
The One Mistake to Avoid When Building Training for SaaS Applications
This post was originally published in February 2018 and updated in November 2021. SaaS applications are prized for their convenience and efficiency. However, one of their key benefits – the immediate availability of new features…

6 Technology Must-haves to Better Implement Your Sales Enablement Strategy
No one needs reminding how the world has been transformed by the pandemic. But it’s worth highlighting how the shift to remote working has influenced the way that B2B software companies sell their products and…

Instructor-led IT Training Vs. Self-paced: What’s More Important?
Whether for pre-sales demos or post-sales onboarding and training, software companies are shifting quickly from the passive, unidirectional, pre-packaged “presentation” to a much more engaging hands-on approach. The benefits of hands-on practice are significant and…

Still Using Webex, Zoom, or Teams for Your Customer Training? Here’s Why Hands-on Training Needs Specialist Tools
In the past 18 months, we have seen an incredible boom in the popularity of online training. For example, enrollments with Coursera were up 640% in 2020 over the year before. In line with this…

5 Tips for Converting Remote Software Demos in the Age of COVID-19
During the pandemic, changes in tech went into hyperdrive, as companies were faced with higher stakes during the switch to remote working. This meant rethinking sales processes almost overnight, with in-person demos and training sessions…

The Secret to Delivering Exceptional Customer Experiences With Google Cloud
For companies that need to demo software or provide customer education through training environments, using platforms like Google Cloud Labs is an attractive option. With a Google Cloud sandbox environment, you get access to a…

Why Public Clouds Are Not the Right Fit for Virtual Training
We hear it again and again from our new clients: “We built our own training lab environment on a public cloud, and we’ve discovered that it’s just not yielding the results we need…” What exactly…

Building Blocks for Virtual Training Solutions: How to Get Started, and Why
Imagine an end-user of your company’s software. They have just been given their login for the first time and are beginning to navigate their way around the platform. The tool seems great, and many of…

How Software Training Boosts Customer Retention
It’s a very, very well-quoted metric: it’s much more expensive to identify, market to, and acquire a new customer than to keep an existing one. There are plenty of supporting stats out there: Increasing customer…

Virtual Software Experiences That Impact Your Business’s Bottom Line
Ask the head of any department in your company which team is the most critical to the bottom line. Each will tell you – with absolutely valid reasoning – that without their group’s stellar performance,…

Why Cybersecurity Companies Must Provide Hands-on Training to Hospital Clients
It’s not easy running an IT department at a large medical organization these days, and the job is not getting any easier. Hospitals represent a prime target for cyberattacks for a variety of reasons: Medical…

How to Build a Successful Customer Experience Training Program
Organizations everywhere have discovered the importance of putting their customers at the center of everything. In this new, customer-centric paradigm, customer experience (CX) is key. However, to make it a success, businesses need to put…