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FROM EXECUTIVE SPONSORSHIP TO EXECUTIVE ENGAGEMENT

Strategic Account Management Association

Strategic account management is a team sport and requires cross-functional, multi-tiered vertical level engagement and strong accountability. The executive sponsor has a role in creating and building the customer-centric culture for strategic account management. This name implies buy-in from the executive and the “be-in” mindset.

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

Farland Group

A: “It is the idea behind the business; I have two co-founders, Louise Jefferson and Tim Shercliff. We realize that’s beyond marketing—it’s marketing, it’s sales and account management, it’s customer success, and it’s your executives, all working together to focus on those accounts. A: “Co-creation is crucial now.

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How to systemise account management in your agency, with Alex Raymond

Account Management Skills

In this episode, I talk to Alex Raymond from Kapta about everything to do with account management processes. Not project management systems, not CRM systems, but having a dedicated system to guide the agency account management team, when it comes to managing and delve developing existing client relationships.

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The Importance of Aligning Marketing and Sales

Strategic Communications

“Today there’s no reason for prospects to speak with sales teams early when all the information they want, need, and crave is just one search away,” says Joshua Feinberg, CEO and co-founder of SP Home Run. This can start with strategy, says Lee Frederiksen, managing partner of Hinge, a marketing firm for the professional services industry.

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Transformation through Agile Leadership

Cosawi

Strategic account management is a team sport and requires cross-functional, vertical level engagement and strong accountability. The executive sponsor has a role in creating and building the customer-centric culture for strategic account management. This name implies buy-in from the executive and the “be-in” mindset.

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What agencies need to know about generative AI, with Roy Murphy

Account Management Skills

– what you need to know right now as an agency account manager about the AI industry – how he thinks the AI landscape will evolve in the future – and why agencies should be looking to partner with AI experts to help position themselves one step ahead of their clients. But with new tools?

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6 Myths Busted about Working Remotely!

SmartKarrot

The first thing such managers have not realized is that the recent advancements in technology have led to a lot of changes in the work setting. They argue that remote employees cannot physically present and discuss their ideas with their co-workers. Most managers have invested in tools that enable virtual collaboration.