Demo
See it with somebody walking you through, before touching anything
The fifteen-day trial is fine for anyone who wants to get in and have a poke around. A buying committee usually prefers half an hour with a person who can answer what they are going to be asked internally. That is what this is.
Your email client opens with the outline already written. Nothing is sent until you press send.
What to tell us in the email
- How many of you there are and how many work away from a desk
- How many sites, branches or member organisations, and whether they are spread out
- Whether the people who will be reading are on your payroll or are members, registrants or volunteers
- What you use today: email, the noticeboard, messaging or another tool
- What is a must-have for you and what is nice to have
- Whether a committee or a board has to approve this, and by when
With that much we can tell you by email, before we meet, whether Blastack is any use to you. Sometimes the answer is no, and we save you the meeting.
The meeting
What happens in that half hour
Half an hour, over a video call
Not an hour and a half, and not forty slides. We go straight into the tool, with a sample company already set up and data inside it.
It is run by the people who built the product
We are a small team and here that works in your favour: when you ask whether something can be done, the answer comes there and then and it is the truth, not a 'let me check and get back to you'.
You see what you are actually going to use
Tell us beforehand how many sites you have and what you need to solve, and we build the example around that: targeting by site, the read receipt on a procedure, the anonymous survey or the reach dashboard.
And what we don't do
We set aside time specifically for the list of what we don't have today, so it doesn't turn up in week three of the trial. It is the part of the meeting we care about most.
If employee representatives are involved
What we can do besides the demo
In a company of two thousand people, this is not decided by whoever books the demo. These four things are free and commit you to nothing.
- Answer your IT department's security questionnaire in writing
- Send the data processing agreement over for your legal team to review
- Sit in on the meeting with your employee representatives and answer what they ask
- Prepare the comparison table against the other tool you are looking at
What this isn't
- There is no qualification process and no budget questionnaire first.
- There is no discount for signing before the end of the month: the price is published and that is the price.
- We are not going to ring you every fortnight. If you are interested, you'll email us.
- We don't collect anybody's details unless they have written to us: the contact form is optional and asks only for what we need to reply.
There are few of us, so the demo might not be tomorrow. We always reply, and we say when.
Or go in and look for yourselves
The trial is fifteen days with no card and it doesn't start charging on its own. Plenty of people would rather have a play for an afternoon before asking for a meeting, and that is a perfectly sensible way to start.