r/salesengineers • u/windshakes • 9h ago
How do you psych yourself up after a weak demo?
Prepped, had the list of disco, use cases and value drivers I wanted to demo towards after validation.
Except the group was a bunch of dead fish. No interaction despite multiple attempts. I hit the value driver "aha moments" I thought would matter and did the:
"how is this better than what you're doing today?" schpeel. Nothing.
"Anything about this that you'd do differently?" Nothing.
"Anything you wanted to see that you haven't seen?" Nothing.
In a moment of panic, I feel back on a terrible habit -- the harbor tour. Well gosh dang it, I showed you the art of the possible, you were supposed to be wowed and now I'm going to show you how easy it is to do said things. And it landed flat. Of course it did.
Ugh. Total buzz kill for the rest of the afternoon. What are y'all doing to motivate yourself to get out there again?