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Lessons from a Winning Global Account Management (GAM) Program

Strategic Account Management Association

We conducted client interviews and facilitated group discussions through our customer advisory board. This research revealed that our clients’ greatest need for strategic alignment was in envisioning and maintaining a digital enablement roadmap. million at program launch to $8.4 million today.

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Fly’s Friday Five: Successful Sellers Value Trust Over Being Liked

Brooks Group

Many sellers have a predisposition to being liked, and we have learned through surveys, work with clients, interviews with buyers, and in our own experiences that right now trust is much more important than being liked. We thought they wanted to have familiarity with the facilitator, and that was not it at all.

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Understanding Account-Based Marketing: A Podcast Interview with Bev Burgess, Founder and Managing Principal, Inflexion Group

Farland Group

Where some companies have made great strides is where marketing has helped to build new content and to facilitate the development of thought leadership. Make sure that, if it’s an advisory board meeting or it’s a bigger program-shaping thing, you have questions ready that they can then shape and build on.