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Hello Operator

Paul Stansik

Leadership and operating philosophy for investors and investor-backed executives. Written by a private equity operating partner.

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It’s springtime. Which means it’s officially conference season.

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Most software demos fail for one reason: the person running the demo decides what to show before the prospect ever joins the call.

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Sell The Meeting. Not the Product.

Man, this email made me feel great.

And it reinforces a super-important idea re: what it takes to create more leads:

"Sell the meeting. Not the product."

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How to Improve Performance

  1. 95%+ of business problems have been solved before. The hard part isn’t figuring out what to do. The hard part is making it actually happen.

  2. If you can find non-annoying ways to keep reminding people (over and over) of something yo...

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I want you to think about the last time you thought about buying a software product for work. Now I want you to think about what the demo for that product was like.

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