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

Account Manager Tips

Is your solution a good fit and does it meet your clients’ needs compared to other suppliers? To what extent will your customers invest in the relationship and view you as a strategic supplier? Clients who believe in joint success and consider you a strategic supplier. Revenue is a vanity number without profit.

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20 Strategic Planning Models to Consider

ClearPoint Strategy

For example, Kim and Mauborgne explain via their 2004 Harvard Business Review article how Cirque du Soleil didn’t attempt to operate as a normal circus, and instead carved out a niche for itself that no other circus had ever tried. The bargaining power of suppliers. Porter’s Five Forces. The bargaining power of customers.