) - With Micah Joel (201)

Seit wir auf dem Thema sind, was denkst du ΓΌber den Book-a-Demo-Button auf fast 90 Prozent der SaaS-Websites? Ja.

PreSales Unleashed | Sales Engineering im B2B Software Vertrieb
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ License to Demo: Everyone Should Have a Q (Gadgets & Tools for PreSales at Scale) - With Micah Joel (201)

All right. So we talked about the first part of your team, who is fundamentally responsible for maintaining and creating demo environments. Let's move to the second piece, which is tooling. What does tooling do?

PreSales Unleashed | Sales Engineering im B2B Software Vertrieb
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ License to Demo: Everyone Should Have a Q (Gadgets & Tools for PreSales at Scale) - With Micah Joel (201)

All right. So we talked about the first part of your team, who is fundamentally responsible for maintaining and creating demo environments. Let's move to the second piece, which is tooling. What does tooling do?

PreSales Unleashed | Sales Engineering im B2B Software Vertrieb
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ License to Demo: Everyone Should Have a Q (Gadgets & Tools for PreSales at Scale) - With Micah Joel (201)

Ich werde dein LinkedIn-Profil wiederholen. Ich hoffe, du hast es noch. Ich liebe es, wie du es darstellst. ...designte automatische Konfigurationstools, die den SE-Workload bei 480.000 Stunden reduziert haben, um 42 Millionen US-Dollar zu sparen.

PreSales Unleashed | Sales Engineering im B2B Software Vertrieb
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ License to Demo: Everyone Should Have a Q (Gadgets & Tools for PreSales at Scale) - With Micah Joel (201)

Ich werde dein LinkedIn-Profil wiederholen. Ich hoffe, du hast es noch. Ich liebe es, wie du es darstellst. ...designte automatische Konfigurationstools, die den SE-Workload bei 480.000 Stunden reduziert haben, um 42 Millionen US-Dollar zu sparen.

PreSales Unleashed | Sales Engineering im B2B Software Vertrieb
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ License to Demo: Everyone Should Have a Q (Gadgets & Tools for PreSales at Scale) - With Micah Joel (201)

Was war das Tool oder ist das Tool, das am meisten Zeit spart?

PreSales Unleashed | Sales Engineering im B2B Software Vertrieb
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ License to Demo: Everyone Should Have a Q (Gadgets & Tools for PreSales at Scale) - With Micah Joel (201)

Was war das Tool oder ist das Tool, das am meisten Zeit spart?

PreSales Unleashed | Sales Engineering im B2B Software Vertrieb
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ License to Demo: Everyone Should Have a Q (Gadgets & Tools for PreSales at Scale) - With Micah Joel (201)

So you're not there in 2024 demoing data from 2019 and saying, hey, look at this recent campaign we did.

PreSales Unleashed | Sales Engineering im B2B Software Vertrieb
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ License to Demo: Everyone Should Have a Q (Gadgets & Tools for PreSales at Scale) - With Micah Joel (201)

So you're not there in 2024 demoing data from 2019 and saying, hey, look at this recent campaign we did.

PreSales Unleashed | Sales Engineering im B2B Software Vertrieb
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ License to Demo: Everyone Should Have a Q (Gadgets & Tools for PreSales at Scale) - With Micah Joel (201)

Also ich denke, alles, was du in den letzten zehn Minuten gesprochen hast, ich meine, ich kann nur aus meiner Perspektive sprechen, aber ich assume, dass viele, viele SEs da draußen gefreut sind, dass sogar die Idee, dass so etwas existiert, weil alles, was du gesprochen hast, jeder einzelne Anwendungsfall, ist ein Schmerzpunkt, den ich als SE hatte.

PreSales Unleashed | Sales Engineering im B2B Software Vertrieb
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ License to Demo: Everyone Should Have a Q (Gadgets & Tools for PreSales at Scale) - With Micah Joel (201)

Also ich denke, alles, was du in den letzten zehn Minuten gesprochen hast, ich meine, ich kann nur aus meiner Perspektive sprechen, aber ich assume, dass viele, viele SEs da draußen gefreut sind, dass sogar die Idee, dass so etwas existiert, weil alles, was du gesprochen hast, jeder einzelne Anwendungsfall, ist ein Schmerzpunkt, den ich als SE hatte.

PreSales Unleashed | Sales Engineering im B2B Software Vertrieb
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ License to Demo: Everyone Should Have a Q (Gadgets & Tools for PreSales at Scale) - With Micah Joel (201)

Ich erinnere mich an eine Firma, ohne das Namen zu bezeichnen, es war ein Schmerz, ein System zu provisionieren. Und ich habe mich immer gefragt, wenn ich hier in einem neuen Umfeld klicke, warum muss ich durch diesen 20-Stunden-Prozess nachhelfen, um es tatsΓ€chlich zu einem Status zu bringen, in dem ich sogar mit ihm arbeiten kann.

PreSales Unleashed | Sales Engineering im B2B Software Vertrieb
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ License to Demo: Everyone Should Have a Q (Gadgets & Tools for PreSales at Scale) - With Micah Joel (201)

Ich erinnere mich an eine Firma, ohne das Namen zu bezeichnen, es war ein Schmerz, ein System zu provisionieren. Und ich habe mich immer gefragt, wenn ich hier in einem neuen Umfeld klicke, warum muss ich durch diesen 20-Stunden-Prozess nachhelfen, um es tatsΓ€chlich zu einem Status zu bringen, in dem ich sogar mit ihm arbeiten kann.

PreSales Unleashed | Sales Engineering im B2B Software Vertrieb
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ License to Demo: Everyone Should Have a Q (Gadgets & Tools for PreSales at Scale) - With Micah Joel (201)

Ich habe noch nicht mal irgendwelche Daten eingeladen, es ist nichts drin, um eigentlich angefangen zu werden. It already took half a day. And I mean, never mind, I can still remember, I used like random name generators, address generators and all the bunch using Excel loaders to just put something in. I mean, if you're lucky, your solution has an Excel loader.