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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Strategic Account Management Association

AUGUST 6, 2021

“In a multi-phased approach, the local account management activities for the defined SV&I accounts have been transferred to the globally acting and responsible SV&I client business partners.”. We introduced the title of “client business partner” differentiating this role from the standard key account management function.

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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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Brightbridge Consulting

OCTOBER 12, 2019

Defining key account management. After much discussion The Association for Key Account Management (AKAM), of which Alistair Taylor, Managing Partner of Brightbridge is a main Board Member, agreed on the following definition of key Account management. Formal definitions.

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Account Manager Tips

MARCH 23, 2021

Portrait Software became a key account, and within 18 months, that partnership led to winning the larger Pitney Bowes business. Which is why key account management is so important. First, to what extent does this customer deliver the profitability of a company. High dependency means key. Alex Berg ?

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Arpedio

APRIL 29, 2024

SAM professionals are not just account managers; they play a pivotal role as value creators, ecosystem orchestrators, and pioneers of data-driven decision-making, crucial for unlocking market share and profitability. Christian Portmann guided us through DHL’s journey, emphasizing key elements pivotal to their success.

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SmartKarrot

MAY 15, 2023

In the fast-paced and ever-evolving world of business, nurturing strong and lasting relationships with key clients is crucial for success. Key Account Management (KAM) is the art of strategically managing and nurturing these vital accounts, unlocking their full potential and driving long-term growth.

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SmartKarrot

MAY 12, 2023

In today’s highly competitive business landscape, managing and nurturing key accounts has become a critical aspect of organizational success. Key Account Management (KAM) is a strategic approach that focuses on developing long-term, mutually beneficial relationships with a select group of high-potential customers.

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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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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. Winner takes all?

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ProlifIQ

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

If you’re not familiar, opportunity planning is what top sales reps do to strategize how they’ll find, qualify, pursue, and close a deal within a target account. It’s similar to account planning, but more focused on opportunity health vs your overall account health., Know the Roles in the Account.

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Revegy

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Your approach to managing and growing your most strategic accounts impacts your ability to optimize revenue. Why Focus on Key Accounts? Key Accounts are your most profitable, scalable, and tenured clients. Key accounts are hard to win, hard to retain and particularly challenging to grow.

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Revegy

MAY 14, 2018

According to a CSO Insights study, companies that engage in effective ongoing key account planning have win rates nearly double that of companies without a formal process. The Business Cost of Key Accounts. Key accounts are often untapped reservoirs of potential business.

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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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Account Manager Tips

JUNE 29, 2021

Your job as a key account manager is to deliver the kind of value that convinces your clients to stay in the loop. Shareholders and board/directors value growth, costs, profit and cashflow. Create a joint account plan well before the renewal date. Include a SWOT analysis in your account plan.

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KAMCast

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

So, with so many quotes by smart people to remind us of the importance of proper preparation and planning to avoid poor performance…WHY do most account plans simply NOT WORK? Perhaps the answer is simple and it is because most account plans are just too complicated! Perhaps some team members don’t even bother.

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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. FAQ How does an account planning tool help strategic account management processes?

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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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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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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. Stakeholders influence can be both positive or negative on project sign off, commercial profitability, resource access and long-term relationship success.

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SmartKarrot

APRIL 13, 2023

Top 20 Account Management Influencers 2023 [Listed Alphabetically] 1. Abhijit Gangoli Abhijit Gangoli is a co-founder and CEO at DemandFarm , a key account management (KAM) software that helps companies to make KAM data-driven , predictable and scalable.

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SmartKarrot

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

It takes both art and science to handle key accounts. Some aspects of account planning are constructing a sales strategy, developing a consistent technique for gathering background information on important clients, and establishing relationships based on proactive management and support. Let us discuss them –.

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Janek Performance Group: Account Planning

JULY 13, 2021

What is Strategic Account Management? Also called key account management, SAM is a methodology that involves identifying important accounts and cultivating mutually beneficial relationships with those clients. Why should we use strategic account management?

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Arpedio

JANUARY 11, 2023

In order to do so, you should invest in your account management processes – so you can equip your strategic account managers with the best working environment to manage the complex journey of long-term account development. What Is an Account Manager? Are you already using Saleforce?

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