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What is Key Account Management? Strategy and Tips

Upland

Account planning and effective account management strategies are about much, much more than your key accounts. That said, any account manager worth their salt has a strategy for their key accounts. Sales map example for smaller accounts.

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9 Unexpected Reasons Why Key Account Management is Important

Account Manager Tips

Why is key account management important? Well, i f you don't have key account management in place, you could leave money on the table, be helpless to competitor threats and put your most valuable clients at risk of defection. Key account management is the secret to grow revenue and customer retention.

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What is Key Account Management? (It’s Not What You Think)

Account Manager Tips

Definition of key account management. If you're not sure what key account management is, don't worry, you're not alone. Before we get to that, let me explain how key account management became a business strategy. Sales people won the clients. Key account managers kept them.

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The 3 Pillars of Key Account Management

KAM With Passion

Are you in charge of a true Key Account Management initiative? A strong KAM initiative is always built on the following 3 Pillars: KAM infrastructure , Key Account Teams and Key Account Plans. The Charybdis and Scylla of Key Account Management are too much and not enough methodology.

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Key Account Management In Life Sciences

ProlifIQ

Core Facets Of Key Account Management In Life Sciences Managing relationships and building strategic plans to grow revenue across complex accounts is a part of day-today life for anybody in sales, marketing, or account management in the Life Sciences space.

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Account Planning Template

ProlifIQ

Account Planning Template for B2B Sales Teams You can steal the key account plan template we use with customers here. We’ll cover each part including: Business Overview Objectives & goals Relationship Mapping White Space (Expansion) Action Introduction: What is Account Planning?

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Drawing a line between Account & Key Account Management

KAM With Passion

The terms Account Management (AM) and Key Account Management (KAM) appear in a lot of business conversations and articles. Seen from a sales rep and sales team point of view, AM defines: How each customer is engaged as soon as they have purchased.