Test & Improve Presentation: Recommended Talking Points

This table summarizes Altify's recommended talking points when you're presenting your account plan to reviewers during a Test & Improve.

 

# Topics Plan Section Duration (approximate) Talking Points
1 At a high level, provide current status of the customer’s business and your success with the account. Plan Details 2 minutes
  • Customer profile: Describe the customer’s business, how they're performing, their growth plans, and the current state of executive and strategic relationships.
  • Customer success: Describe the customer’s purchase history, overall customer health and level of satisfaction, the current state of active projects, and business impact realization.
2 Where you want to take the account and point out potential barriers. Plan Details 5 minutes
  • Goal and growth strategies: Present your account goal, your growth strategies, and the barriers and risks that affect the strategies.
3 Summarize total account revenue and pipeline. Opportunity Map 2 minutes
  • Use top line to summarize your current position to plan target: the dollar value and unit quantity value of potential, current and won opportunities.
4 Target account focus. Opportunity Map 10 minutes
  • Level of relationship for all targeted accounts.
  • Relationship map:
    • Describe who are the most important people in your map and why.
    • Describe their status, coverage and who provides that coverage.
    • Coverage gaps.
  • Insight map:
    • Go top to bottom or bottom to top.
    • Point out important issues facing the customer.
    • Reference two specific opportunities on your opportunity map.
    • Describe what you need in order to understand more.
  • White space plan: Key potential opportunities and blocked solutions.
5 Our account team’s objectives. Objectives 3 minutes
  • Present the team’s high-priority objectives.
6 Finish your presentation with your "asks". Plan Details 3 minutes
  • Explain what your requests are of the audience. ("Here’s where I need help".)
  • Required investments.