Arpedio

MAY 10, 2023

Why Key Account Management is Essential for Business Success ← Back to blog In today’s fast-paced business world, simply acquiring new customers isn’t enough – you need to keep them coming back for more. That’s where Key Account Management (KAM) comes in. What is Key Account Management?

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DemandFarm

MARCH 31, 2023

With the growing size of buying groups in the digital age, it is imperative to consider factors that play into the challenges and benefits of digital key account management. Challenges in Shifting to Digital Key Account Management Shifting to Digital Key Account Management also comes with its fair share of challenges.

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PandaDoc

APRIL 21, 2023

Key accounts are the 20% of accounts that generate 80% of your company revenue. Before attempting to develop a key account management strategy, you must know how to identify these key accounts. Let’s examine what strategic account management is and the best ways to approach it.

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DemandFarm

APRIL 4, 2023

Why should you adopt Digital Key Account Management? What are some of the benefits of adopting digital account planning solutions for your key accounts? How will it be different from the existing account management strategies that you have adopted for your key accounts?

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Account Manager Tips

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Is your business and your key account management team growing fast? Do you feel like you're always playing catch-up and never have time for important projects, like developing processes that drive business growth or creating career paths for your key account managers? Click to Tweet.

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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. Our strategic key accounts appreciate the SV&I organization.

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ProlifIQ

JUNE 12, 2024

Monitoring and Evaluation: Having a baseline or starting point to measure improvement and performance is a strong way to make your case for retention and expansion. By engaging in thorough planning, organizations can increase their chances of achieving their objectives efficiently, effectively, and within the desired timeframe.

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KAM With Passion

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

By talking to each other and by making sure that conversations are meaningful to both parties. The evolution of social and economic parameters or business models and the disruption caused by the sanitary crisis do not make them less important. Business Reviews in an Account Management context. On the contrary.

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Upland

APRIL 20, 2023

Sellers can take these lessons and use them to land new, key accounts, but also grow revenue in all accounts. Through a combination of best practices, relationship mapping, and account planning, sellers and account managers can retain their status as trusted advisors, and keep the howling, lone wolves at bay.

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Account Manager Tips

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

First things first: find out what they want You can't adapt your account strategy until you understand what the new procurement team want. Schedule a discovery meeting as soon as possible to figure out what their priorities are. How do they want to manage supplier relationships? One Page Key Account Plan Guide & Template.

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Brightbridge Consulting

AUGUST 5, 2021

We are supporting the development of various activities through The Association for Key Account Management and Technological University Dublin, supported by Pfizer. We now look forward to booked engagements with the development of leadership and furtherance of account plans this Autumn. The post Meeting up?

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ProlifIQ

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Whether you’re part of the support team, count managers, or a business leader, understanding and implementing these strategies can be the difference in hitting a revenue target or not. What It Is Account management strategy is the roadmap that guides your interactions with key accounts.

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DemandFarm

MAY 22, 2024

Not just that, over 150,000 companies globally depend on Salesforce for CRM services, with the US making up 62% of Salesforce customers. Top Key Account Management Applications 1. The software offers real-time market knowledge, decision-making capabilities, and advantages across your strategic account portfolio.

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DemandFarm

MAY 25, 2023

Thank you for meeting with me last week. He is so pleased to be able to see, at one glance, all the key stakeholders in his key account. He knows immediately who can best influence the decision he will need when he presents them with a great growth opportunity. Based on our discussions, we’ve created a proposal.

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Account Manager Tips

MAY 25, 2021

Definition of key account management. If you're not sure what key account management is, don't worry, you're not alone. Before we get to that, let me explain how key account management became a business strategy. Key account managers kept them. But that's not all.

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Account Manager Tips

JUNE 29, 2021

Build relationships with decision-makers and expand your network. Close any gaps in your solution, meet all commitments and ensure your client is satisfied. Your job as a key account manager is to deliver the kind of value that convinces your clients to stay in the loop. Define price strategy. Benchmark pricing.

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ProlifIQ

JUNE 21, 2023

This alignment helps in driving sustainable growth and ensuring the overall success of the strategic account management program. Account plans are instrumental in managing and retaining strategic accounts. Strategic account management planning involves proactive and strategic thinking.

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Mercuri International

JULY 1, 2021

Most people think that the biggest challenge for a Key Account Manager is the need to understand their account but is this all that is needed? To serve their accounts as effectively as possible, the KAM needs to access resources across different business units and silos of their own company. Johansson, E.

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Revegy

OCTOBER 2, 2019

of sales organizations don’t take advantage of account planning to grow their strategic accounts. Why isn’t everyone successful when it comes to key account management? The 5 Challenges of Growing Key Accounts. According to SAMA, the average strategic account has 12 to 15 key decision-makers.

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Account Manager Tips

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Are you doing key account management the hard way? Effective key account management requires you to increase profits, develop relationships, increase satisfaction, grow revenue, improve retention and reduce conflict. Let's take a look at 7 of my favourite key account management tools.

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Jermaine Edwards

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

In 2016 I wrote a post on the five foundation steps for stakeholder management success in key account management, that was well received and guided lots of leaders. A plan provides clarity and buy-in to what you want to achieve as you’ve spent time considering what’s important to your customer.

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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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Arpedio

MAY 31, 2024

The Preferred Account-Based Selling Platform Our platform provides visual org charts, stakeholder relationship heat maps, up-to-date account plans, recommended next-best actions, accurate weighted pipelines, and white space analysis. Let’s dive in.

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Arpedio

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Account management software tools Account Management Software ← Back to blog Account management software solutions have transformed the way businesses handle their account planning and client interactions. These powerful tools offer a centralized platform that simplifies a wide range of tasks.

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Account Manager Tips

OCTOBER 11, 2021

15 Reasons Why You Might be a Bad Account Manager Bad key account managers fail to build business relationships and achieve results. Here are fifteen signs you might be a bad key account manager and how to turn yourself into a good one. Has no plan Which clients need an account plan?

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DemandFarm

MAY 12, 2023

It provides the tools and knowledge to take Global Account Management to the next level and unlock your business’s full potential. Read Now: 4 Ways To Optimize Your Global Key Account Management Understanding Global Account Management Embarking on the Global Account Management journey may seem a bit daunting at first!

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Account Management Skills

AUGUST 24, 2021

Not project management systems, not CRM systems, but having a dedicated system to guide the agency account management team, when it comes to managing and delve developing existing client relationships. Kapta is a key account management platform. And Kapta is a key account management platform.

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ProlifIQ

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Once you understand more about the customer, you should plan out how you think your company can meet their needs. Your plan should reflect benefits, not features, and what your customer wants, not what you want from them. Who are the key decision-makers you want to eventually reach? Build a Value Case.

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DemandFarm

AUGUST 31, 2023

Success lies in a tailored, strategic approach to customer success management. One that leverages Key Account Management (KAM) principles to retain customers and transform them into brand advocates. Masterclass by Forrester Principal Analyst Anthony McPartlin: Why companies fail with key account management?

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Arpedio

JANUARY 26, 2022

White Space Analysis for Key Account Management. There’s no denying that White Space is intriguing for all stakeholders in the SAM (Strategic Account Management) ecosystem. By performing White Space Analysis on your key accounts, you’ll be able to: Spot opportunities for cross- and upselling.

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Arpedio

JANUARY 26, 2022

White Space Analysis for Key Account Management. There’s no denying that White Space is intriguing for all stakeholders in the SAM (Strategic Account Management) ecosystem. By performing White Space Analysis on your key accounts, you’ll be able to: Spot opportunities for cross- and upselling.

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Louise Collins Associates

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

So when organisations have tried, and failed, to introduce Key Account Management (KAM) it is no different. My observation across multiple organisations is that KAM often lacks the leadership required to make it work. Effective Key Account Management (KAM) requires organisational leadership and specific coaching.

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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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DemandFarm

APRIL 8, 2024

The best account managers , however, have a secret sauce that differentiates them from the others. At the core of their ABS is an often-overlooked perspective–selling to the humans behind the steely structures that make up their accounts lists. What can be a blink and miss moment is slow motion for us. Org Chart 2.0:

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Account Manager Tips

AUGUST 3, 2022

When to give up Forms of communication (from most to least effective) Favourite book on follow up In other news Have your say on the future of key account management Quote of the week. We follow up with clients for to close a sale, to ask a question, to get a decision, to share information or reminders. Make it easy.

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Account Manager Tips

JULY 9, 2020

Some hiring managers move fast and you may not have the time to do your plan justice if you haven't at least got a draft completed. A detailed list of all the activities you need to do to get settled into your new account management role, grouped into 30 day periods. Or will you make a clean break?

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Arpedio

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Account-Based Selling: A Deep Dive with Lee Levitt and Ulrik Monberg Explore the ARPEDIO platform ← Back to blog In the ever-evolving world of enterprise sales, strategies and tools are constantly refined to meet the dynamic needs of businesses. He recalls a meeting with the CEO of a large insurance company.

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