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Erin FetskoPrincipal Sales Engineer, SugarCRM

Demo Skills

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Demo Party Fouls

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Show up & Throw up

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Coolest Feature...Ever!!!

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Overselling

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Keyboard Kung Fu

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Illiteracy Assumption

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Welcome to Training

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Your demos shouldtell a story!

A good demo has a plot line where:

• the beginning frames the business issue

• the middle discusses the solution• the end showcases the moral of

the story: how the solution will make the client's life better

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Maintain Situational Awareness

What's the objective?

Who's your audience?

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Sell While You Demo

User Adoption

Business Intelligence

Why Sugar

• CRM required to increase revenue in 2011 (business issue)

• Currently don't understand where sales cycle stalls 

• Because they have no visibility into  pipeline (business problem)

• So you intend to show dashboards

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Use what you know

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Lead to Cash