The challenge - Helping customers succeed after the demo
When VEIKA launched DIMENSE, they knew they had something special: a technology that could turn flat walls into richly detailed surfaces in one single pass.
But as Technical Director Yuki Shimizu and Head of Marketing Renata Čižauskienė quickly realized, having a great product was only half the battle.
They were building a brand-new product in the digital printing market from scratch, and with it, a global go-to-market strategy. The question was: how do you market a product that people really need to see - and touch - to understand?
Trade shows helped. Seeing the texture up close, feeling it under your fingertips, watching the printer in action - that’s when people truly connected with it.
But what happened after the show ended? How do you keep that momentum going once the booth is packed up and people are back at their desks?
This is where things got tricky.
DG DIMENSE isn’t just in the business of selling printers - they sell the innovative technology behind them. And for that technology to succeed, people need to understand it fast.
New customers have to learn how it works, what makes it different, and what features and applications are available to them - so they can start printing and promoting their results with confidence. But the tools for that kind of enablement weren’t keeping up.
For years, follow-ups and training materials came in the form of long PDFs or hour-long tutorial videos. They weren’t bad, but they weren’t practical either.
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Busy customers and partners rarely had the time (or patience) to sit through everything in one go.
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PDFs had their own issues: they were slow to update in a fast‑moving industry where SKUs change constantly and new applications emerge.
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Sending out “updated” decks often backfired - recipients assumed it was the same as before and skipped it.
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Worse still, there was no way to know what was actually working, as sales had no visibility into engagement and marketing had no idea whether all their effort was driving real results - or getting lost in inboxes.
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On top of that, there was no control over what version of a deck was still circulating. With so many updates happening behind the scenes, no one could be sure if sales reps were using the latest materials - or an outdated version from three iterations ago.
Renata and Yuki knew that to make DG DIMENSE a fast-growing success, they needed a better way to onboard customers, support sales, and help new partners become successful ambassadors of the technology - all without losing the magic of seeing and touching the product up close.
And then they saw Storydoc.