Crunched Blog

By Ashley Furness of Software Advice Two telecom sales reps recently stopped by my office to pitch executives on their latest solution. Both toted iPads, which I assume were loaded with dazzling interactive presentations and other tools for elevating the pitch. But neither rep turned on their device. This got me wondering, did they plan for how… Read More

Topics: Ashley Furness, Crunched, iPad, powerpoint presentation, sales pitch, sales presentation, tablet

What You Really Need to Know Before Your Next Sales Presentation   How many boring sales presentation have you sat through?  You know the ones… full of text and bullet points with someone reading word-for-word off the slides asif you were five!  You sit there and count the minutes until its over. DOWNLOAD YOUR FREE… Read More

Topics: presentations, sales, sales pitch, sales presentations

With our revolutionary online sales pitch automation platform CrunchConnect kicking some serious butt now, we are in full swing sales and customer on-boarding mode ourselves here at SalesCrunch. In fact, as we started ramping several new sales teams onto the platform every day, we have been debating how much training and hand-holding of our customers is… Read More

Topics: sales pitch

Part 1:  How to Design Stunning Sales and Investor Presentations with Jan Schultink of IdeaTransplant “Basics of Slide Design” We are thrilled to finally share this series of videos with you from our recent event at NYU called How to Design Stunning Sales and Investor Presentations. Jan Schultink of IdeaTransplant traveled from Tel Aviv to… Read More

Topics: Crunched, design, IdeaTransplant, Jan Shultink, presentations, sales pitch

Mark Suster joined us a couple of weeks ago at an event called How to Design Stunning Sales and Investor Presentations with Jan Schultink. This video is Part 3 of Suster’s discussion on The Important of the Narrative. There was so much great knowledge shared that evening from Mark, Jan and Sean that we will… Read More

Topics: presentations, relationship building, sales pitch, storytelling, VC

Mark Suster joined us a couple of weeks ago at an event called How to Design Stunning Sales and Investor Presentations with Jan Schultink. This video is Part 2 of Suster’s discussion on The Important of the Narrative. There was so much great knowledge shared that evening from Mark, Jan and Sean that we will… Read More

Topics: presentations, relationship building, sales pitch, storytelling, VC

    The Standard Scripted Sales Pitch Died Last Millennium – 7 Steps to a Better Sales Pitch (original article by Art Siegal may be found here) Many sales reps talk about giving a “standard sales presentation” that works best for them. For most of us, the more calls we make, more likely we are… Read More

Topics: presentations, sales pitch

  As business owners we know that branding our business is important, but what about branding ourselves? Marla Tabaka interviews Dan Schawbel, the leading personal branding expert for Gen-Y. The New York Times calls him a “Personal Branding Guru” and you’ll often hear his name tossed around in the same sentence as Seth Godin‘s. (original… Read More

Topics: sales pitch

The sun is finally out. The weather is warming up. It’s the perfect time to wake up that pitch and and inject some energy into your… VOCABULARY! So, read John Mongilla the Sales Cowboy‘s tips on how to shake things up a bit and be that guy that stands out from the rest. original article… Read More

Topics: presentations, sales pitch

Ah – it is April and many of us on the east coast are facing snow and sleet and some pretty cold weather today. We know Spring is right around the corner, but for now we must rely on patience and persistence to get us there.  This reminded me of an article I came across… Read More

Topics: presentations, sales pitch