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Ten insights on the future of SAM

Strategic Account Management Association

Panelists: Jennifer Stanley, Partner, McKinsey & Co.; From Stanley’s perspective, SAM already serves as a beacon for what it means to be a sales professional–particularly when it comes to the rigor SAMs bring to account planning, solutions co-creation with customers and articulation of unique value propositions. #5.

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The Importance of Co-Creating Value with Every Strategic Customer

Account Manager Tips

20 ways to encourage value co-creation with your customers Favourite collaboration app Listener tip In other news Quote of the week. And what if we take it one step further and ask what it means to "co-create value" with our customers? Which is why co-creation is so powerful. We hear the word "value" all the time.

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

Account Manager Tips

Why large accounts are not key accounts Key accounts are your most valuable customers, and organisations frequently rely on volume to identify them. For many B2B companies, their largest customers represent 30 to 50% of total revenue and margin. How to identify key accounts Let's keep this simple. Click to Tweet.

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A Step-by-Step Strategic Account Plan Template for Shared-Value

Hubspot Sales

Are you a B2B account manager or sales executive who is serious about account-based sales or account-based marketing (ABM)? To win new business and grow key accounts, account managers and sales executives must become thoroughly invested in their customer’s challenges, goals, and competitive landscape.

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Key Account Manager or Strategic Ecosystem Leader?

Arpedio

Define the role of your KAMs or SAMs as leaders in your business SAMA offers a vital community to accelerate KAM programs It’s Strategic Account PlannING, not Account Plan Digital has permanently transformed the KAM role. The mindset shift from account plans to account planning is essential.

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4 Sales Methodologies That Will Maximize Your Sales Success

Arpedio

MEDDIC and MEDDPICC The MEDDIC/MEDDPICC sales qualification process is a B2B sales methodology. This helps the SAM to stop and reflect on the state of his or her progress in understanding the customer’s business and connecting it back to the supplier company’s unique capabilities.

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