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10 Steps to Win Over Your Client’s New Procurement Team

Account Manager Tips

New procurement teams introduce big challenges and new opportunities into the customer relationship. My old contact has been replaced A new procurement team introduces fresh dynamics and relationships. The working environment will undoubtedly change from what you were used to with the previous procurement team.

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Aspirational Account Planning – The Story

SalesGlobe

Unlocking the Growth Potential in Your Strategic Accounts Effective account planning is essential to growing the organization’s strategic accounts, which typically comprise most of the organization’s revenue and growth potential. What’s Aspirational Account Planning? Is not history, projected forward.

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FROM EXECUTIVE SPONSORSHIP TO EXECUTIVE ENGAGEMENT

Strategic Account Management Association

A colleague from the SAMA Board of Directors, Noel Capon, recently wrote an article in Harvard Business Review “When CEOs Make Sales Calls” in which he describes the impact of top management’s involvement in the customer relationship. We need to consider the person’s willingness and personality fit with the customer account.

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5 Important Elements For Strategic Account Planning Sessions

Openview

Arguably one of the most underrated elements of enterprise sales is account planning. However, even though strategic account planning sessions are viewed by the sales organization as helpful and important, they simply don’t happen often enough. said that salespeople are “encouraged” to develop strategic account plans.

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How Relationship Maps Put the “R” Back Into CRM

Revegy

Revegy’s Relationship Maps take the blinders off of megadeals, and allow sales teams to do the following: Quickly and easily map contacts from your CRM and visually connect the dots – from coaches and stakeholders to decision-makers and procurement, organizational charts are easily built with drag and drop functionality.

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Are You Letting Your Clients Slip Away? 12 Tips to Keep in Touch

Account Manager Tips

Too many clients, not enough time Key account managers have a lot of clients. From procurement, to executives, to end users and everything in between. How do you maintain those critical customer relationships, especially as you grow, get more accounts, launch more services, solve more issues? Worth a click Quote of the week.

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The Best 90 Day Success Plan Every New Account Manager Needs [+ Template]

Account Manager Tips

30 60 90 day project plan. A detailed list of all the activities you need to do to get settled into your new account management role, grouped into 30 day periods. The rest of this article will explain how, so read on. Create an account management strategy. This is great for job interviews. People will judge you.