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How Aramex’s Young SAM Program Provides Strategic Value and Impact

Strategic Account Management Association

Form an organizational capability around co-creating products and solutions with our customers Redesign our philosophy around our customers’ needs Make a positive business impact on our customers’ operations Ingrain a deeply customer-centric vision and mission for sales. Its mission is to handle defined strategic key accounts.

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How to Identify Key Accounts: A Quick Guide to Getting it Right

Account Manager Tips

You're sitting on a goldmine of existing customers that: can deliver an above-average revenue growth; want to invest in your partnership; will co-create value in ways that neither of you could do alone. Portrait Software became a key account, and within 18 months, that partnership led to winning the larger Pitney Bowes business.

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The Power of Account-Based Marketing: A Thales Case Study

Cosawi

In our more traditional groups, marketing, and sales work in locked steps but it seems that the shift to strategic account management is often missing marketing when time comes to establish its roadmap. At Thales, this transformation began with the creation of a distinct role – account marketing.

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Maximizing Customer Retention: The Role of Key Account Management in Customer Success Management

DemandFarm

The rise of the digital era has changed the rules of the game. One that leverages Key Account Management (KAM) principles to retain customers and transform them into brand advocates. Challenges often arise due to misalignment among teams, lack of customer insights, poor communication, focus on short-term goals and inadequate resources.

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The Sliding Scale of Sales Transformation

Mike Kunkle

This includes an understanding of processes, political savvy, culture, collaboration, consensus building, and the ability to execute on all the above plans effectively. How to plan and organize effectively. Value Creation. Strategic Account Management. Sales Acumen. Business Acumen. Organizational Acumen. DESCRIPTION.

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Why Start a (True) Key Account Management Initiative?

KAM With Passion

The other most usual KAM-specific processes include: the selection and deselection of Key Accounts, resources allocation and alignment, the building and management of account teams and account plans, as well as goal setting for the short and medium term along multiple dimensions. A much higher customer orientation.

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Why ABM is essential to your business

Arpedio

ABM should be customer-led and team-enabled Sales and marketing need to co-orchestrate the account plan Mapping out the customer journey is absolutely crucial ABM starts with a mindset change and management needs to support this cultural shift Watch the LinkedIn Live session here. Re)Defining account-based marketing.