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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. Sales and account management – no longer an expense but an investment.

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10 New Capture Strategy Tips to Keep Clients & Avoid Competitive Bids

Account Manager Tips

Capture Strategy Tips A capture strategy identifies how to position organizations as the supplier of choice and convince clients to renew without considering alternatives. Your job as a key account manager is to deliver the kind of value that convinces your clients to stay in the loop. Suppliers submit proposals to provide them.

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Stakeholder Management: A Must Read Guide

Arpedio

Before we go into further detail with stakeholder management, let’s first clarify what an actual stakeholder is: A stakeholder is any individual or group that has an interest in, or can be affected by, the actions or decisions of a business. These factors make it very difficult for customers to make purchase decisions.

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More Effective KAM skills: Flint Group

Brightbridge Consulting

Key Account Management: Skills Development: Flint Group. Group workshops and individual coaching for experienced senior key account leaders, commercial and technical managers. One of the largest suppliers to the printing and packaging industry world-wide, 2017 revenues were €2.2bn. Both areas build on each other.

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Stakeholder Mastery 3.0 – The Six Steps You Must Take

Jermaine Edwards

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. Therefore a business should seek to create value for all stakeholders, not just shareholders. What does this mean today? Here’s what the great R.

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Unlock Business Potential with Effective Stakeholder Mapping?

Arpedio

Stakeholders can include a wide range of individuals, groups, or organizations, such as customers, suppliers, employees, shareholders, government agencies, and communities. This knowledge can help businesses develop effective engagement strategies, manage risks, and align their business strategies with stakeholder interests.

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How to lead a client services team in an award winning digital marketing agency, with Beth Sharma

Account Management Skills

He’s brilliant, just go and ask for his advice and I went and had a coffee with him, and he just said, there’s an account management position open, do you want it? I hadn’t really been trained professionally as an account manager. So, the product manager and the account manager seem to gel really well.