{"id":36058,"date":"2024-09-25T20:33:22","date_gmt":"2024-09-25T20:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greatdemo.com\/?p=36058"},"modified":"2024-09-25T20:33:22","modified_gmt":"2024-09-25T20:33:22","slug":"stunningly-awful-demos-the-painful-irrelevance-of-setup-mode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greatdemo.com\/stunningly-awful-demos-the-painful-irrelevance-of-setup-mode\/","title":{"rendered":"Stunningly Awful Demos \u2013 The Painful Irrelevance of Setup Mode"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Or<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>How to Make Your Software Look Complicated, Confusing, Overwhelming, and Expensive<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Or<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>How Setup Mode Is Destroying Your Demos!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>A Never Stop Learning! Article<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Vendor: \u201cProgramming this system is so simple a six-year-old could do it!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Prospect: \u201cGreat: Find me a six-year-old!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>What\u2019s in This Article for You?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>An Astonishing Demo<\/li>\n<li>A Few Thought-Provoking Questions<\/li>\n<li>What Is Setup Mode?<\/li>\n<li>Monday Morning<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>An Astonishing Demo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I watched a ninety-minute recorded demo and noted two rather astonishing things:<\/p>\n<p>Astonishing Thing Number One:<\/p>\n<p>Approximately <em>half<\/em> of the demo was consumed by setup and configuration items, including setting up the environment, configuring the application, creating and editing templates, forms, reports, dashboards, etc.<\/p>\n<p>This wasn\u2019t astonishing on its own, perhaps, until\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Astonishing Thing Number Two:<\/p>\n<p>At the end of all this setup activity the vendor said proudly, \u201cOf course, you won\u2019t have to <em>do<\/em> any of this. We take care of it during implementation. It\u2019s all done by our Professional Services team\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wait. What did you say?<\/p>\n<p>You just spent <em>forty-five<\/em> minutes showing stuff your prospect will <em>never<\/em> need to use?\u00a0 (Enter your choice of an appropriate exclamation of surprise and astonishment here ______.)<\/p>\n<p>But wait, there\u2019s more: A bonus Astonishing Thing!<\/p>\n<p>(And you\u2019ll find the answer <a href=\"https:\/\/greatdemo.com\/stunningly-awful-demos-irrelevance-of-setup-mode\/\">here<\/a> \u2013 enjoy!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or How to Make Your Software Look Complicated, Confusing, Overwhelming, and Expensive Or How Setup Mode Is Destroying Your Demos! 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