Build your sales demo planner.
Plan sales demos around the customer's problem and a clear success question.
How to build your sales demo planner
Describe the job
Plan sales demos around the customer's problem and a clear success question.
Review the first version
Choose how the sales representative records the account and how the account owner reviews the next step.
Refine the views
Ask First to adjust the fields and views for the people who will use the app.
Test before sharing
Walk through the process with a sample record and check who owns the next action.
A sales demo planner example
A demo promises to show approval routing but uses a sample with no reviewer.
Sales demo planner example
- Record
- Sales demo planner · 01
- Owner
- Sales representative
Current stage · Sales representative
Open the account
A demo promises to show approval routing but uses a sample with no reviewer.
Read the full walkthrough
Open the account
A demo promises to show approval routing but uses a sample with no reviewer.
- Record:
- Sales demo planner · 01
- Owner:
- Sales representative
Review the success question
Add a fictional reviewer and a rejection case before confirming that the scenario is ready.
- Stage:
- Awaiting account owner review
- Owner:
- Account owner
Keep the sample scenario aligned to the account's stated objective
Keep the sample scenario aligned to the account's stated objective.
- Next action:
- Keep the sample scenario aligned to the account's stated objective.
- Owner:
- Sales manager
What to include in your sales demo planner
Keep the account in context
Keep account, demo objective, scenario, required sample, owner and success question together so the next person can understand the request or record.
When the next step needs a decision
A demo promises to show approval routing but uses a sample with no reviewer. Add a fictional reviewer and a rejection case before confirming that the scenario is ready.
Keep success question visible
Keep the sample scenario aligned to the account's stated objective.
Choose what each person needs
Give the sales representative a working view and the account owner a review view. Keep account and demo objective attached to the decision as the work moves between them.
Questions about sales demo planner
Start with account, demo objective, scenario, required sample, owner and success question. Describe who enters the information and who reviews the next step.