Arpedio

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Welcome to our comprehensive guide on strategic account planning – a vital practice for businesses looking to achieve long-term success and foster strong customer relationships. In today’s competitive landscape, having a well-defined account plan is essential to effectively manage key accounts and drive growth.

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Arpedio

JANUARY 5, 2024

In the dynamic terrain of sales, forging a path to success is an intricate dance of strategy, customer insight, and relentless pursuit of growth. Central to this quest is the art of strategic account planning , a methodical approach that marries sales strategy with customer relationship management to foster business growth.

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Janek Performance Group: Account Planning

JULY 25, 2023

All sales organizations need new business to thrive and grow. As such, they often prioritize new accounts. For salespeople, this means tighter budgets, more decision makers, and longer sales cycles. Clearly, in times like these, organizations cannot just rely on new business to generate revenue.

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Janek Performance Group: Account Planning

OCTOBER 25, 2023

However, according to Altify: Companies receive 60 percent of their sales revenue from existing customers. This makes account planning essential. More than upselling and cross-selling, account planning is partnering with existing clients. It’s putting their needs ahead of the sale to form long-term relationships.

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ProlifIQ

JUNE 21, 2023

The ROI of Account Planning In the highly competitive landscape of B2B sales, sales leaders are constantly seeking strategies that can boost revenue and foster long-term customer relationships. One such strategy that has proven to deliver impressive returns is account planning. What is an Account Plan?

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ProlifIQ

APRIL 3, 2023

Account Planning Tools For B2B Sales Teams Is your sales team building plans in slide decks, or spreadsheets, or storing key information about your stakeholders and accounts that isn’t easy to find? Do accounts churn when 1-2 main supporters move on? Do deals crumble when your champions leave?

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ProlifIQ

APRIL 5, 2023

Account Planning Best Practices Sales account planning is a critical aspect of any business that seeks to manage its customers effectively and generate more revenue. An action plan that outlines the sales account planning process is crucial for any company that wants to succeed.

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Strategic Account Management Association

AUGUST 6, 2021

Form an organizational capability around co-creating products and solutions with our customers Redesign our philosophy around our customers’ needs Make a positive business impact on our customers’ operations Ingrain a deeply customer-centric vision and mission for sales. A new central commercial organization was born.

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Upland

AUGUST 9, 2023

What we found in discussing account planning and the value of relationships with sellers in our recent book, Not Just Another Vendor , is that building successful relationships offers real, tangible business benefits like: Understanding key motivations to tailor unique solutions. . #1: These teams never ask “What can I sell?”

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Upland

MAY 18, 2023

Account planning and effective account management strategies are about much, much more than your key accounts. That said, any account manager worth their salt has a strategy for their key accounts. Sales map example for smaller accounts. Attracting them is an entire process.

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Arpedio

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The vital role of Customer Success in Account Management Explore ARPEDIO's Account Management Software ← Back to blog In recent times, companies have come to realize the significance of aligning their customer success and account management strategies. Check out ARPEDIO’s Account Management solution here. Let's talk!

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Strategic Account Management Association

JULY 13, 2021

Organizations are already planning for this new- or next-normal hybrid model and have worked hard to elevate the needed skill sets of their commercial teams – especially strategic account managers. The pandemic has forced organizations to pivot and reinvent how they engage with customers. Five Elements of a COE.

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Upland

MARCH 29, 2023

Relationship management in sales is all about delivering value and understanding the people and problems at play within accounts – both from prospective and current customers – in order to help solve their greatest challenges. In fact, according to Forrester, in-person, face-to-face sales are back on the rise.

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Upland

APRIL 20, 2023

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. Through account management, your team can seek to establish themselves as trusted advisors to customers.

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Strategic Account Management Association

OCTOBER 26, 2021

In our organization’s work, we see much confusion and lack of clarity on executive sponsorship, even when it is in place. Clarifying the executive sponsor role, behaviors (internally and externally) and expectations is critical if we wish to leverage the role as an accelerator and create executive accountability within the account team.

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Mike Kunkle

MAY 11, 2022

Sales Transformation. I’ve been involved in sales transformations that were entirely focused on getting the best-possible performance out of the sales force (ranging from a 30 to 600 percent increase in sales), independent of retooling the rest of the organization. The Elements of Sales Force Effectiveness.

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ProlifIQ

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Defining a Sales Handoff The business model for many B2B Saas companies involves customer growth. Therefore, as a customer success manager, it is essential to train for successful customer onboardings and to work closely with the sales and customer support teams to ensure that customers have a positive experience from start to finish.

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SalesGlobe

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

And it’s the same for sales. As I was preparing to speak at a conference on “Building a Modern Sales Structure, from KPIs and What Matters Most” I kept shifting my thinking to “what matters most”. I continue to engage with our clients, who are mostly focused on solving their greatest sales challenges centered around growth.

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Upland

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Before you strategize how you’re going to sell, therefore, you have to understand the organization you’re selling to. But before you jump head-first into the sales process, there are four fundamental things you must know: 1. Most importantly, you’ll need to assess how import- ant this initiative is for the organization.

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Brooks Group

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

The success of any substantive change to your sales approach relies on company-wide buy-in. The same is true for implementing a new strategic account management plan. This is the type of change that can potentially lengthen the sales cycle and confuse your consultative sales professionals.

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Account Manager Tips

MAY 25, 2021

Before we get to that, let me explain how key account management became a business strategy. Key account management origin story Once upon a time, not only did sales reps win the client, they also supported them long after the deal was done. Sales people won the clients. Key account managers kept them. Kurzrock, W.

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Arpedio

MARCH 18, 2024

In the competitive world of B2B sales, leveraging precise and sophisticated sales strategies is not just an option but a necessity for success. Among these strategies, account mapping has emerged as a cornerstone methodology that fosters sales process optimization and drives sustainable growth.

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Quip

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Like many organizations, we sometimes tend to use PowerPoint for simple planning, project management, and even just sharing a story. Hot on the heels of these discoveries, we decided to have a collaborative roadmap process involving the entire organization at the same time – a first for DHL CSI. It's simple and lean. Scaling up.

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ProlifIQ

APRIL 21, 2023

Account Planning Growth Strategy For businesses looking to grow their revenue and achieve their goals, an effective account growth strategy is essential. This strategy involves developing a comprehensive plan to manage and grow the customer accounts that are critical to the business’s success.

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 22, 2020

Sales always has been, and always will be, about closing the deal. But, sales professionals cannot rely on cold calls and haphazard prospect visits if they want to meet their sales goals and make it into the top 10%. Sales Productivity Tools. HubSpot Sales Platform. Gamifier makes sales performance fun.

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Arpedio

DECEMBER 11, 2023

First name Last name Company Work email By submitting this form I agree to ARPEDIO's privacy policy and to receive marketing communications regarding products, services and events. Learn more Account Management Powerful account planning in Salesforce.

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ProlifIQ

JANUARY 7, 2022

Partnership enhances the rollout of account planning and bringing strategic account execution to life with seamless collaboration through Slack and Salesforce. As Slack accelerates how we communicate, Salesforce ISV Partners need ways to help their customers capitalize on these new efficiencies. About Centro.

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Arpedio

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

December 3 How does ARPEDIO's Opportunity Management solution benefit sales teams? Enter draw #1 Account-Based Selling Platform Treat your colleagues to an early Christmas present Relationship Mapping & Org Chart Improve your critical stakeholder relationships. Learn more Account Management Powerful account planning in Salesforce.

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Arpedio

DECEMBER 14, 2023

December 15 How can ARPEDIO's solutions accelerate the onboarding of new sales hires? Enter draw #1 Account-Based Selling Platform Treat your colleagues to an early Christmas present Relationship Mapping & Org Chart Improve your critical stakeholder relationships.

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Arpedio

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Enter draw #1 Account-Based Selling Platform Treat your colleagues to an early Christmas present Relationship Mapping & Org Chart Improve your critical stakeholder relationships. Learn more Account Management Powerful account planning in Salesforce.

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Arpedio

DECEMBER 23, 2023

December 24 In what ways can ARPEDIO enable your team to instantly address account shortcomings and enhance workflow efficiency and quality? Enter draw #1 Account-Based Selling Platform Treat your colleagues to an early Christmas present Relationship Mapping & Org Chart Improve your critical stakeholder relationships.

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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

If you ask most executives if they have a sales process , they’ll immediately say yes. But when you ask them to describe their sales process, their descriptions vary wildly. To some, a sales process means milestones in their sales pipeline. To others still, it means a key account plan. Call Management.

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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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ProlifIQ

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

According to Gartner , the definition of customer success is as follows: “Customer success is a method for ensuring customers reach their desired outcomes when using an organization’s product or service. This is essentially the industry standard way a sales team and customer success managers think about account management.

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Arpedio

JANUARY 4, 2024

In the competitive world of B2B sales, harnessing the power of an effective account mapping strategy is key to sales optimization and revenue growth. As businesses vie for market dominance, an articulate account strategy empowers organizations to deepen customer relationships and scale their operations effectively.

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Sales Latitude

AUGUST 2, 2018

As a sales professional, you may think your job is all about selling products and services, making quota, and driving revenue for your company. Here are five key things every sales professional must do to be successful. Do Thorough and Proactive Account Planning. Sure, ok – that’s true. But that’s not the whole picture.

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The Chapman Group

DECEMBER 8, 2020

It is understood that within many organizations there are existing account managers who have either been trained or who are extremely gifted and intuitive in the art and science of strategic account management. These are often the top achievers in the organization. Review and assess survey data with team.

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