Strategic Account Management Association

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The idea of executive engagement implies an accountable and engaged member of the account team, rather than a distant back-room player. Strategic account management is a team sport and requires cross-functional, multi-tiered vertical level engagement and strong accountability.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 18, 2019

The answer: Key account management. In this comprehensive guide to key account management, you'll learn: The definition of key account management. How to know whether your company needs a key account management strategy. The difference between key account management and selling.

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Jermaine Edwards

APRIL 29, 2020

What if leadership was what we really needed in key account management today? It wasn’t until we moved from customer management into personal and customer leadership that things shifted significantly. Almost never in the world of success and key account management, do we hear about the importance of leadership.

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ProlifIQ

JUNE 21, 2023

Strategic Account Management in B2B Welcome to our comprehensive guide on strategic account management. Whether you’re an experienced strategic account manager or aspiring to become one, we share the knowledge and skills needed to excel in this critical role.

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Arpedio

JANUARY 11, 2023

How to Succeed With Account Management. Let’s show you how to get the most out of your account management! In this blog, we’ll break down the concept of account management, and why it’s so important in order to drive a successful business in today’s increasingly complex B2B industry. Back to blog.

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PandaDoc

APRIL 21, 2023

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. Let’s examine what strategic account management is and the best ways to approach it.

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ProlifIQ

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Where To Start In the complex world of B2B sales and account management, success hinges on the ability to develop and execute a robust account management strategy. We’ll walk through the key components of building an effective account management strategy that drives revenue, customer retention, and loyalty.

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KAM With Passion

JUNE 20, 2021

This article focuses on individual competencies, especially those of the Key Account Managers. It provides you with a precise description of the skills and competencies required from a true Key Account Manager (not a plain entreprise customers sales rep). Defining Skills & Competencies.

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Revegy

MAY 24, 2023

What is Strategic Account Management and Why It Matters Strategic Account Management (SAM) manages and grows relationships with an organization’s most critical and high-value customers.

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DemandFarm

APRIL 26, 2023

Key Account Management (KAM) focuses on building long-term relationships, and aims to improve customer satisfaction – especially in a B2B scenario. A key account manager’s primary responsibility is ensuring that the needs of key clients are met, and that they remain satisfied with the company’s products and services.

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DemandFarm

APRIL 18, 2023

A connected apps ecosystem in key account management involves the integration of your digital key account planning tool with other tools in your sales tech and marketing tech stack. If these data sources are contextualized to strategic accounts then key account managers gain better insights.

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Jermaine Edwards

MAY 27, 2020

Some account managers and key account managers can get paralysed by over research. When studied and applied these will immediately help you as a customer leader or key account manager prepare to support, shape and solve real problems with and for your customers. There are three influencing market areas.

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DemandFarm

MAY 12, 2023

Among the challenges was gaining visibility into various aspects of their strategic accounts, leveraging best practices from different teams, and institutionalizing processes and systems to ensure smooth operations across their international offices. This is where Global Account Management (GAM) comes into play.

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Revegy

OCTOBER 16, 2018

While CRMs can serve as the global warehouse for customer data, they were not purpose built for KAM and they alone do not provide the actionable intelligence required to drive key accounts growth. Why CRMs Alone are not Adequate for Key Account Management. CRMs do not empower account managers to be the captain of the ship.

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Account Manager Tips

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

First things first: find out what they want You can't adapt your account strategy until you understand what the new procurement team want. The world's most amazing community of key account manager. They start picking over little details. Challenging you on choices that were made months or even years ago. The KAM Club.

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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. Account Planning Basics. Planning Specifics.

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DemandFarm

JULY 26, 2023

Quality over Quantity: How Focusing on a Select Few Accounts Can Drive Greater Success in Digital Key Account Management As digital Key Account Management grows in relevance, many organizations find themselves confounded by the question of whether obtaining new customers is more important than retaining existing key clients.

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Corporate Visions

JANUARY 23, 2020

But while you’re having a quarterly business review with your customer about utilization metrics and project status updates, that same customer’s name is moving through your competitor’s sales funnel—being targeted with marketing campaigns, discussed in sales forecasts, and being put through account strategy planning sheets.

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Jermaine Edwards

MAY 18, 2020

There are 10 immutable laws that shape the philosophy, outcomes and actions of high performing businesses, key account managers and customer serving professionals over the long term. When you think about customer relationship management, customer growth, customer success do you immediately think LEADERSHIP ? Here they are….

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Jermaine Edwards

MAY 18, 2020

There are 10 immutable laws that shape the philosophy, outcomes and actions of high performing businesses, key account managers and customer serving professionals over the long-term. When you think about customer relationship management, customer growth, customer success do you immediately think LEADERSHIP ? Here they are….

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SBI Growth

JANUARY 31, 2018

Will you touch the right accounts and how is your sales leader assigning the reps to the right accounts? What accounts get you bigger deal sizes? Account management and segmentation is one of the keys in enabling a solid sales strategy.

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Arpedio

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

December 2 What is the primary focus of ARPEDIO's Account Management solution? Enter draw #1 Account-Based Selling Platform Treat your colleagues to an early Christmas present Relationship Mapping & Org Chart Improve your critical stakeholder relationships.

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Arpedio

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

← Back to case studies What is the primary focus of ARPEDIO's Account Management solution?

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Jermaine Edwards

MARCH 17, 2020

This is especially true when it comes to the application of key account management and the elements that shape the success of existing customer management. While this might be a helpful starting place, it is certainly not where it ends.

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Revegy

AUGUST 12, 2020

If you’re responsible for growing your company’s revenue, either through a sales or an account management role, the panic of deal slippage or limited revenue opportunities may feel unavoidable. To keep your goals on track and to uncover new opportunities, focus on establishing a customer-centric strategy.

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Jermaine Edwards

MAY 6, 2020

As a Key Account Manager or Director you must begin with identifying the difference between the customer and the industry. Not every pivot is a huge investment and neither was this. They identified existing assets and relationships to enable the “customer pivot” to happen. Does this pivot fit in with your core proposition and offering?

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Miller Heiman Group

JANUARY 31, 2019

These three essential selling skills can have a great impact on your long-term success in large accounts. We know a thing or two about account strategy planning. Learn about our Large Account Management Process and prepare to take your results to a new level.

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Cosawi

JANUARY 29, 2024

In the work we do, we find fascinating to see that Marketing as a function is often missing at the strategic account table. 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.

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DemandFarm

APRIL 1, 2025

This means that for key account managers and sales teams, this means an org chart tool for Salesforce is no longer a nice-to-have its essential. This visual map of relationships lets you track each stakeholders influence and sentiment, identify champions vs. detractors, and plan your account strategy accordingly.

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MTD Sales Training

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

I received an email last week from Trevor Borrows who is a newly appointed National Sales Manager in charge of a team of Account Managers. Here’s what Trevor asked: “Hi Sean, being a new National Sales Manager I need to understand how to develop account strategies.

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Arpedio

AUGUST 24, 2022

Think of it like this: a marketing strategy that sales, marketing and account management professionals use in order to maintain marketing efforts to their existing clients. Keep on reading as we define account planning and dive into how you can perform efficient and successful account planning. Share on facebook.

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Arpedio

JANUARY 5, 2024

In the competitive landscape of today’s market, understanding the trifecta of sales targets , business strategy , and client dynamics can propel a sales team’s success exponentially. Let us delve into the specifics that underscore the potency of a carefully crafted account strategy.

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SBI

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

Its Account Plan helps account managers to build, follow, and measure a key account strategy. Outside In’s DealSheet gives you a platform for organizing and scoring each opportunity against specific sales processes and steps. Visit Outside In Sales.

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Cosawi

DECEMBER 28, 2021

The idea of executive engagement implies an accountable and engaged member of the account team, rather than a distant backroom player. Strategic account management is a team sport and requires cross-functional, vertical level engagement and strong accountability. Challenge account strategy and tactics.

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Corporate Visions

JANUARY 23, 2020

But while you’re having a quarterly business review with your customer about utilization metrics and project status updates, that same customer’s name is moving through your competitor’s sales funnel—being targeted with marketing campaigns, discussed in sales forecasts, and being put through account strategy planning sheets.

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Cosawi

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

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.

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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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