ProlifIQ

APRIL 3, 2023

Account Planning Tools For B2B Sales Teams Is your sales team building plans in slide decks, or spreadsheets, or storing key information about your stakeholders and accounts that isn’t easy to find? Do accounts churn when 1-2 main supporters move on? Do deals crumble when your champions leave?

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SalesPop

MAY 7, 2021

We’ve thoroughly covered many factors of account planning, such as setting goals and targets. But at the end of the day, account planning naturally evolves into creating a project, which falls into the realm of project management. Project Management Elements. A project is primarily made up of objectives.

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SalesPop

MAY 21, 2021

Through the articles in this series, we’ve now covered all aspects of account management, and its related features within Pipeliner CRM. Let’s now take an overview of the subject and pull all the pieces together, and see how Pipeliner powerfully supports account management. Back End Administration.

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PandaDoc

APRIL 21, 2023

Key accounts are the 20% of accounts that generate 80% of your company revenue. Before attempting to develop a key account management strategy, you must know how to identify these key accounts. Accurate identification will help you avoid rashly categorizing tail accounts as having strategic value.

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Deep Insight

AUGUST 10, 2020

This blog is about the fundamentals of Key Account Management (KAM) but that was not the topic I had in mind when I interviewed Joe Edwards. I wanted him to talk about his time as Sales Director at Atos UK & Ireland (which we did cover eventually). Key Account Management. Key Account Management.

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SalesPop

MARCH 19, 2021

An extremely important aspect of account management is the strategic aspect, the plans of dealing with various accounts. I recently discovered through research just how much of an impact real account planning can have on company success. Such planning must include research and a decent amount of prediction.

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Janek Performance Group: Account Planning

JULY 13, 2021

One of the buzzphrases swirling around the sales stratosphere over the last few years is Strategic Account Management, or SAM. What is Strategic Account Management? Unlike sales, which is often focused on the short term, SAM takes a long-range view. Why should we use strategic account management?

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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. It’s putting their needs ahead of the sale to form long-term relationships. Altify notes account planning has increased from 36 percent of companies in 2013 to 50 percent today.

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Revegy

JANUARY 5, 2021

SiriusDecisions defines account-based models , or account management, as representations of a strategic approach that align resources against a set of defined accounts and goals in a way that is relevant and valuable to those accounts and to sales/partners. Key Account Selection.

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Engage Selling

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

I was working with a group of sales managers at a workshop a few weeks ago and one of them introduced this strategy. It was a very simple strategy of implementing an account plan when you didn’t have a sophisticated … Read More »

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Janek Performance Group: Account Planning

APRIL 26, 2022

As a sales leader, have you ever calculated the cost of poor account management? For example, let’s suppose your superstar salesperson closes a big account. But this account is local in your hometown. The account stayed active for one year and then left for a competitor’s service. Here’s how.

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SalesPop

JULY 9, 2021

For any company involved with sales, account management and key account management is crucial and requires a vastly different skillset and toolset than winning new sales. What is (Key) Account Management? Yet account management still requires planning, resources, time and energy.

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Janek Performance Group: Account Planning

JULY 21, 2021

We’re revisiting the topic of Strategic Account Management (SAM) today. In this edition, we’ll be looking at the inverse – the mistakes that will cause your strategic account management efforts to fail. Patience is more than virtue when you’re an account manager – it’s a necessity.

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Janek Performance Group: Account Planning

AUGUST 4, 2021

We continue our journey through strategic account management by examining the best practices in coaching strategic account managers. The single most important skill set to have as a strategic account manager is communication. Coach to communication skills. A subset of this is having analytical skills.

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Engage Selling

MARCH 31, 2017

A few weeks ago, I was at a client sales management meeting and we were discussing Account Management because many were concerned that they were starting to lose some of their accounts. There was a lot of resistance from the … Read More »

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Revegy

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Your strategic account planning process is integral to optimizing revenue in your largest accounts. What is Strategic Account Planning? Before we dive into account planning best practices, let’s all get on the same page about account planning. Planning methodology.

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ProlifIQ

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

A quarterly business review is typically an event that takes place over the span of a few days to a week where sellers and a customer success manager come together to align on all of their key accounts. This is essentially the industry standard way a sales team and customer success managers think about account management.

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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

To others still, it means a key account plan. We observed this troubling phenomenon while conducting research for our book Cracking the Sales Management Code. Without a common understanding of the term " sales process ," sales managers can’t coach or communicate with their sellers as effectively.

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SmartKarrot

MAY 15, 2023

Key Account Management (KAM) is the art of strategically managing and nurturing these vital accounts, unlocking their full potential and driving long-term growth. Get ready to dive into a world of knowledge and unlock the secrets to mastering the art of Key Account Management ! Amazon Link 2.

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SmartKarrot

APRIL 13, 2023

In today’s economic environment, effective account management is essential for building and maintaining strong client relationships and achieving growth. From podcasts and webinars to blogs and social media posts, these influencers are using a range of channels to help other account managers learn, grow, and succeed.

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Mike Kunkle

MAY 11, 2022

How to plan and organize effectively. Includes territory planning, account planning, sales call planning, leading sales meetings, task management, using CRM, sales enablement tools, other technology tools and performance support, action planning, calendaring, project management, change management, and personal productivity practices.

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Arpedio

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

ARPEDIO Account Planning & Relationship Mapping. ? Aggreko needed to upgrade their sales tech stack in order for them to take their account management program to the next level. The strategic account managers found that there was no linkage between where they wanted to be, and how they were going to get there.

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Arpedio

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

ARPEDIO Account Planning & Relationship Mapping. ? Aggreko needed to upgrade their sales tech stack in order for them to take their account management program to the next level. The strategic account managers found that there was no linkage between where they wanted to be, and how they were going to get there.

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Sales Outcomes

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Front-line sales managers are the key to enabling behavior change in salespeople. To that end, changes in sales manager behavior must come first; however, front-line sales managers live in a hectic environment – pressures from leadership, their teams, and other functions such as marketing, sales operations, HR, etc.

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Arpedio

JUNE 16, 2022

Opportunity Planning: A Complete Guide. Opportunity Planning: A Complete Guide. ? Efficient opportunity management software is your gateway to explore opportunities, make accurate sales forecasting and close the big deals. How to do opportunity sales forecasting? Why is opportunity management important?

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Arpedio

MARCH 27, 2023

Sales Pipeline Management Software – Manage Your Opportunities With Ease ← Back to blog Sales pipeline management is an effective tool for converting leads into sales. This article will unpack everything sales leaders and sales reps need to know about sales pipeline management.

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Arpedio

MARCH 27, 2023

Sales Pipeline Management Software – Manage Your Opportunities With Ease ← Back to blog Sales pipeline management is an effective tool for converting leads into sales. This article will unpack everything sales leaders and sales reps need to know about sales pipeline management.

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SalesPop

JUNE 3, 2021

The last point to be taken up in account management is the symbiosis of humans and machines. In the old days sales, roles were oversimplified, with just the hunter and the farmer. For example, we have inside salespeople, outside salespeople, technical specialists, client managers, account executives, business managers, and more.

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Arpedio

MARCH 31, 2023

(Source: The Forrester Tech Tide : B2B Sales Technologies, Q1 2023) The Invest quadrant of the Tech Tide encompasses six B2B sales technologies that are increasingly becoming essential components of modern sales and revenue engines. Why Invest in Account-Based Selling (ABS) Technologies? Superior together.

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ProlifIQ

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

You need a comprehensive account management strategy. . With fewer large companies open to purchasing technology at this moment, it’s critical to understand these things when enterprise selling: Who are your top strategic accounts? . It’s time to do some research, align with marketing, and build out that account in your CRM.

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Miller Heiman Group

JUNE 30, 2020

In normal times, sales managers carry the heavy weight of many responsibilities, including coaching their sales team, ensuring a positive customer experience and improving financial results. If before we thought that sales managers were running on sand rather than on pavement , they’re now treading quicksand.

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Engage Selling

MARCH 15, 2018

We introduced a quick concept to his sales managers around account management and proper account planning. Last year, I was at an extended leadership team meeting for one of my best clients. After the meeting, I approached them and said, … Read More »

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Arpedio

JANUARY 26, 2022

White Space Analysis for Key Account Management. There’s no denying that White Space is intriguing for all stakeholders in the SAM (Strategic Account Management) ecosystem. Enter our treasured Key Account Managers. Business Manager, TDC Erhverv. Something that we weren’t able to do before.

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Arpedio

JANUARY 26, 2022

White Space Analysis for Key Account Management. There’s no denying that White Space is intriguing for all stakeholders in the SAM (Strategic Account Management) ecosystem. Enter our treasured Key Account Managers. Business Manager, TDC Erhverv. Something that we weren’t able to do before.

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Arpedio

MAY 23, 2023

The sales coach may provide training on various sales techniques, such as prospecting, lead generation, sales presentations, objection handling, closing, and relationship building. They may also assist with sales strategy development, territory management, and time management.

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Arpedio

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

In the following post, we explore what drove the founding of ARPEDIO, why Anders deployed ARPEDIO’s software during his time at Deloitte, and their thoughts on what the future holds for strategic account management. Companies will claim they embrace data-driven sales management, solely based on the amount of data and reports available.

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Arpedio

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

In the following post, we explore what drove the founding of ARPEDIO, why Anders deployed ARPEDIO’s software during his time at Deloitte, and their thoughts on what the future holds for strategic account management. Companies will claim they embrace data-driven sales management, solely based on the amount of data and reports available.

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