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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. Now more than ever, many customers are looking for suppliers that effectively offer strategic thought leadership. A process for internal and external value co-creation. Turning lemons into lemonade. 4: Focus on value.

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We’re All in Sales – Or Maybe Not

Mike Kunkle

We’re trying to persuade, influence, and negotiate to get what we want and get others to do what we want. It’s value creation (solution matching, co-creation, or solution design to achieve outcomes). And, when they are buying, you might negotiate to ensure the transaction is mutually beneficial and win-win. (Or,

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Exploring the Influence of AI on Leadership Roles – an experiment by a CEO

MDI Training

Exploring the Influence of AI on Leadership Roles: Learn more about the ongoing ChatGPT experiment by MDI CEO Gunther Fürstberger In a ChatGPT experiment, our CEO Gunther Fürstberger tried to test the boundaries between artificial intelligence and humans. AI does not yet have a (co-)decision-making role.

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The 33 Best Sales Training Video Channels on YouTube

Hubspot Sales

Another must-watch video introduces the core concept of a book Cialdini co-authored with Steve Martin and Dr. Noah Goldstein called “ The Small Big ” -- the secret to finding the smallest change that will have the biggest impact. It features his renowned seminars on leadership, sales, and management effectiveness. 4) Art Sobczak.

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Top 50 Women Leaders in Customer Success 2022

SmartKarrot

Her portfolio is gilded with leadership roles like board director, investor, COO, and P&L owner. She has acquired numerous skills through her years of experience, including account management , business development, lead generation, contract negotiation, project implementation, partner engagement, and customer retention.

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The Sliding Scale of Sales Transformation

Mike Kunkle

As applicable, understanding of vendor and channel partners and how to most effectively build relationships and engage with them to uncover, manage, and win opportunities through the effective co-creation of solutions for customers. Value Creation. Negotiating is included here. SFE FUNDAMENTALS. DESCRIPTION.

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The 35 best pieces of sales advice for 2022 from sales experts

Zendesk

Dive in as they share their hard-earned knowledge on the following topics: Sales leadership. Sales leadership. Fix the problems.” — Ben Sardella , co-founder of Datanyze. We’ve fired top performers because they didn’t fit our culture [and slowed us down].” — Wiley Cerilli , CEO and co-founder of SinglePlatform.