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Presales posts to help you become a high performing team and achieve exceptional presales results.
Demo Best Practices: Avoiding Uncomfortable Silences
Every demo expert tells you to pause after showing a key feature. Then wait… and wait… and wait… for your prospect to speak. We agree with this, but it’s so uncomfortable! Here’s a trick to get through it.
POC Best Practices: How to Avoid POC Scope Screep
Presales Leader: “POC scope creep is a major problem for us.”
Me: “Can you show me one of your Evaluation Plans?”
Presales Leader: “What do you mean?”
Me: “Oh boy… let’s chat!”
Homerun and Google Integrate to Automate Activity Tracking and Enhance Security
Homerun Presales is officially integrated with GSuite / Google Workspace! Sync calendars for automated Activity Tracking 📅. Login via Google SSO 🔐. Link to GDrive folders and docs 📁 . Heyooo!! 🙌
Homerun and Jira Integrate to Improve Collaboration between Presales and Product Teams
Features and Gaps and Bugs… oh my! Homerun Presales has a two-way integration with Jira, streamlining how presales and product teams stay in sync, unblock deals, and enhance the product roadmap. 🙌
Presales Best Practices: Collaborate with your Product Managers
The best presales teams UN-LOSE deals by working with their product team. How? Read on… (Hint: You’re sitting on the presales data they need… time to share it!)
Presales Best Practices: Responsible Growth and Operational Excellence
We had a demo this week with a presales leader who said that 2023 needed to be a year of Responsible Growth and Operational Excellence for his company. Love that! But what does that mean for a presales team? Let’s break it down.
Homerun Presales is live on the Salesforce AppExchange
BREAKING NEWS: Homerun Presales is live on the Salesforce AppExchange! 🙌 🥂 🍾 😃
Our new Salesforce App automates your presales workflow and data syncing between Salesforce and Homerun.
Demo Best Practices: Change your Demo Language from Me to You
Hey sales engineers… want an instant engagement boost in your demos? Change your demo language from “Click here to do XYZ…” to “If this was YOUR system, YOU would click here to do XYZ…”
Demo Best Practices: Ask Before You Show
The best sales engineers ASK before they SHOW. At some point in every demo your prospect is going to ask: “Does your product do XYZ?” What you do next can make or break the deal. Story time!
The 3 Presales Data Points Your CRO Needs to Know
The best presales leaders that we know bring 3 Presales Data Points to their CRO’s attention in sales forecast calls. Learn more about what they are and how they help you earn your seat at the table.
POC Best Practices: 7 Steps to POC/POV Success
Homerun Presales' shareable Evaluation Plans and interactive Customer Portal are a winning combination for running POCs/POVs. Here are our 7 steps to POC/POV success.
POC Best Practices: Evaluation Plans – The Key to Great POCs and POVs
Presales Leader: “Our POCs drag on and never seem to end.”
Homerun: “Do you create and share formal Evaluation Plans?”
Presales Leader: “Sort of…”
Homerun: “Well that’s sort of why they drag on. Let’s chat!”
Homerun Presales Announces SOC2 and GDPR Compliance
We are pleased to announce that Homerun Presales achieved both SOC2 and GDPR compliance in July 2022.
Presales Best Practices: 5 Essential Changes for Presales During a Downturn
Every deal matters during challenging economic times. Here are the 5 essential changes that every presales team needs to make right now in order to survive as a team and a company.
Coaching the Six Habits of Highly Effective Sales Engineers with Chris White
We had a wonderful time co-hosting our first in-person event last week with the amazing Chris White of Tech Sales Advisors at HanaHaus in Palo Alto, CA.
Homerun Presales and Consensus Integrate to Bring Demo Automation Data to Presales Teams
Homerun Presales, the workspace for high performing presales teams, announces today the launch of its integration with Consensus, the leading intelligent demo automation platform (DAP).
Presales Best Practices: Listen, Write It Down, Share
I recently worked at a pop-up pizza shop, and it reminded me how important it is for presales teams to write things down and share those things with others.
Presales Best Practices: How to Help Your Internal Customers
Presales Leader: “We deal with a lot of customers!”
Me: “Yeah, external AND internal.”
Presales Leader: “Umm… internal customers?”
Me: “Let’s talk.”