Mike Kunkle

OCTOBER 8, 2023

Keep this in mind as you read this article, and adapt and adopt what makes sense for you in your current context. It’s about fine-tuning your processes and strategies to ensure that interested prospects take the desired action – whether it’s signing up for a trial, requesting a demo, moving to the next step, or making a purchase.

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Account Manager Tips

MAY 25, 2021

You might think your biggest accounts or your most complex accounts are your most valuable customers. Key accounts can be big or small, local or global. Because what makes a key account is its future value. Establishing influential business relationships with decision-makers is a primary goal. For everyone.

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Account Management Skills

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

I was chatting to one of my clients recently about the benefits of introducing account management in their agency for the first time. As a small, agile team it makes sense for project managers to be responsible for client management. When you start an agency, typically you start with project management.

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Account Management Skills

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

But even if you don’t, hopefully it’ll make you think about your client’s budget. Listen to the results and study breakdown (512 marketing decision makers) on Drew McLellan’s Agency Management Institute’s podcast. What does this mean for account managers responsible for account growth?:

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Account Manager Tips

OCTOBER 11, 2021

You need to take charge, make decisions and set goals for your customers so they can achieve success. What changes should we make? How do we make changes? Not focused on the customer The biggest mistake you can make with clients is to put your needs first. Warwick Brown // Account Manager Tips.

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Janek Performance Group: Account Planning

OCTOBER 25, 2023

This makes account planning essential. More than upselling and cross-selling, account planning is partnering with existing clients. Plus, with account planning, 74 percent see increased win rates. However, according to Gartner , 51 percent of sales leaders agree account management channels fall short.

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ProlifIQ

APRIL 3, 2023

Below are a few ways that an account plan can help solve these issues. Account Action Plan Relationship Mapping: Understanding who the main decision-makers in your key accounts are is critical. One key account planning tool is multi-threading.

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Sales Readiness Group

JANUARY 5, 2022

Professionally Resolve Issues: A customer-driven sales organization doesn’t mean making decisions that are uneconomic or not in your company’s best interest. There is nothing more frustrating to a customer than silence and one bad experience can destroy a lot of goodwill.

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SalesGlobe

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Account planning can become an exercise in management and administration that ends up in a file until next year when the account team realizes they didn’t accomplish what they set out to do. What Are the Executives’ Decision-Making Styles? What Are Your Challenges Working with the C-Suite? Who is the Company?

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Janek Performance Group: Account Planning

JULY 25, 2023

For salespeople, this means tighter budgets, more decision makers, and longer sales cycles. This makes effective account planning essential. Here, 72 percent of respondents said that account planning increased their understanding of their clients’ business. Are decision makers taking calls?

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 15, 2019

Not only can you look at revenue trends over time, but you can also compare MRR to the monthly sign up rate for your product or service, monthly account growth rate, and customer retention. By looking at the total MRR, they can make more accurate sales forecasts and projections. What Is MRR?

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SmartKarrot

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Playbooks can be created for any business scenarios, but for the sake of brevity, we will take the example of three critical ones: customer onboarding, issue resolution and, account growth. A flowchart or decision tree to guide CSMs through the resolution process, including when to escalate issues to other departments.

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SalesPop

APRIL 30, 2021

You can indicate that, marketing them as an influencer, a decision-maker, an amplifier, a champion, or even a detractor. Once again we’ll quote the RAIN group, from their white paper Competencies of Strategic Account Managers : “If you’re going to drive value proactively, a variety of people will need to do a variety of things.

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DemandFarm

MAY 12, 2023

Here are three examples where this breaks How does funnel make sense if 67% of the sales cycle is completed on digital channels before contacting the company? This stream is also the biggest contributor for the account growth. Revenue streams should shape your sales and marketing approaches.

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Account Management Skills

JANUARY 24, 2022

’ But as Kay Dryer points out ‘the key is to remember the relationship is not what you want or need but what will make their business better’ 5. Who else is involved in this decision? Often there are several people on the client side who need to be consulted before a final decision is made. Shut up and listen.

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 10, 2018

Yes, some mistakes you have to make firsthand. Mary Burbridge , senior inbound growth specialist at HubSpot. Make at least 100 cold calls per day. You need to make X number of sales calls a day.”. Sharen Murnaghan , key account growth strategist at HubSpot. 1) “Focus solely on activity.”. .

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ProlifIQ

JUNE 21, 2023

Account managers are tasked with managing these accounts, serving as the main point of contact, and ensuring that the customers achieve the outcomes that they purchased your tool or service for. It requires thorough analysis, research, and insights to identify the right accounts and formulate effective account management strategies.

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Arpedio

JANUARY 11, 2023

Let’s break it down: So, account management is the process of providing your customers with the best service, support and show opportunities for improvement. The practice involves managing relationships with customers and clients, and keeping them happy by making sure that their needs are met. What Does an Account Manager Do?

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Mercuri International

MAY 23, 2023

However, while it’s tempting to debate the full breadth of philosophical and ethical issues that AI — particularly generative AI — raises, it’s also useful to look at it at a more pragmatic level and ask, “What exactly can it do for my job, and what changes do I need to make to the way I think, if I’m going to benefit?”

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PandaDoc

APRIL 21, 2023

Successfully managing key accounts also encourages clients to talk about your company, and you can count on them to boast about the positives of their partnership with you. With KAM, you’ll make your key accounts feel that you’re fully invested in their success, and they’ll reciprocate by recommending you to their peers.

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SmartKarrot

JANUARY 18, 2023

Role: Customer Success Manager Location: Nottingham, England, United Kingdom (Hybrid) Organization: Pacvue As a Customer Success Manager, you will make customers successful by providing high-quality technical support and service. Foster account growth/expansion via new products and markets. Apply here: [link].

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Janek Performance Group: Account Planning

JULY 13, 2021

Additional note: Make sure you save this process. As you get new clients, input their details into the system and get a sense of whether you should make them a strategic account. Naturally, the first priority is determining who your strategic account managers should be. Not only on the client side but on your side.

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Zendesk

OCTOBER 20, 2023

When you make sure customers have what they need to succeed, you also win as a business. If your budget can’t accommodate all these roles, determine what your business needs most—like strategists or customer-facing agents—and make hiring decisions accordingly. Your business is only as successful as your customers are.

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Account Management Skills

MARCH 20, 2023

I have worked in many different kinds of assets of account management, I mean the full spectrum, I have done roles, which have been very hybrid and touched a little bit on project delivery and account management. The AM role for me, I rely on the account manager to have an eye on the future.

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SmartKarrot

MARCH 24, 2022

Maintain a balanced proactive/reactive relationship with your assigned accounts. Expand Impact.com’s presence in the client organizations by developing relationships and facilitating strategic review sessions with senior-level people that have decision-making authority.

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SmartKarrot

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

But segmentation for LAMP is based not just on the sizes or revenues that the accounts bring; the emphasis should be on the account with the unmissable potential for the organization’s overall growth. LAMP emphasizes setting positive, qualitative goals with respect to the account. Setting the organization’s goals.

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ProlifIQ

AUGUST 17, 2023

Building Relationships with Different Stakeholders: Cultivating relationships with various decision-makers and influencers reduces the risk of losing a small deal due to personnel changes or miscommunication. Account planning will lead to new opportunities and eventually account growth.

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SmartKarrot

JANUARY 13, 2022

Partner with the sales team to maximize their win rate and help to identify areas for account growth within existing accounts. Develop best practices for new customer onboarding and customer growth to ensure ongoing customer success. Be outcome-oriented and metric-driven in your approach to making customers successful.

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SmartKarrot

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Work closely with the different teams at Aula including Account Management, Sales, Operations, and Product, and have interesting, complex conversations about improving Educator Success (focused on retention, satisfaction). Be responsible for key customer success metrics including NPS, account growth, forecasting, and revenue retention.

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SmartKarrot

APRIL 6, 2021

C-suite or C-level is made of decision makers. Selling to C-suite customers is important as it can provide: Faster decisions, lesser bureaucratic hurdles, large contracts- these are characteristics of a C-suite buyer. Instead of dealing with cost-conscious buyers, you will deal with decision makers who understand the business.

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SmartKarrot

JULY 12, 2021

Partner with Marketing, Customer Care, Sales, and Product Management to create a great customer experience in all stages of the lifecycle and drive positive NPS, retention, and account growth. Developing and maintaining professional relationships with key decision-makers at the strategic clients.

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Account Management Skills

AUGUST 24, 2021

A reminder also that my next Account Accelerator programme starts on 23rd of September. This is a transformational programme for agency account managers and account directors to take your agency from unpredictable project revenue to more predictable account growth. So I said I was going to do this month, etc, etc.

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SmartKarrot

JANUARY 28, 2021

Identify talent to scale your team and empower them to make the best decision for each issue they face. Provide the focal point for the Sales teams in EMEA and Americas businesses to run demos, onboarding, account growth, troubleshooting and retention activities.

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SmartKarrot

OCTOBER 12, 2022

But how can you assess the current state of your B2B customer experience and figure out how to effectively target and make changes so that your clients are happier and more devoted? Customer account journey for B2B organizations can help with this. . So, how does one evaluate the account journey and make the necessary improvements?

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SmartKarrot

MAY 27, 2020

The training focuses on identifying and segmenting overwhelming accounts into bundles of easy-to-handle accounts, thus improving the account organization and increasing clarity. Strengthening customer relationships is an important part of account management for customer success. Account Management Training by Factor8

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SmartKarrot

OCTOBER 17, 2022

This research often involves upselling opportunities , growth spectrums, and demand forecasts. Account mining can help your business identify, recognize and expedite potential areas of account growth, future account projections, and much more. Identifying Unexplored Business Functions.

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Account Management Skills

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

how to avoid making awful faux pas when connecting with people. If you’re in an agency account management role, and you’re responsible for forecasting and firming up the account growth, I’m running my next Account Accelerator programme starting on 27th January 2022. Jenny 03:06. Jenny 09:34.

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