The Demo Conversion Trick That Lifted Our Close Rate

Rishabh Sharma 3 min readJuly 3, 2024

Ask for the objection

Mid-demo: 'What would stop you from moving forward next week?' Surface hidden objections while you can still address them.

End of demo: recap their goals, our fit, and the next step. 'Does this sound accurate?' creates the handshake before the CTA.

Not fake urgency. Real reason to move now — their fiscal year, a launch date, a quarterly goal. Anchor urgency to their timeline, not yours.

Despite the library of content most orgs build, reps use three things. Build these first.

MQL became meaningless. Here's the replacement metric we use and why sales stopped complaining.

A shift in how we prioritize — accounts over leads — and what changed in pipeline performance.

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