Friday, March 23, 2007

Sales Demo Tool hosts web demos and presentations

Featuring 24-bit color and 1-button menu, Glance v2.0 enables sales staff to provide prospects with enhanced communication experience by combining phone call with ability to present sales pitch or demo an application from any PC, Mac, or Linux computer. Prospects enter demos instantly from their own website, without having to download web conferencing software. Presentations can include any application, PowerPoint illustration, graphic art design, or 3D rendering.

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- Latest Release Adds Full Color and Even Faster Speeds to its Dependable

One-Button Sales Demo Tool

Arlington, Mass. - September 20, 2005 - Glance Networks, creators of the

"one-button simple" GlanceT screen sharing service, today announced version

2.0, which adds full 24-bit color, faster screen update speeds and easy
customer website integration. Used primarily as a sales tool for hosting

instant web demos and presentations, Glance provides a quick and dependable

web demo service. It includes "Guests Connect for FreeT" flat-rate pricing

and the ability to connect instantly to nearly any PC, Mac or Linux computer

without downloading software.

"Simplicity and ease of use have been two challenges inhibiting mass

adoption of web conferencing," observes Mike Gotta, principal analyst,

Burton Group. "There's an underserved audience within this market that

simply wants to deliver a richer communication experience by combining a

phone call with the sharing of a screen. The ability to present a sales

pitch or demo an application should be a natural part of the conversation."

Sales professionals know they need to make every call count. A single

botched demo or presentation can cost them a sale. Whether showing a

software application, pitching a presentation, filling out a form or walking

through a website, sales people need a demo service that is as reliable as

their phone. Their ideal service would be:

oDependable - Their 9:00 a.m. demos need to start at 9:00 a.m., not 9:15

a.m. The service needs to connect the first time, every time.

oFast - Their prospects should enter demos instantly from their own website,

without wasting time downloading complicated web conferencing software.

oSimple - Their guests should be able to focus on the demo, without

distractions from unnecessary web conferencing buttons and menus.

"When we needed a simple, reliable sales tool to walk clients through a

demonstration of our software applications, we turned to Glance," commented

Steven Green, president at PollStream Inc., a direct response software

solution that makes it easy to engage customers in a two-way conversation.

"We tried other conferencing services with frustrating results, experiencing

technical problems with downloads and such. All we wanted was reliability

and ease of use at a reasonable price. Glance 2.0 fits the bill for quick

web demos and sales presentations."

Over 2,000 companies worldwide use Glance for demonstrating their products

online and giving sales presentations. Glance recently interviewed users

from over 100 of these companies. The most common reasons they cited for

having selected Glance are that the service is:

oReliable - Their prospects can connect instantly from nearly any PC, Mac or

Linux computer, even highly secured machines that cannot download software.

oFast - They nearly always connect without installing any software.

oCustomer-centric - Prospects can join their demos from the sales person's

own web page or company website. The demos start and end on web pages

customized with their company's look and call-to-action.

oColorful - Their sales staff can show any application, PowerPoint

illustration, graphic art design or 3D rendering to prospects, now in full

24-bit color, directly from their PC screen.

oEasy - Customers report that even people uncomfortable with technology find

Glance easy to use. Their sales staffs often master its one-button menu in

their very first demo.

"Nearly every salesperson who has used a traditional web conferencing

service to host sales demos can tell some gut-wrenching story about a hot

deal that went cold when their web demo didn't connect," says Dr. Rich

Baker, CEO of Glance Networks. "We increasingly find that sales prospects

are not allowed to download the software needed to join a web conference or

they are on a traditionally unsupported machine, like a Mac or UNIX box. And

often, they get confused or frustrated by a bunch of unfamiliar buttons or

windows. Companies need a web service designed specifically for sales demos.

Glance 2.0's simple design makes it possible for prospects to connect

instantly from nearly any computer, without the risk or confusion of

downloading unfamiliar software. And the better their demo experience, the

more likely the sale."

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