Interactive Walkthroughs Increase Sales Opportunities and Reduce Costs

Converting prospects to buyers with interactive walkthroughs

CRM (customer relationship management) and ERP (enterprise resource planning) can help increase revenue growth and profitability for a business. CRM systems manage customer interactions, whereas ERP systems improve a business’ efficiency within its processes. Our client offers both solutions to help bring customers and businesses together. Using AI (artificial intelligence) insights, the technology leader uses intelligent business applications to help companies effectively manage and deliver results.

Every day, companies must create new ways to convert prospects into buyers. The way they showcase their applications plays a huge role in making those conversions happen. Going beyond the traditional ways of marketing a company’s offerings, guided interactive walkthroughs can offer prospects a more well-rounded experience as they consider whether to purchase the software.

A new way to showcase products

Our client sought Spur Reply’s expertise to create the first of seven guided experiences that demonstrated the benefits of its selected apps and products. We were later asked to create additional scenarios each quarter and maintain their updates with each wave release.

Our services were requested because the technology company wanted to offer business decision-makers (BDMs) more functionality and detail when previewing its applications. Compared to traditional product overview videos, interactive walkthroughs go into more detail for BDMs to test out the variety of solutions and products a company has to offer.

An interactive walkthrough, also referred to as a test drive scenario offers prospects a guided experience within which they can better grasp the capabilities of the powerful solutions. Further, an interactive walkthrough lowers costs related to free trial offerings as trials are expensive and not typically closely managed at end of the trial duration.

Building interactive scenarios

To achieve our shared goal, we needed to work closely with our client’s technical and core product managers to create scripts and screenshots for the test drive scenario, as well as the client’s web engineering team to help prioritize it on the company website.

With thorough and organized project management efforts, we worked with stakeholders to:

• Create a detailed project mapping of key deliverables and met key milestones
• Lead content creation with stakeholders
• Copy edit scripts from TPMs and CPMs
• Manage the relationship with the vendor responsible for user interface development
• Drive the implementation of guided interactive walkthroughs on the technology company’s website application overview pages

We later repeated this process to complete seven total guided experiences.

A prior project relationship with our client had shown the value we could bring to this collaboration. Our team leveraged prior experience to deliver quality content and incorporated rigorous project management experience to ensure goals and milestones were met on time.

Walkthroughs reduce overhead costs and boost sales opportunities

The joint effort resulted in the successful launch of the first of seven test drive scenarios on our client’s website. The guided interactive walkthrough gave BDMs an immersive experience in which they could better grasp the capabilities of our client’s applications and products in a tangible way.

Our collaboration resulted in an extension of our engagement with the technology giant to build additional scenarios. Our work also helped our client reduce the costs originally allocated to free trials. Finally, the test drive scenario increased opportunities within the sales funnel.