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ALIGNING A MULTIFUNCTIONAL TEAM TO SOLVE A HEALTHCARE CUSTOMER’S LONG- STANDING PAIN POINT

Strategic Account Management Association

Pfizer is the winner of the 2021 SAMA Excellence Award for “Innovative Value Co-Creation.” The customer’s solution: a new patient care process for diverting lower-risk patients from the emergency department for immediate follow-up to an outpatient management clinic. By Emily Williams, Strategic Account Manager , Pfizer.

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FROM EXECUTIVE SPONSORSHIP TO EXECUTIVE ENGAGEMENT

Strategic Account Management Association

We need to focus on understanding the customer and helping the SAM deep dive in the customer environment and gain the insight and knowledge needed to deliver broader customer value. Adapting our corporate behaviors to fit the customer context. Creating strategic customer value and building trust requires time.

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Want to Accelerate Your SAM Journey? Create a Center of Excellence

Strategic Account Management Association

Many different roads are possible, but two foundations are needed for COEs: Organizations must think outside-in, build trust and long-term objectives and focus on the customer objectives first to generate growth and revenue for the customer and the organization. A COE can bring expertise for more customer value and differentiation.

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Key Takeaways From SAMA 2023 Annual Conference

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Key Takeaways From SAMA 2023 Annual Conference ← Back to blog Once again, The Strategic Account Management Association (SAMA) brought together sales and strategic account management professionals from around the globe for their annual conference. 75% of companies think they are customer-centric. 30% of customers actually agree.

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70+ Experts Reveal the Best Customer Retention Strategies During COVID-19

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Business owners like Reuben Yonatan, Paige Arnof-Fenn, Jayson DeMers, and 70+ others have shared their working, tried-and-tested strategies to retain customers during the pandemic. Rand Fishkin, Co-founder and CEO, SparkToro. Rand Fishkin is the co-founder and CEO of SparkToro. Jack Choros , Blog Editor, Iron Monk.

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Seismic Acquires Percolate to Create Exceptional Content Experiences at Every Point in the Customer Journey

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Percolate will be essential in helping Seismic widen our industry lead in enabling marketers do so in one-to-one customer interactions while also expanding our combined capabilities into all content initiatives and distribution channels. Doug Winter, Seismic co-founder and CEO. Blog Article. Blog Article. Blog Article.