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How to Boost Sales Productivity with Account Planning

Upland

Sales productivity becomes even more difficult for complex B2B accounts with large buying groups and multiple divisions involved in the decision-making process. Why account planning is essential to boost sales productivity Account planning is the process of mapping out key aspects of a potential customer or account.

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Want to Accelerate Your SAM Journey? Create a Center of Excellence

Strategic Account Management Association

Disruption Leads to Innovation. Disruption, although most times unwelcome, gives way to innovation. Could the mother of creativity and innovation, in fact, be disruption? We have seen an increased interest in moving to a more focused, value-bringing and high impact engagement model. Three Pillars of Success. We think not.

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What’s So Aspirational About Account Planning?

SalesGlobe

When I hear the words “strategic account planning” in a meeting, I usually notice a range of involuntary visceral reactions, from understated moans to eye-rolls and furrowed brows. Nobody thinks of account planning as aspirational. Aspirational account planning revolves around how you think about and with the customer.

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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. They do this by digesting all the insight available and by connecting them with what is important to the customer.

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The Importance of Co-Creating Value with Every Strategic Customer

Account Manager Tips

Constructive customer participation. Create a seamless, frictionless customer experience. Knowledge sharing and openness to generate innovative collaboration Knowledge as socially generated, maintained, and shared in peer-to-peer communities. You need a long term planning horizon for co-creation. Clarify roles and tasks.

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Key Takeaways From SAMA 2023 Annual Conference

Arpedio

Key Takeaways From SAMA 2023 Annual Conference ← Back to blog Once again, The Strategic Account Management Association (SAMA) brought together sales and strategic account management professionals from around the globe for their annual conference. 75% of companies think they are customer-centric.

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Account-Based Marketing: Time to future proof your marketing efforts to become customer-led and team enabled.

Cosawi

Today, as advisors in the strategic account management space, we are surprised and disheartened to see that marketing is often not only missing at the strategic account team table but also working from an inside-out products focus, rather than an outside-in customer focus. But this is only the starting point.