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. How to identify key accounts.

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Clarity Engagement Solutions

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

How you reward Key Account Managers is seen as a critical ingredient in the overall success of any Key Account Management KAM strategy. The role of a key account manager requires effective coordination of a web of complex activities. Reward schemes fall into three categories: .

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Clarity Engagement Solutions

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

How you reward Key Account Managers is seen as a critical ingredient in the overall success of any Key Account Management KAM strategy. The role of a key account manager requires effective coordination of a web of complex activities. . Reward schemes fall into three categories: 1.

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DemandFarm

APRIL 21, 2023

With digital key account management tools , sales teams can offer numerous advantages over traditional methods, including increased security, convenience, and visibility. With key account management evolving and becoming more complex , organizations are turning to AI as a key differentiator and enabler.

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Account Manager Tips

JUNE 23, 2020

Phil is an account management and sales professional professional with a wealth of experience and wisdom he's distilled into The Tenets of Account Management. These guiding principles have served Phil well and I know they will help you find success as a key account manager. Click to Tweet.

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DemandFarm

MARCH 31, 2023

With the growing size of buying groups in the digital age, it is imperative to consider factors that play into the challenges and benefits of digital key account management. Challenges in Shifting to Digital Key Account Management Shifting to Digital Key Account Management also comes with its fair share of challenges.

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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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Upland

APRIL 20, 2023

How can effective account management help you defend and grow revenue? You need a strategy to defend and grow revenue in not only key accounts, but in every account. Here’s where having a sales account management strategy becomes indispensable. First, a quick primer – what is account management?

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DemandFarm

APRIL 4, 2023

In uncertain times, what is generally seen with customers is that the tacit knowledge of key accounts is retained by certain account managers. Unfortunately, in circumstances where those account managers get laid off or furloughed, the critical knowledge they possess is also lost.

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Strategic Account Management Association

AUGUST 6, 2021

Director Global Account Management, Aramex. Aramex services include international and domestic express delivery, freight forwarding, integrated logistics and supply chain management, and e-commerce solutions. Executive Sponsorship: Maps key customer stakeholders to executives and experts inside Aramex.

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Point N Time

APRIL 18, 2019

Your Key Account Management (KAM) shouldn’t be time-consuming or difficult. The post Four Aspects of Key Account Management appeared first on Point N Time. It must be organized, results driven (KPIs), dynamic (change with your business and your customers).

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MTD Sales Training

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

When we work with Key Account Managers (KAMs) we are often impressed by their knowledge, skillsets and attitudes that drive them to success. See if you can learn from them and create the success they enjoy: They recognise that Key Account Management is a business mindset, not a sales initiative.

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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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KAMCast

JULY 8, 2021

Or are you winging it along the way, relying on personality to build those relationships with key contacts? If all businesses existed to solve a problem, then account managers needed to become problem solvers. What role does today’s account manager play then? How would you rate your rapport building skills?

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Account Manager Tips

JULY 9, 2020

Your first 90 days in a new job as an account manager are the most challenging.and with the most at stake. Some hiring managers move fast and you may not have the time to do your plan justice if you haven't at least got a draft completed. Are you moving to account management from a different profession?

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Jermaine Edwards

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

In 2016 I wrote a post on the five foundation steps for stakeholder management success in key account management, that was well received and guided lots of leaders. What is a stakeholder? A stakeholder is either an individual, group or organisation who is impacted by the outcome of a project or relationship.

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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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Red Star Kim

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Behaviour in sales meetings). This article is a reminder of the key points valued by the delegates: Nine insights: Sales processes and selling skills for targeting and meetings. Some used the DMU (see introductory video on DMUs ) and the stakeholder matrix for targeting. Portfolio management. Sales meetings.

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DemandFarm

APRIL 8, 2024

Identify your target accounts, put together a team of sales plus marketing, work out a hyper-personalized messaging and content strategy for those accounts, and measure your efforts. The best account managers , however, have a secret sauce that differentiates them from the others. Sounds simple enough! The consequence?

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Arpedio

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Account management software tools Account Management Software ← Back to blog Account management software solutions have transformed the way businesses handle their account planning and client interactions. This is where account management software solutions come into play as a transformative tool.

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DemandFarm

MAY 25, 2023

Thank you for meeting with me last week. He must now call and find out if any of these stakeholders are still relevant to the task he needs to do. He is so pleased to be able to see, at one glance, all the key stakeholders in his key account. Based on our discussions, we’ve created a proposal.

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Red Star Kim

OCTOBER 25, 2023

CogniClick is a nifty system (backed by an expert team) to enable you to conduct fast, quick polls and pulse surveys amongst your clients and stakeholders and to also develop maturity assessments and similar thought leadership content. I had the pleasure of meeting Helen Kensett at the recent PM Forum Conference.

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Account Manager Tips

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Use meeting scheduling apps 7. Use project management tools 9. Create recurring milestone meetings 11. Too many clients, not enough time Key account managers have a lot of clients. Share the load You don't have to be the only one in your organization communicating with key stakeholders.

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Account Manager Tips

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Every month I share a selection of popular titles to help with your professional development as a key account manager. Have you mastered your professional elevator pitch so that every time you meet someone, they remember and are impressed by you? Key account managers rely on influence to get things done.

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Account Manager Tips

AUGUST 3, 2022

When to give up Forms of communication (from most to least effective) Favourite book on follow up In other news Have your say on the future of key account management Quote of the week. Whatever the situation, there’s constant backwards and forwards between stakeholders. That’s not how it works. Make follow up a habit.

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SmartKarrot

JUNE 28, 2023

The key account manager is then supposed to act as the first contact point between these clients and the business, dedicate resources, and hold meetings with them. The main aim of this practice is to help grow the number of key accounts in order to attain mutually beneficial goals and maximize their value.

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Account Management Skills

AUGUST 24, 2021

In this episode, I talk to Alex Raymond from Kapta about everything to do with account management processes. Not project management systems, not CRM systems, but having a dedicated system to guide the agency account management team, when it comes to managing and delve developing existing client relationships.

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Brightbridge Consulting

AUGUST 5, 2021

We are supporting the development of various activities through The Association for Key Account Management and Technological University Dublin, supported by Pfizer. We now look forward to booked engagements with the development of leadership and furtherance of account plans this Autumn. A face-to-face meeting is planned!

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ProlifIQ

MARCH 30, 2023

Strategic Account Planning is a strategic process sales teams use to increase the likelihood of winning, retaining, and growing critical accounts, to maximize the long-term revenue of an account. An account plan should be interactive and a living, breathing document used as a framework for the account.

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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. Schedule a discovery meeting as soon as possible to figure out what their priorities are. Who are their internal stakeholders? How do they want to manage supplier relationships?

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Whetstone

APRIL 5, 2023

The painful shift from in-person meetings to virtual ones has been a major adaptation for most businesses and organizations. While we’ve always understood that in-person meetings are beneficial, we’ve learned over the last few years that virtual meetings provide opportunities that we were previously unaware of.

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ProlifIQ

APRIL 21, 2023

To scale an account growth strategy, businesses can implement strategic account management processes that incorporate strategic account managers and account managers. They also develop and implement strategic account plans that align with the business’s goals and objectives.

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Red Star Kim

JUNE 16, 2022

This prompted a host of discussions on engagement, internal communication, stakeholder buy-in, organisational culture and changing behaviour. Sometimes through dedicated internal campaigns and sometimes through the use of Key Account Management. shadowing or coaching) or motivation to have more face-to-face meetings.

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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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Account Manager Tips

JULY 6, 2022

You can work with your stakeholders in real time to unlock conversations, insights and ideas. It’s like Miro (if you’ve used that app) but for me, the layout, navigation and functionality are much easier to manage in Mural. By the way, check out my interview with Phil in which he shares the 12 Tenets of Account Management.

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Account Manager Tips

JUNE 29, 2021

Close any gaps in your solution, meet all commitments and ensure your client is satisfied. Create contact plans to keep in touch with key stakeholders in your company and your client's. Your job as a key account manager is to deliver the kind of value that convinces your clients to stay in the loop.

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Louise Collins Associates

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Maximising the interaction that a sales person has with an external stakeholder. I am not saying that the need for sales coaching to improve in-call performance will go away, however, organisations do need to invest in their future and build strong Key Account Management (KAM) capabilities across all functions in order to succeed.

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