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Key account management strategy: Setting things in motion

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Before attempting to develop a key account management strategy, you must know how to identify these key accounts. Accurate identification will help you avoid rashly categorizing tail accounts as having strategic value. What is strategic account management? decline in win rates.

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Quality over Quantity: How Focusing on a Select Few Accounts Can Drive Greater Success in Digital Key Account Management

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Quality over Quantity: How Focusing on a Select Few Accounts Can Drive Greater Success in Digital Key Account Management As digital Key Account Management grows in relevance, many organizations find themselves confounded by the question of whether obtaining new customers is more important than retaining existing key clients.

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How to define a strong KAM Training Path

KAM With Passion

This article focuses on individual competencies, especially those of the Key Account Managers. Other articles on this blog explore the collective KAM capabilities an organisation must develop to be successful with KAM. Defining Skills & Competencies. 3 Types of KAM-relevant Competencies.

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The Business Review: a modern classic, so important also during difficult times

KAM With Passion

To keep things relatively simple, let’s consider two types of context: Account Management and Key Account Management and let’s see how the execution of Business Reviews adapts to the depth of relationship between the supplier and each customer. Business Reviews in a Key Account Management context.

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Comprehensive Career Path Guide for a Key Account Manager

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Key Account Management (KAM) focuses on building long-term relationships, and aims to improve customer satisfaction – especially in a B2B scenario. A key account manager’s primary responsibility is ensuring that the needs of key clients are met, and that they remain satisfied with the company’s products and services.

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KAM Customer Life Cycle

Jermaine Edwards

This is especially true when it comes to the application of key account management and the elements that shape the success of existing customer management. Although it is not specific to key customer management, the steps illustrated are powerful and need to be considered.

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The-30-60-90-Day Blueprint: Your Path to Key Account Success

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By building and managing long-term relationships with your key accounts, you can create a foundation for sustainable growth. The 30-60-90-Day Blueprint is a time-bound, comprehensive approach to Key Account Management. The first step in this next phase is developing a customized account strategy.