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Micah Joel

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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)

The team could answer your questions about when is a particular feature coming down the pipe. They could go interface with product management and go ask them. They could find out if a new feature was going to be implemented in the demo soon. They could answer questions about other tools that the SEs used or other processes. Hey, who do I talk to about this thing?

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)

The team could answer your questions about when is a particular feature coming down the pipe. They could go interface with product management and go ask them. They could find out if a new feature was going to be implemented in the demo soon. They could answer questions about other tools that the SEs used or other processes. Hey, who do I talk to about this thing?

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 we had a team of, I think it was four people, six people. Their whole job was to sit on the Slack channel. Initially it was tickets and then we moved to Slack when we purchased Slack. Their job was to handle SE-Requests in the heat of battle, right? So an SE is out there in the field and something's gone wrong. They have someone to turn to who doesn't go, have you tried rebooting?

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 we had a team of, I think it was four people, six people. Their whole job was to sit on the Slack channel. Initially it was tickets and then we moved to Slack when we purchased Slack. Their job was to handle SE-Requests in the heat of battle, right? So an SE is out there in the field and something's gone wrong. They have someone to turn to who doesn't go, have you tried rebooting?

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)

But says, I know you're an SE, right? I know you're smart. I know you've tried all the obvious things. Let's see if we can help you with this more complex. Okay, got it.

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)

But says, I know you're an SE, right? I know you're smart. I know you've tried all the obvious things. Let's see if we can help you with this more complex. Okay, got it.

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)

Yeah, the scale. I'm often shocked by the scale we're operating at. When I think about it, when they let little old me be in charge of all that, I was like, what are you doing? Why are you letting me do this? This is important to the business. Ja, also lasst uns darΓΌber sprechen. Also danke, danke, dass du meine eigenen Worte gegen mich benutzt hast.

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)

Yeah, the scale. I'm often shocked by the scale we're operating at. When I think about it, when they let little old me be in charge of all that, I was like, what are you doing? Why are you letting me do this? This is important to the business. Ja, also lasst uns darΓΌber sprechen. Also danke, danke, dass du meine eigenen Worte gegen mich benutzt hast.

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)

Salesforce hatte, als ich die Demo-Environment neun Jahre hervorragte, gab es eine. Es hieß die Simple Demo Org. Es war alles, was einfach war, aber es war ein einziger Demo-Environment, in dem fast jede Demo alles enthalten hatte. Wall-to-Wall, Salesforce. Und das hat für eine Weile funktioniert. Aber Salesforce begann, Firmen zu kaufen.

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)

Salesforce hatte, als ich die Demo-Environment neun Jahre hervorragte, gab es eine. Es hieß die Simple Demo Org. Es war alles, was einfach war, aber es war ein einziger Demo-Environment, in dem fast jede Demo alles enthalten hatte. Wall-to-Wall, Salesforce. Und das hat für eine Weile funktioniert. Aber Salesforce begann, Firmen zu kaufen.

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)

Und nicht alle dieser Unternehmen hatten die gleiche Architektur wie Salesforce. Dann gab es zwei Demo-Umgebungen. Und dann war das simple Demo-Org zu kompliziert. Und so haben wir das Clean-Demo-Org geschaffen, das ist ein leerer Demo-Org, der alles konfiguriert hat, aber nichts wirklich drin ist, damit deine Plattform-SEs es nutzen kΓΆnnen. Und dann haben wir alle Demo-Orge geschaffen, um

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)

Und nicht alle dieser Unternehmen hatten die gleiche Architektur wie Salesforce. Dann gab es zwei Demo-Umgebungen. Und dann war das simple Demo-Org zu kompliziert. Und so haben wir das Clean-Demo-Org geschaffen, das ist ein leerer Demo-Org, der alles konfiguriert hat, aber nichts wirklich drin ist, damit deine Plattform-SEs es nutzen kΓΆnnen. Und dann haben wir alle Demo-Orge geschaffen, um

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)

Account executives to be able to demo and even customers could demo to themselves using everybody's demo org. And then we had the DXDO, which was the developer, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Anyway, so we had those. We had a series of demo environments that were each separate columns. And each of those demo environments needed some level of maintenance.

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)

Account executives to be able to demo and even customers could demo to themselves using everybody's demo org. And then we had the DXDO, which was the developer, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Anyway, so we had those. We had a series of demo environments that were each separate columns. And each of those demo environments needed some level of maintenance.

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)

Und dann gab es ein Team neben mir, mein kurzer Freund Valerie Haas, der die Industriedemo-Umgebungen fΓΌr Finanzierung, Gesundheit und Transport gestaltet hat. Und also war jeder von ihnen auch ein separates Demo-Umgebung. Also wir hatten, es waren wahrscheinlich 15 Demo-Umgebungen.

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)

Und dann gab es ein Team neben mir, mein kurzer Freund Valerie Haas, der die Industriedemo-Umgebungen fΓΌr Finanzierung, Gesundheit und Transport gestaltet hat. Und also war jeder von ihnen auch ein separates Demo-Umgebung. Also wir hatten, es waren wahrscheinlich 15 Demo-Umgebungen.

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 etwa sieben der core Umgebungen gestaltet und Vals Team hat noch sieben oder acht dieser Industriedemo-Umgebungen gestaltet. Und so hat jeder von ihnen einen vollzeitigen Job gemacht. Und genau all diese Demo-Umgebungen brauchten eine Person auf sie. Weil jedes Mal, wenn ein neues Produkt herauskam, musste man das Produkt in all diesen Demo-Arten implementieren.

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 etwa sieben der core Umgebungen gestaltet und Vals Team hat noch sieben oder acht dieser Industriedemo-Umgebungen gestaltet. Und so hat jeder von ihnen einen vollzeitigen Job gemacht. Und genau all diese Demo-Umgebungen brauchten eine Person auf sie. Weil jedes Mal, wenn ein neues Produkt herauskam, musste man das Produkt in all diesen Demo-Arten implementieren.

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)

Und dann musste man mit dem Szenario kommen, das fΓΌr die bestimmte Industrie oder Szenario oder Anwendungsfall funktioniert. So it was an expensive organization. And this is one of the reasons we changed later, why I had that separate team that I talked about doing the rearchitecting, where we went to a modular model. And I'll talk about them more if you want.

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)

Und dann musste man mit dem Szenario kommen, das fΓΌr die bestimmte Industrie oder Szenario oder Anwendungsfall funktioniert. So it was an expensive organization. And this is one of the reasons we changed later, why I had that separate team that I talked about doing the rearchitecting, where we went to a modular model. And I'll talk about them more if you want.