This blog post summarizes our August newsletter, “Strategies for a Winning Sales Presentation.” You can subscribe to the monthly SKMurphy newsletter using the form at the right
Strategies for a Winning Sales Presentation
We’ve all seen it–people listening to a sales presentation, eyes glazed over and their minds wandering anywhere but on what the speaker is saying. As an entrepreneur, whether you’re selling yourself or your products and services, it’s critical to avoid the missteps that put prospects to sleep and kill the deal.
The best demo–a Great Demo!–is a conversations driven by mutual curiosity. Your goal is to learn more about a prospect’s current situation and needs while they want to learn more about your product and services and how you can help them.
Mike Monteiro offered “13 Ways Designers Screw Up a Client Presentation–And One Weird Trick” in a Sep-13-2014 blog post:
many of these are also applicable to entrepreneurs making presentations to prospects.
I had a great time at the Cofounder Club last night. Dea Wilson, founder of Lifograph and organizer for the Meetup, invited me to talk about “Giving a Killer Demo.”
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