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How to Boost Sales Productivity with Account Planning

Upland

Sales productivity becomes even more difficult for complex B2B accounts with large buying groups and multiple divisions involved in the decision-making process. Why account planning is essential to boost sales productivity Account planning is the process of mapping out key aspects of a potential customer or account.

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

Strategic Account Management Association

Disruption Leads to Innovation. Disruption, although most times unwelcome, gives way to innovation. Could the mother of creativity and innovation, in fact, be disruption? The pandemic has forced organizations to pivot and reinvent how they engage with customers. This last year has certainly proven this saying.

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The Power of Account-Based Marketing: A Thales Case Study

Cosawi

In our more traditional groups, marketing, and sales work in locked steps but it seems that the shift to strategic account management is often missing marketing when time comes to establish its roadmap. The omnichannel approach ensures that the customer receives a consistent message across all touchpoints.

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Key Takeaways From SAMA 2023 Annual Conference

Arpedio

This recognition underscored the need for account managers to prioritize customer value and gain insights into individualized customer interactions, emphasizing the significance of maintaining strong relationships, linking transactions, and ensuring a superior customer experience. . #6

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Thinking Globally and acting local

Cosawi

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. Disruption, although most times unwelcome, gives way to innovation.

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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?