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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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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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

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

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. Plus, with account planning, 74 percent see increased win rates.

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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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Strategic Account Management Association

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Non-traditional sources of value will play a growing role in how stakeholders evaluate the impact of companies and their strategic accounts efforts. #2. Sales and account management – no longer an expense but an investment. While firms once viewed sales as an expense, in this environment it’s clearly an investment.

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Upland

MARCH 23, 2023

Having trouble setting accurate sales forecasts or seeing close dates consistently sandbagged to next quarter? Regardless of the size of your company, the sales leader gathers sellers and runs them through the standard set of questions. Who makes the final decision? What Causes Sandbagging in Sales?

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Upland

JULY 12, 2023

MEDDIC is not actually a healthcare term. It’s a sales acronym. 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.

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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

MARCH 13, 2023

Sales forecasting is equal parts art and science, right? The ‘art’ aspect of sales forecasting doesn’t need to be an educated guest. It can be articulated effectively and used to make the most important and business critical decisions. What is a Sales Forecast? Is Sales Forecasting Outdated?

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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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ProlifIQ

APRIL 8, 2021

If you want to maximize sales revenue, you need to put a method to the madness. Create a systematic plan to go after major accounts without dragging out sales cycles and inaccurately forecasting your quarterly pipeline. . When Do You Need Account-Based Selling? Longer sales cycles. How do you do this?

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Upland

JUNE 14, 2023

What are the top challenges facing chief revenue officers and sales leaders in 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.

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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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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

When your sales team is eyeing key accounts loaded with potential revenue, planning ahead is crucial. A well-crafted B2B sales strategy can be the difference between victory and defeat. Let’s cover some of the approaches top sales teams take when taking on high-value accounts. . Getting everyone on board.

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ProlifIQ

MAY 14, 2021

When your sales team is eyeing key accounts loaded with potential revenue, planning ahead is crucial. A well-crafted B2B sales strategy can be the difference between victory and defeat. If you incorporate an innovative, account planning strategy into your routine, your chances of success go up tremendously.

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ProlifIQ

APRIL 8, 2021

If you want to maximize sales revenue, you need to put a method to the madness. Create a systematic plan to go after major accounts without dragging out sales cycles and inaccurately forecasting your quarterly pipeline. . When Do You Need Account-Based Selling? Longer sales cycles. How do you do this?

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ProlifIQ

MAY 14, 2021

When your sales team is eyeing key accounts loaded with potential revenue, planning ahead is crucial. A well-crafted B2B sales strategy can be the difference between victory and defeat. If you incorporate an innovative, account planning strategy into your routine, your chances of success go up tremendously.

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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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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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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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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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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

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. What’s putting the squeeze on your customer’s key decision-makers? What are their goals?

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Arpedio

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The session covers everything you need to know about empowering sales leaders, applying Account-Based Selling (ABS) technologies and AI in Salesforce ecosystems, and the crucial interplay between technology, trust, and the future of B2B interactions.

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Clarity Engagement Solutions

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

This solution will help optimise sales performance in your company and will aid you to mean more to your customers. Sales productivity tools have been around a long time. CX1™ HELPS YOU MANAGE: • Multiple types of stakeholders, decision-makers and influencers. Longer sales cycles. • Request a CX1™ Demo Here.

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Arpedio

APRIL 15, 2024

What is Sales Enablement? In order to improve sales effectiveness and drive revenue growth, it is crucial to have a clear understanding of sales enablement. This strategic approach aligns marketing and sales efforts, enhances buyer interactions, and optimizes the sales process.

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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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Revegy

JULY 17, 2018

Are your account plans helping your teams meet their quotas or are they missing the mark? Without comprehensive, well thought out account plans, companies are missing out on major revenue opportunities and risk losing some of their largest clients. 1) Figure Out Who Matters with Relationship Maps.

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Upland

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Typically, there can be up to 10 individuals involved in a B2B sale. To handle this complexity, sellers need the right tools, strategies, and methodologies to understand the people, problems and relationships that matter within an account. Long-term: B2B sales is all about becoming a long-term, strategic partner to your customers.

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DemandFarm

APRIL 28, 2023

The world of sales is evolving at a breakneck pace. A recent Salesforce study revealed that over 95% of sales operations professionals and sales leaders believe that Artificial Intelligence (AI) coupled with automation gives sales reps more time to focus on selling. This number is growing every day.

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Arpedio

APRIL 29, 2024

By addressing these four key components, you can gain valuable insights into a prospect’s readiness and likelihood of making a purchase. Implementing the BANT methodology in your sales process can help you qualify leads more efficiently, focus your efforts on high-potential prospects, and ultimately close more deals.

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Upland

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Account planning has never been so necessary – or so challenging – to get right. When used effectively, account planning benefits businesses by delivering more revenue, happier customers, and more effective sales teams. . But what exactly is account planning, and why is it so important in 2023? .

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