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How to Boost Sales Productivity with Account Planning

Upland

Sales productivity involves how efficiently and effectively a sales team can generate revenue—while managing costs and resources, building customer relationships, and staying competitive in the market. In a world with account planning, sales productivity is greater, revenue rises, and customers are better served.

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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? We have seen an increased interest in moving to a more focused, value-bringing and high impact engagement model. Three Pillars of Success. We think not.

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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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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. They do this by digesting all the insight available and by connecting them with what is important to the customer.

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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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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

Today, as advisors in the strategic account management space, we are surprised and disheartened to see that marketing is often not only missing at the strategic account team table but also working from an inside-out products focus, rather than an outside-in customer focus. But this is only the starting point.