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5 Tips to Build Stronger Relationships in Account Planning

Janek Performance Group: Account Planning

When selling to existing customers, 56 percent achieve win rates greater than 50 percent. This makes account planning essential. More than upselling and cross-selling, account planning is partnering with existing clients. Plus, with account planning, 74 percent see increased win rates. Let’s face it.

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What’s So Aspirational About Account Planning?

SalesGlobe

When I hear the words “strategic account planning” in a meeting, I usually notice a range of involuntary visceral reactions, from understated moans to eye-rolls and furrowed brows. Nobody thinks of account planning as aspirational. Aspirational account planning revolves around how you think about and with the customer.

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FROM EXECUTIVE SPONSORSHIP TO EXECUTIVE ENGAGEMENT

Strategic Account Management Association

We need to focus on understanding the customer and helping the SAM deep dive in the customer environment and gain the insight and knowledge needed to deliver broader customer value. Adapting our corporate behaviors to fit the customer context. Creating strategic customer value and building trust requires time.

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Want to Accelerate Your SAM Journey? Create a Center of Excellence

Strategic Account Management Association

They are accountable for aligning the organization to the business and strategic account planning processes, as well as connecting and aligning how the strategic accounts engage with the rest of the commercial teams in the markets and local affiliates. A COE can bring expertise for more customer value and differentiation.

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Key Takeaways From SAMA 2023 Annual Conference

Arpedio

Key Takeaways From SAMA 2023 Annual Conference ← Back to blog Once again, The Strategic Account Management Association (SAMA) brought together sales and strategic account management professionals from around the globe for their annual conference.

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The Final Cut #TopSalesTools of 2019 Announced!

SBI

Resources All Awards & Recognition Blog Article Funding & Acquisitions Industry News Interview Video Video Reviews Webinars. Account Planning. Revegy, the enterprise account planning platform for revenue optimization, rolled out two new features in its Fall Release: Whitespace+ and Contacts+. Blog Article.

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Account-Based Marketing: Time to future proof your marketing efforts to become customer-led and team enabled.

Cosawi

Taking this approach optimizes the engagement between the strategic account manager and marketing in this co-orchestration of the account plan. awareness marketing”) packaged as account-based marketing. So how can SAM and ABM help to create this harmonious dance to become co-orchestrators of the account plan?