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10 Steps to Win Over Your Client’s New Procurement Team

Account Manager Tips

New procurement teams introduce big challenges and new opportunities into the customer relationship. My old contact has been replaced A new procurement team introduces fresh dynamics and relationships. The working environment will undoubtedly change from what you were used to with the previous procurement team.

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How Relationship Maps Put the “R” Back Into CRM

Revegy

Since relationship management is key to closing deals, it’s clear that sales reps need purpose-built tools to gain the intelligence necessary to manage accounts and drive opportunities. Research Brief: Strategic Account Planning Segmentation. Leveraging Relationship Maps to Drive Strategic Selling.

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5 Important Elements For Strategic Account Planning Sessions

Openview

Arguably one of the most underrated elements of enterprise sales is account planning. However, even though strategic account planning sessions are viewed by the sales organization as helpful and important, they simply don’t happen often enough. said that salespeople are “encouraged” to develop strategic account plans.

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10 New Capture Strategy Tips to Keep Clients & Avoid Competitive Bids

Account Manager Tips

Create contact plans to keep in touch with key stakeholders in your company and your client's. GRAHAM Different stakeholders will value different things. Who are your stakeholders, and what floats their value boat? Stakeholders value business improvement. Stakeholders value business improvement.

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Benefits of Digital Key Account Management for Large Businesses

DemandFarm

Ensuring the entire organization is part of the change, making everyone an advocate and engaging the whole team will in turn make the adoption of Digital Key Account Management easier. The leadership team plays a big role in creating an impression that as a business it is vital to understand all the stakeholders in the buying process.

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Are You Letting Your Clients Slip Away? 12 Tips to Keep in Touch

Account Manager Tips

Too many clients, not enough time Key account managers have a lot of clients. From procurement, to executives, to end users and everything in between. How do you maintain those critical customer relationships, especially as you grow, get more accounts, launch more services, solve more issues? Worth a click Quote of the week.

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The Importance of Sales to CS Handoff

ProlifIQ

This is especially critical when dealing with large accounts with the potential to upsell. Large accounts typically come with a large number of stakeholders the seller must engage, as well as technical obstacles and red tape to get past. This is where the account plan comes in handy.