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. Happy customers buy more.

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ProlifIQ

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The State of Account Planning in 2024 2023 was a challenging year for go-to-market teams. With economic uncertainty, slowing growth, and more scrutiny on every purchase, many teams struggled to close deals and retain accounts. As companies mature, digital channels for researching account planning tools also diversify.

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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

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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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? One key account planning tool is multi-threading.

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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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Janek Performance Group: Account Planning

OCTOBER 25, 2023

This makes account planning essential. More than upselling and cross-selling, account planning is partnering with existing clients. Altify notes account planning has increased from 36 percent of companies in 2013 to 50 percent today. Plus, with account planning, 74 percent see increased win rates.

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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

JANUARY 5, 2024

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. It is the blueprint to navigate the complexities of customer engagements and the secret weapon to unlock the true potential of your accounts.

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DemandFarm

JUNE 13, 2023

Account Planning Readiness Assessment: Developed by Forrester Assess your organization’s readiness for effective account planning with this downloadable checklist by Forrester. Receive actionable guidance and industry expertise to enhance your account planning capabilities and drive long-term success.

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ProlifIQ

MAY 7, 2021

In sales, B2B account planning is kind of like plotting a heist, minus the stealing. The same principle applies: the bigger the prize, the more aggressive and daring your plan has to be. Here’s what the data say about B2B account planning and how sales teams can benefit from creating big plans for big companies.

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Upland

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

It is the job of these trusted stakeholders to make sure that they make the right purchasing decision for their business or organization. A buying group is a clear indication that a business is taking a solution seriously, and it is the buying group that influences the decision of those higher up in the organization.

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Arpedio

JUNE 2, 2023

How to Ignite Success With Account Plans ← Back to blog Say hello to Account Plans, the secret sauce that transforms ordinary sales strategies into extraordinary journeys of client engagement and revenue growth. In this blog post, we’re diving headfirst into the captivating world of Account Plans.

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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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Strategic Account Management Association

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Only by making astute observations will you uncover potential new sources of value. Make sure your internal stakeholders understand the value your program brings to customers and, through them, to the firm. The profile of strategic account teams will shift dramatically. Centers of Excellence (CoE). Agility is the new stability.

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Arpedio

AUGUST 24, 2022

Account Planning: Manage Long-Term Account Development. Account Planning: Manage Long-Term Account Development. ? What Is Account Planning? Strategic Account Planning. What Should a Key Account Plan Include? How to Do Account Planning? Back to blog.

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ProlifIQ

APRIL 8, 2021

Create a systematic plan to go after major accounts without dragging out sales cycles and inaccurately forecasting your quarterly pipeline. . Here, we’ll talk about how an account planning strategy can help you shorten your selling cycle and close major deals even faster than before. A higher number of stakeholders.

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Luminas Strategy

OCTOBER 2, 2022

Like many mature organizations, most of their revenue came from a small base of strategic accounts they thought were highly penetrated. They developed a plan that covered their top accounts and a handful of strategic prospects and followed it consistently. It had nothing to do with the plan components or the plan process.

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Upland

JANUARY 26, 2023

This is where account-based selling really gets interesting. Account-Based Sales Takes a Revenue Team One of the top challenges organizations face in transitioning to an account-based sales model is the change in mindset necessary to succeed at account-based selling. The seller needs a revenue team.

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ProlifIQ

MAY 7, 2021

In sales, B2B account planning is kind of like plotting a heist, minus the stealing. The same principle applies: the bigger the prize, the more aggressive and daring your plan has to be. Here’s what the data say about B2B account planning and how sales teams can benefit from creating big plans for big companies.

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ProlifIQ

JANUARY 18, 2022

If you incorporate these account-based selling strategies into your plan, your team’s chances of being one of those outperforming organizations go up tremendously. Let’s cover some of the approaches top sales teams take when taking on high-value accounts. . First, Here’s Why You Shouldn’t Sell Without a Key Account Plan.

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ProlifIQ

MAY 14, 2021

If you incorporate an innovative, account planning strategy into your routine, your chances of success go up tremendously. Let’s cover some of the approaches top sales teams take when taking on high-value accounts. First, Understand the Essentials of a Strong Account Planning Strategy.

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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. This is why so many attempts at effective account planning go wrong.

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Upland

MARCH 23, 2023

Who makes the final decision? While at first, these questions might appear distinct, at heart they are all asking the same thing – how effectively has the team been able to build relationships in the account? These usually include: What’s the latest update? Who are we talking to? Who else do we need to talk to?

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Upland

JULY 12, 2023

And it’s all about deal qualification MEDDIC – a deal qualification framework Many think that MEDDIC is a sales process , but it’s really a deal qualification framework with multiple processes for decision criteria, decision process, etc. It moved us from talking about qualification to talking about account planning more broadly.

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Upland

AUGUST 9, 2023

Rather, it’s vital to the success of each and every deal we make. Simply put, exceptional sales organizations make their customers’ goals the number one priority. We don’t want our deals to start leaning the way the Tower of Piza did after just 10 meters into the project. These teams never ask “What can I sell?”

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ProlifIQ

APRIL 8, 2021

Create a systematic plan to go after major accounts without dragging out sales cycles and inaccurately forecasting your quarterly pipeline. . Here, we’ll talk about how an account planning strategy can help you shorten your selling cycle and close major deals even faster than before. A higher number of stakeholders.

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ProlifIQ

MAY 14, 2021

If you incorporate an innovative, account planning strategy into your routine, your chances of success go up tremendously. Let’s cover some of the approaches top sales teams take when taking on high-value accounts. First, Understand the Essentials of a Strong Account Planning Strategy.

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ProlifIQ

JUNE 29, 2020

Financial services and account planning go together like peanut butter and jelly, like bacon and eggs, or like a burger and fries. Here are 8 reasons financial services companies need account planning. . It’s crucial for financial services reps to keep track of everyone within a key account. Stay Organized.

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ProlifIQ

JUNE 29, 2020

Financial services and account planning go together like peanut butter and jelly, like bacon and eggs, or like a burger and fries. Here are 8 reasons financial services companies need account planning. . It’s crucial for financial services reps to keep track of everyone within a key account. Stay Organized.

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Upland

MARCH 13, 2023

In fact, having the right methodologies and best practices in place throughout the entire sales process, married with the right technology, can make sales forecasting look a lot more like an exact science. It can be articulated effectively and used to make the most important and business critical decisions.

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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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Upland

MARCH 29, 2023

This is part of the mindset shift required to become effective at relationship management and is also a key aspect of account planning. It means building out a robust understanding of roles in the decision-making process, how (and to what extent) they exert influence and what priorities are top-of-their-mind.

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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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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

JUNE 14, 2023

And how can account planning help? In this article, we’ll dive deeper into each of these areas to uncover what chief revenue officers can do to address some of their most pressing issues, and how an effective account planning practice can help. There’s plenty of uncertainty in the economy right now.

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Upland

APRIL 5, 2023

But what it does mean is that sellers need to make the most of their time with buyers. Benefits of a Revenue Team Apart from giving sellers what they need to make the most out of their interactions with sellers, there are several other reasons to consider a revenue team.

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