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What's your experience with getting participants to speak to you for win/loss interviews?

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  1. I have found that customers are more willing to share their experiences in win-loss interviews than you might think. The keys are to: Make it clear that you're not going to sell them. Make sure that the outreach doesn't sound like another outbound email.  Position yourself as neutrally as possible. The purpose is to help improve the product, more than improving marketing or sales. (That information will come anyway if you ask the right questions.)  Respect their time. Ask for 20-30 minutes (depe ...Read More

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  2. Clint Burgess
    Clint Burgess

    Bloomreach Sr. Director of Product Marketing • 1y

    We ran a program at my last company and were able to get about 125 interviews with buyers per year. Our tips were: Timing is critical. Reach out right after the deal closes. Immediately. Every day lowers your chance of getting an interview. If you can, build some automation from your CRM (we created a trigger from Salesforce that would notify us the minute a deal was closed). If you wait until after the implementation, they will be biased by their implementation experience (good or bad). The goa ...Read More

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