Success stories with your product/service

When you are giving use case examples to potential customers, do you use a story that you actually learned about personally? Or do you use a story that was given to use as an example to help sell?


Over time I've gotten pretty good at telling the difference when a salesperson is telling me one vs the other. For me, when they are using a generic example it doesn't tend to have the same emotion and just doesn't resonate the same.

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Chep
WR Officer
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Bitcoin Adoption Specialist
If I have a personal story will always use that, but when I don't I go with the typical use-case story.
Bittersweet0326
Politicker
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Digital Business Associate
Thatโ€™s a good point. I donโ€™t always have a personal story based on the situation.
Maximas
Tycoon
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Senior Sales Executive
Good one!
Beans
Big Shot
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Enterprise Account Executive
Social Proof!

Always highlight those in the same space that are having success with your product.ย 
chubbspeterson
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Business Development
I've learned to build "we hear a lot from our current customers that...." or, "often times organizations that face similar struggles as you are telling us...." and I find these to be effective for those generic examples, but I'm not gonna lie, I'm sure I sound more genuine and convincing when I'm sharing a story from first hand experience.ย 
Bittersweet0326
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Digital Business Associate
Yea Iโ€™m sure you do, I think everyone does but Iโ€™m not sure everyone realizes it
funcoupons
WR Officer
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I try and use first hand experience stories as much as possible. We also use each other's stories and claim them as our own.
Bittersweet0326
Politicker
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Digital Business Associate
Yea I have a few in my back pocket that I use but if the Convo goes a different direction I will use one of those community stories.
Salespreuner
Big Shot
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Regional Sales Director
Use cases most of the times with relevant domains. That's how I use
Blackwargreymon
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MDR
Always highlight those in the same space that are having success with your product.ย 
Clashingsoulsspell
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ISR
I have one personal story I use pretty consistently with the data to back it up and it works like a charm
MR.StretchISR
Politicker
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ISR
If I have a personal story will always use that, but when I don't I go with the typical use-case story.
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