Jermaine Edwards

MAY 18, 2020

There are 10 immutable laws that shape the philosophy, outcomes and actions of high performing businesses, key account managers and customer serving professionals over the long-term. There are many external risks to the management and health of a customer account. Here they are…. What do I mean by this?

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DemandFarm

APRIL 26, 2023

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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MTD Sales Training

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

I received an email last week from Trevor Borrows who is a newly appointed National Sales Manager in charge of a team of Account Managers. Here’s what Trevor asked: “Hi Sean, being a new National Sales Manager I need to understand how to develop account strategies. Account retention.

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Jermaine Edwards

MARCH 17, 2020

This is such an important question yet most organisations have not established a clear distinctive path, identifiers and actions for effectively managing the full customer relationship journey. Companies like Hubspot, Mckinsey and Apple say they get benefits from evaluating their customer life cycle to: Increase customer profitability.

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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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Jermaine Edwards

APRIL 3, 2020

According to Deloitte Global’s 2018 crisis management survey, “ Stronger, Fitter, Better: Crisis Management for the Resilient Enterprise ,” nearly 60% of respondents believe that organisations face more crises today than they did ten years ago, yet many may overestimate their capabilities to respond. Five-step Customer Crisis Plan.

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SmartKarrot

APRIL 13, 2023

In today’s economic environment, effective account management is essential for building and maintaining strong client relationships and achieving growth. From podcasts and webinars to blogs and social media posts, these influencers are using a range of channels to help other account managers learn, grow, and succeed.

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SmartKarrot

MAY 27, 2020

Has your mind been pondering around these questions like – ‘What skills are the top account management companies looking for’? Are they even looking for account managers to hire? Let’s see how you can benefit from the best account manager training available online. LAMP Account Management Training .

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Jermaine Edwards

APRIL 16, 2020

Loss of customer revenue and profitability. Getting our customers onboard quickly with new thinking and not getting stuck in a place of fear. Poor internal and global customer collaboration. Rising costs and a heavily regulated market. The big question is… what do we do once we’ve identified the problem? Hyper Adaptation System (HAS).

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Arpedio

JANUARY 11, 2023

How to Succeed With Account Management. Let’s show you how to get the most out of your account management! In this blog, we’ll break down the concept of account management, and why it’s so important in order to drive a successful business in today’s increasingly complex B2B industry. Back to blog.

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Deep Insight

AUGUST 16, 2021

Elephant hunting is difficult to do, but very profitable if you’re successful. Whale Hunting with Global Accounts. It’s not often that I write book reviews but if there’s one book on sales management you should plan to read before the end of the summer holidays, it’s Whale Hunting with Global Accounts.

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Jermaine Edwards

MAY 6, 2020

They began to see 20% of their customer base move to explore manufacturing overseas to reduce their own costs, access new markets and grow their profits. Pivoting is one type of change and an important change to master when managing and supporting your customers. Over a number of years as taxes and new regulations drove-up their costs.

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Jermaine Edwards

APRIL 29, 2020

What if leadership was what we really needed in key account management today? It wasn’t until we moved from customer management into personal and customer leadership that things shifted significantly. We created new opportunities, maintained profitability and formed new partnerships. I suddenly realised….

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