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

Account Manager Tips

As a supplier you need to adjust fast and build a foundation of trust. My old contact has been replaced First things first: find out what they want 10 steps to become a supplier of choice Check these out Quote of the week. Pre-existing relationships with competitors that may jeopardise your current status as a supplier.

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

KAM With Passion

What is true in the private life is true in business as well, especially between a supplier and their customers. They need their suppliers to come to them with a “seek to serve” mentality. In order to understand their customer needs, in good like in bad times, suppliers need to run regular Business Reviews with them.

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Account-Based Marketing: Time to future proof your marketing efforts to become customer-led and team enabled.

Cosawi

When well-executed, account-based marketing provides a pathway to anticipating where the customer is trying to go and helping the customer get to where they want to go sooner, less expensively and with greater value realization. In the one-to-one scenario, the supplier is trying to distill the value of targeting customers.

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Top Tips For Managing Accounts

MTD Sales Training

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. This involves the following: * Account selection.

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Becoming the expert for your customer

Jermaine Edwards

Among the many suppliers your customers have to engage with, your decision to do the work and show up as the expert will transform how you are viewed. Being the expert requires work, and it’s not for everyone. And most will just not do it! That means you have the opportunity to stand out as a partner to your customers.

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Stakeholder Mastery 3.0 – The Six Steps You Must Take

Jermaine Edwards

They may come from a range of places: customers, their suppliers, your suppliers, managers, senior managers, employees, your immediate team, support functions e.g. Finance, HR, Purchasing etc, shareholders, government, regulatory bodies, the general public, trade unions.

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The Six Critical Ingredients for the Best Account Plan Ever

Revegy

According to SiriusDecisions, a global B2B research firm focused on sales strategy, a critical component of a great account plan is charting the product landscape in the account by listing the closed, active and potential opportunities for each buying center, and then grouping opportunities by product or service categories.