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Turning lemons into lemonade: Five ways to reset on customer management fundamentals in a post-pandemic world

Strategic Account Management Association

By Dave Duke, Co-Founder and CCO, MetaCX, and Joel Schaafsma, Research General Manager, SAMA. In business, it has created an opportunity to reflect on how companies are managing customers, and it has given customers a window of opportunity to re-evaluate their supplier relationships to determine which partnerships are truly valuable.

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Ten insights on the future of SAM

Strategic Account Management Association

As conveners of the largest community in the world dedicated to strategic and key account management, one of SAMA’s foundational purposes is to help our community both adapt to what’s happening right now and prepare for what may happen next. Panelists: Jennifer Stanley, Partner, McKinsey & Co.;

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Key Account Manager or Strategic Ecosystem Leader?

Arpedio

Key Account Manager or Strategic Ecosystem Leader? Key Account Manager or Strategic Ecosystem Leader? ? On September 15th, more than eighty Key Account Managers (KAM) assembled in Copenhagen and online for a hybrid event. October 11, 2021. October 11, 2021. Back to blog. SAM is a journey. Share on facebook.

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

Account Manager Tips

You're sitting on a goldmine of existing customers that: can deliver an above-average revenue growth; want to invest in your partnership; will co-create value in ways that neither of you could do alone. Portrait Software became a key account, and within 18 months, that partnership led to winning the larger Pitney Bowes business.

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10 Trends – Annual International Marketing Benchmark by PM Forum and Meridian West

Red Star Kim

Although I always wonder why managing efficiency takes precedence over growing revenues and profits – at a time when perhaps competitors might limit investment so those bold enough to do so obtain a “bigger bang for their buck”. Improving/establishing account management. Improving project management on client engagements.

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Servitization 101 – How servitization can strengthen your relationship with your key accounts

Strategic Account Management Association

Servitization is a term used to describe a journey of transformation, specifically: the innovation of an organization’s capabilities and processes to better create mutual value through a shift from selling products to selling product-service systems that deliver a desirable outcome for the customer. What is servitization?

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4 Sales Methodologies That Will Maximize Your Sales Success

Arpedio

SAMA 7-step Strategic Account Management Process 4. SAMA 7-step Strategic Account Management Process In collaboration, SAMA and ARPEDIO have embedded the SAMA world-renowned 7-step strategic account management process into ARPEDIO’s powerful account-based selling platform. Table of Contents 1.

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