Best Practices

 The Power Of Translation Tools In today's interconnected world, your next big customer could be anywhere. But are your demos ready to speak their language? While English might be the lingua franca of the business world, a truly impactful demo resonates with the audience in their native tongue. This is where voice translation comes in, and it's easier to implement than you might think.For users of a powerful demo automation platform like Consensus, creating and sharing compelling demos is second nature. But what if you could take that impact and multiply it across different regions and languages? The good news is, you can. Modern AI-powered tools are making it incredibly simple and cost-effective to translate your demos, opening up a world of new opportunities. The Power of a Localized Demo Imagine sending a demo to a prospect in Japan, and they hear a flawless Japanese voiceover, perfectly lip-synced with your video. The immediate sense of connection and understanding can be a game-ch

 Using AI to Enhance Your Demo Script Writing Creating compelling demo scripts can be a challenging task, requiring a keen understanding of your product, target audience, and key messaging. By leveraging AI tools, you can streamline this process to craft engaging scripts that resonate with your prospective buyers. In this article, we'll explore how AI can help you write your scripts and how to build an intelligent agent using documents and knowledge similar to a Gem for your first draft. The Power of AI in Script WritingAI-driven tools have revolutionized the way we approach content creation. Specifically, when writing demo scripts, AI can assist in:Generating initial drafts. Refining language to better meet audience expectations. Ensuring consistency in tone and messaging across multiple demos. Building Your AI AgentTo effectively utilize AI for scriptwriting, you will need to build an intelligent agent. Think of this agent as a digital assistant that gathers and processes relevant in

Sound Like a ProElevate Your Demo Audio in Minutes with Adobe Podcast You’ve poured hours into perfecting your product demo. The visuals are crisp, the walkthrough is seamless, but what about the audio? A tinny, echo-filled, or noisy voiceover can instantly undermine the professionalism of your presentation, distracting viewers and diminishing the impact of your message. Fortunately, you don’t need a state-of-the-art recording studio to achieve crystal-clear audio. The secret weapon you might be overlooking is Adobe Podcast.  Originally designed with podcasters in mind, this powerful, free, AI-driven tool is a game-changer for anyone creating demos, tutorials, or online presentations that can transform your amateur audio into studio-quality sound with just a few clicks. The Magic of AI-Powered Audio Enhancement Adobe Podcast’s speech enhancement tool analyzes your audio file and intelligently filters out background noise, reduces echo and reverb, and equalizes your vocal tones to make

Understanding and Enhancing Your Demo View Rate with Consensus In the world of B2B sales, keeping an eye on demo view rates can really help you understand how engaged your buyers are. In this article, we'll explore why these view rates matter so much and show you how Consensus can help enhance them. What is View Rate?The view rate shows the percentage of recipients who take the time to open and enjoy your demo videos. This metric is super important because it reflects how interested and engaged your audience is with your content. A higher view rate often means more buyers are intrigued, which can lead to quicker sales and better closing rates. Only views from external email domains are counted in Demolytics. A DemoBoard counts only if at least one recipient has an external email domain; if all recipients are internal, it will not count. Thus, to be included in the denominator and potentially contribute to the numerator (having a view), a DemoBoard must have at least one external recipi

Master One Demo Type: Start Simple with Vision and Micro Demos Understanding the diverse demo types available on the Consensus platform is crucial to enhancing buyer engagement and streamlining your sales processes. However, diving headfirst into creating all available demos might seem daunting and can overwhelm both you and your prospects. While there are six main demo types (there are more), let's discuss why starting with a Vision or Micro Demo can set you on a path to success.  90% of our demo content consists of videos that are 3 minutes or less. While it can be exciting to make full length demo content, the reality is, it slows us down both in the recording and the editing process. Additionally, those demos rarely get viewed as most buyers want to interact and engage with shorter content. I would advise any new creator to start simple, start small, and make quick, engaging content. With this approach, you’ll make more content faster, scaling your teams while providing buyers with

 Unlocking Buyer Engagement with Consensus Interactive Product Tours Watch a Video Demo about Interactive Product ToursWelcome to an era of unprecedented buyer engagement and efficiency with Consensus Interactive Product Tours. These tours are a game-changer for sales engineers, solution consultants, account executives, and marketing teams committed to delivering personalized, impactful product experiences to their prospects.At Consensus, we understand that today’s B2B buyers need more than just data—they crave comprehensive and engaging experiences that allow them to interact with the product on their terms. Interactive product tours are designed to fulfill this need by combining immersive video content, product demonstrations, and discovery automation into one seamless experience.What are Interactive Product Tours?Interactive Product Tours come in two forms; Story Paths Tours and Dynamic Tours. These tools are buyer-centric explorations of your product that use clickable elements, an

Best Practice: Minimizing the Visibility of the Cursor during Playback Minimizing the visibility of cursor movement tends to enhance the viewer experience there are a few tactics you can leverage to do so. Practice makes perfect:  Before recording try going through the click path a few times so you know exactly where to click without hesitation. That way when you are recording you move the cursor exactly each time to each click. This will minimize the potential for your cursor to go off course and lead the viewer astray. Don’t touch the mouse: While waiting for pages, visuals, UI, etc., to load take your hand off the mouse while you wait as most builders tend to move the mouse around unconsciously. This will minimize the viewer from seeing any unnecessary movements that could be distracting.  Changing the cursor target to 5 or 10 pixels:Interactive Product Tour is available here.  To help minimize the visibility of the cursor while recording you can change the ClickTarget - Diameter to

Best Practices for creating winning experiences with Automated Product Simulations (APS) As part of our Product Experience Platform, Automated Product Simulations (APS) bring a wealth of interaction right when your buyers are feeling the most pressure; they’ve investigated the vendors, organized their project deliverables and made promises to their leaders about valuable outcomes.So there’s a very real risk to buying the wrong solution - how do you help these buyers though this tense time and give them the confidence to make that next step.Automated Product Simulations usher in game changing capabilities to you and your team, allowing buyers to experience your software without any hassle. It's a perfect tool to simplify the buying journey and increase engagement. The problem with Proof of Concepts.Often, a Proof of Concept (POC) is used to help buyers see the ‘reality’ of what they’re buying. But they’re costly and complicated, and with SaaS products being updated so frequently, they r

Interactive Product Tour is available here.  Best Practice: How to loop an Intelligent Discovery Flow Looping a Intelligent Discovery Flow allow you to deliver and endless product tour experience with minimal friction. A lot of customer have asked us how to loop an Intelligent Discovery Flow (IDF). To start this off let’s first talk about why someone would want to do that and what does “loop” mean? Looping an IDF means that when an Interactive Product Tour (IPT) finishes can you take a viewer back to the beginning or allow the viewer to choose another option of a tour to experience.  Why you may want to do that is simple, if you are using an email gate they would only need to enter their email address in once; lower the friction and creating a better viewer experience. It also allows you to capture all the buyer intent in a single session. When you loop IDFs onto themselevs you allow a viewer to stay in a single session and pick multiple IPTs to experience. Now that you know what “loop

Those who visited Demofestx will have had a chance to see our new Interactive Product Tours in action and get their hands on it.So here for Customer Hub folks check out this article about changing brand settings which includes one you can try out any time you like. 😊😎  Have fun!Mark

This is a great place to chat about best practice, but did you know we’ve got some tried and tested Best Practice Masterclasses in our Knowledge Base too? https://hub.goconsensus.com/use-case-masterclasses-38 If you’re in Marketing, Sales, Presales or anyone post-sale too like Customer Success, there’s top tips and guidance to help you.

Exciting News for Consensus Users!We're thrilled to announce the launch of new templates designed to make creating interactive video demos faster and more collaborative. Whether you're using Camtasia or ScreenPal, our templates offer a streamlined approach to crafting engaging and effective presentations. Getting started has never been easier.Why Use Our Templates?Save Time: Our pre-designed templates provide a solid foundation, allowing you to focus on your content rather than starting from scratch. Enhance Collaboration: Easily share templates with your team, ensuring consistent branding and messaging across your video demos. Improve Efficiency: Benefit from pre-set layouts, styles, and elements, reducing the time it takes to create professional-looking videos.How to Get Started:Access the templates at the bottom of this article. Choose a template that aligns with your needs. Customize the template with your specific content and branding.Start creating more impactful video demos toda

 3 steps to your most influential demo everSat on a beautiful warm day in Surrey all those years ago in my psychology class at Farnborough college, a spark ignited into a love of learning WHY people think what they think, say what they say and do what they do.The psychology behind crafting an effective message is what gets me out of bed every day. A bold statement indeed, but to wield the ability to connect successfully with other people feels like a super-power, and one I’m lucky to have. It’s shaped my whole career, and today I’m sharing my passion with you.  Step 1. Bryan StephensonMore than 10 years ago, I released myself from the confines of IT and moved into presales, where my passion for customer service and effective messaging flourished in an ever-expanding role where connecting with people is as or more important than the technology itself.In 2012 Bryan Stephenson, lawyer and long-time advocate of social and legal injustice, crafted his message about the hard truths of millio