You will definitely need to demo your software product in case you need to gather end-user feedback, close a sale, simply explain how your product works, sooner or later, or show progress to your customer.
Audience's Expectations should be managed
Obviously, sometimes you must have gone to watch a movie that everyone raved about and then came out totally disappointed? Sometimes you feel that the movie was worse than you anticipated and did not meet your expectations.
Similarly, they're about to see a finished product like hypersnap if people show up to a demo thinking. They expect it to be user-friendly, aesthetically pleasing, and virtually defect-free. However, these audiences become much more lenient if they get to know beforehand that you're presenting a throwaway prototype. And to make your work in progress they will happily provide much-needed feedback.
Through a successful demo, it is difficult to manage the expectation of the audiences. Always make sure that you set the expectations of the audience’s right if you want them to walk away from your presentation pleasing. Make sure you are honest with them. Never try to oversell your demo. You just have to sell it and try to over deliver.
One Bad Apple Spoils the Whole Bunch
One person can screw up the whole demo. Your demo can become a disaster if someone constantly interrupts you demo only because he/she likes to hear the sound of his/her own voice or if they start critiquing negatively each and every single widget in your application. Make sure that these bad apples are not shown in your presentation.
A couple of ways given below so that you can keep the bad apples away from attending your demo:
For those bad apples, you can create conflict regarding the schedule. Always be sure that they are busy in some work or are out of the office while you are presenting your demo.
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