IN THE NEWS
04 2008
How to Create Marketing Demos That Sell Products by Amy Gesenhues
A professionally produced product demo can do wonders for your marketing initiatives. It can accelerate your sales cycle and generate qualified leads. You can leverage it on multiple platforms and within various campaigns, from your site to your tradeshow booth, on marketing CDs and in email marketing efforts. And when done right, a great demo can get everyone speaking the same language. But, before you begin building your demo, you have to answer the following four questions.
MarketingProfs.com
03 2008
Autodemo Heaven: Software Demos that Deliver Results by Amy Gesenhues
A professionally produced automated demo can initiate your sales cycle and qualify leads without wasting your sales team's time on cold prospects. They help reinforce consistent messaging by offering up a dynamic and engaging sales tool that keeps everyone on the same page from customer service reps to the Vice President of Sales. And best of all, automated demos can be leveraged across multiple platforms and within various campaigns to deliver maximum marketing ROI.
CustomerThink.com
10 2007
Who's Building Your Software Demo? by JC Stites
A professionally produced automated demo is one of the most effective sales and marketing tools you can have. It can initiate the sales cycle for you, generate qualified leads, and be leveraged across multiple platforms for maximum ROI. But for your software demo to be effective and make an impact on your marketing and sales initiatives, it has to shine.
SoftwareMag.com
07 2006
Turning Visitors into Customers
Converting visitors into customers is a blend of both art and science and, once it's understood, it's a skill that will reap rewards for a company's bottom line. "You don't want to make the user have to think," said Stites, [CEO of Autodemo LLC], "You need to provide things to him in a seamless way. Too many people think about how to make it easy to sell products and services. It's not about that. It's about how to make it easy to buy."
Practical Ecommerce
06 2006
Autodemo Adds High-Profile Clients
Autodemo LLC has signed 30 clients so far this year, bringing its total number of customers to 277. Among the software and Web demonstration firm's new clients are BlackBerry maker Research in Motion Ltd. and health care information technology firm Ingenix.
Business First
05 2006
How Much Is Your Sales Cycle Costing You? by JC Stites
How soon do your prospects get to see your software in action? If you make them wait too long, you may be losing hot prospects and spending too much time on unlikely leads. The sooner you are able to show your product, the more likely you are to qualify leads and close sales.
SoftwareMag.com, The IT Software Journal
03 2006
Leveraging Your Software Demo for Maximum ROI by JC Stites
When it comes to creating an effective software demo, building it is only half the battle. For a demo to achieve maximum results, it must be leveraged across multiple platforms.
Software Business Online
01 2006
The WOW Factor
For years, the PROPHIX sales pitch consisted of a string of live, one-on-one demonstrations. Desperate to shorten this lengthy sales cycle, PROPHIX turned to Autodemo for it's presentation technology and expertise.
Selling Power Magazine
06 30 2005
CouponCabin.com deploys Autodemos
By using rich media demos to show new customers how to use its online coupons,
CouponCabin.com has sharply reduced the number of calls to its call center, founder
Scott Kluth tells InternetRetailer.com
InternetRetailer.com 04 2005
Building the PERfect Online Demo by by
JC Stites
Your Web site wears many hats: it works as a marketing tool
to build your brand, provides detailed product information,
is your first line of defense for customer service contacts,
and, most importantly, facilitates your transactions. With
so much riding on your site's success, you need all the support you can get.
Electronic Retailer Magazine
03 28 2005
Getting Demonstrative with Users
Having a good demo makes online products more approachable for less
computer-savvy customers. One technology
writer explores who is doing it right in the financial
industry and why their demos work.
Securities Industry News
03 09 2005
IronPlanet
Brings How-To Demos to Online Auctions
IronPlanet now offers online demonstrations from Autodemo
to assist customers in buying trucks and heavy-equipment
over the Internet.
FleetOwner Magazine
12 13 2004
Make Your Demo a Gift Worth Getting by JC Stites
With the right packaging, your demo will excite prospects and become your strongest
lead generator. Unfortunately, creating a demo is more difficult than choosing
the right ribbon. Here is a list of the biggest mistakes to avoid.
BtoB Magazine
10 10 2004
Top Ten Awards Honor Tech Excellence
JC Stites awarded the Technology Entrepreneur award at the Technology Network
of the Greater Louisville Region annual Top TeN Awards for Excellence in Technology
dinner.
Business First
09 01 2004
Building
Demos that Drive Sales by JC Stites
How do you build a demo that you can trust your sales
team will use? Building an effective demo is a daunting
task, but worth it’s weight in gold when
done correctly.
ProductMarketing.com
06 04 2004
Web Company Continues to
Land Big Name Clients
Louisville-based
Autodemo LLC, a developer of software and Web demonstrations,
is accustomed to landing deals with big-name clients.
Business First
03 2004
Seeing Is Believing
How e-retailers are boosting
conversion rates with automated demonstrations of web sites.
InternetRetailer.com
02 02
2004
Practices: How Amazon Developed a Demo to
Help Confused Customers
Amazon uses Autodemo to build a
demo for their 1- Click ordering process. Learn how they
tested it and what they learned about Flash demo best practices
along the way.
MarketingSherpa.com
12 12 2003
Entrepreneur Magazine Radio Show Interviews JC Stites
Listen to The Entrepreneur Magazines Radio Show interview JC Stites on how he
led Autodemo to become the leading developer of web site and software demos.
The Entrepreneur Magazine Radio Show
07 30
2003
Beyond
the Fad: Macromedia’s Flash
Matures
Flash
animation is quickly becoming ubiquitous, thanks to the
prevalence of broadband and companies like Autodemo that
use it as the platform for its entire line of products.
ECommerce
Times
07 24
2003
Macromedia
Flash – The Bottom
Line
Rich-media
campaigns that once took two weeks to complete now take
only two days, thanks to a new system that streamlines
delivery of Flash advertisements.
ECommerce Times
04 03
2003
Finding Their Niche
Rich-media campaigns that
once took two weeks to complete now take only two days,
thanks to a new system that streamlines delivery of Flash
advertisements.
ECommerce Times
03 04 2003
22 Tips for Better Software Demos
What’s
Cool, What’s Hot, What’s Not
Three software companies give insight about their demo
experience and what to imitate when you create your own
demo.
SoftwareCEO.com
12
03 2002
Autodemo in New Demo Agreements
Autodemo LLC
of Louisville has agreed to develop Web demonstration programs
for Amazon.com Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Forbes.com and The New
York Times Company.
Business First
11
25 2002
Staying Focused
Autodemo weathered the technology
downturn last year by being ''dogged about being focused.''
Courier-Journal
11 20
2002
From the Trenches: Case Study of Forgent Networks,
Inc.
Forgent experiences more than 100 percent increase
in the leads they've been able to capture using the Autodemo
demonstration tools online.
BtoB Online
10
09 2002
Autodemo Prospers By Doing One Thing Well
Amazon.com,
Yahoo!, Forbes.com, and NYTimes.com Adopt siteseer Web
Demos.
Business Wire
09
25 2002
Leading
E-Businesses Adopt Autodemo’s
Siteseer Web Demos
Autodemo, the leading developer of software
and Web demos, today announced new contracts to develop
siteseer® Web
demos for Forbes.com, Yahoo! and the NYTimes.com.
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