{"id":38581,"date":"2025-06-23T16:46:07","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T16:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greatdemo.com\/?p=38581"},"modified":"2025-06-23T16:46:07","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T16:46:07","slug":"i-want-this-to-be-interactive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greatdemo.com\/i-want-this-to-be-interactive\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI Want This to Be Interactive\u2026!\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cHalf the world is composed of people who have something to say and can’t, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2013 Robert Frost<\/p>\n

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How many online and virtual demos start like this?<\/p>\n

Have you ever been in a situation where you or a colleague said, \u201cI\u2019d like this to be interactive, so please stop me if you have any questions along the way\u2026\u201d but what you or your colleague were really<\/em> thinking was, \u201cPlease don\u2019t stop me with questions because, if you do, I won\u2019t have time to show everything I want to show\u2026!\u201d?<\/p>\n

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Moral: Apply Inverted Pyramid to truly encourage and drive interactivity.<\/p>\n

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The incredibly useful Inverted Pyramid concept is introduced on page 15 in Great Demo!<\/em>: https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0C9SNKC2Y\/<\/a><\/p>\n

If you missed some of these posts, you\u2019ll find another dozen waiting for you at https:\/\/greatdemo.com\/blog\/<\/a><\/p>\n

And NONE of these posts are in \u201cSuspending Disbelief: A Collection of Sales, Presales, and Marketing Stories (and Lessons Learned).\u201d<\/em> These public posts are teasers! You can find this gem here: https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/yc7rsrmy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cHalf the world is composed of people who have something to say and can’t, and the other half who have nothing to say and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38582,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-38581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-humor","tag-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatdemo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatdemo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatdemo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatdemo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatdemo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38581"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/greatdemo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38584,"href":"https:\/\/greatdemo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38581\/revisions\/38584"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatdemo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatdemo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatdemo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatdemo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}