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How to Boost Sales Productivity with Account Planning

Upland

Sales productivity involves how efficiently and effectively a sales team can generate revenue—while managing costs and resources, building customer relationships, and staying competitive in the market. In a world with account planning, sales productivity is greater, revenue rises, and customers are better served.

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Buying Groups – How to Navigate Complex Buyer Structures

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Many sellers, however, choose to ignore the changing times and do not plan for buying journeys with multiple decision-makers. In a recent webinar , Seth Marrs, Forrester’s Principal Analyst, pointed to the fact that most sellers are still not accounting for just how complex sales and buying cycles have become.

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Enablement is Hard. Do It Anyway.

Mike Kunkle

Remain somewhat pessimistic during the planning, if it helps maintain realism and avoid rose-colored glasses or what I call “Hope Goggles” (see this post from Effectiviology on a pessimism bias and when it can be helpful), but get out of self-pity mode quickly, to decide your course of action. Get it out of your system.

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Best Practices for SaaS Companies and Vendors with Nigel Cullington of Upland Software

Upland

The Four Most Important Best Practices Inspired by Sales Leaders Nigel outlines four key areas businesses need to focus on to excel at account planning. First and foremost, Nigel highlights the importance of knowing who your key buyers are, and deeply understanding them. Can we compete and win that deal?

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Sandbagging in Sales – Is it a Relationship Problem? 

Upland

While at first, these questions might appear distinct, at heart they are all asking the same thing – how effectively has the team been able to build relationships in the account? Failure to build those relationships is often what causes things like sandbagging to occur. What is Sandbagging in Sales? What’s the next step?

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Account Management Guide – Defend and Grow Revenue

Upland

Through a combination of best practices, relationship mapping, and account planning, sellers and account managers can retain their status as trusted advisors, and keep the howling, lone wolves at bay. This will help you to develop tailored account plans for each account. Account planning, however, is not a once-and-done activity.

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Book review – Managing Brands

Red Star Kim

The course also offers a helpful brand creation plan and a brand plan template (brand essence, brand assets, brand protection and brand strategy). When a company creates a strong brand it attracts customer preference and builds a defensive wall against competition” ( Peter Doyle , Warwick Business School).