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Turning lemons into lemonade: Five ways to reset on customer management fundamentals in a post-pandemic world

Strategic Account Management Association

By Dave Duke, Co-Founder and CCO, MetaCX, and Joel Schaafsma, Research General Manager, SAMA. In business, it has created an opportunity to reflect on how companies are managing customers, and it has given customers a window of opportunity to re-evaluate their supplier relationships to determine which partnerships are truly valuable.

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Ten insights on the future of SAM

Strategic Account Management Association

Panelists: Jennifer Stanley, Partner, McKinsey & Co.; Shifting from focus on shareholder value only to stakeholder value as well – and a broadening understanding of what stakeholder value means. Make sure your internal stakeholders understand the value your program brings to customers and, through them, to the firm.

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Key Account Manager or Strategic Ecosystem Leader?

Arpedio

The KAM must manage a program and lead the business strategy across internal stakeholders and the value co-creation with the stakeholders at their key accounts – not a trivial endeavor. Follow us on LinkedIn to get all the newest perspectives and insights around strategic relationship management and sales innovation.

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4 Sales Methodologies That Will Maximize Your Sales Success

Arpedio

The MEDDIC sales methodology is well-suited for enterprise sales organizations that need extensive qualification as enterprise sales (almost always) require 1) engagement from numerous stakeholders, and 2) a complex solution to meet their needs. And for this, MEDDIC is ideally suited as a sales qualification process. Superior together.

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The Importance of Co-Creating Value with Every Strategic Customer

Account Manager Tips

20 ways to encourage value co-creation with your customers Favourite collaboration app Listener tip In other news Quote of the week. And what if we take it one step further and ask what it means to "co-create value" with our customers? Which is why co-creation is so powerful. We hear the word "value" all the time.

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Book review – Managing Brands

Red Star Kim

The course also offers a helpful brand creation plan and a brand plan template (brand essence, brand assets, brand protection and brand strategy). There are references to multi-branding and co-branding/partnership marketing also. Porter’s generic strategies (cost leadership, differentiation and focus) are relevant here.

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A Step-by-Step Guide to Landing Your First Enterprise Client

SmartKarrot

Enterprise sales: Selling a good or service to an enterprise involves a lengthy sales cycle, numerous stakeholders, a lot of money, many risks, and a lot of complexity. Promote a solution: Dealing with several stakeholders, each with their own wants and issues that need to be resolved, is a part of enterprise sales. Be not alarmed.