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How Aramex’s Young SAM Program Provides Strategic Value and Impact

Strategic Account Management Association

Form an organizational capability around co-creating products and solutions with our customers Redesign our philosophy around our customers’ needs Make a positive business impact on our customers’ operations Ingrain a deeply customer-centric vision and mission for sales. Gross profit: The goal is to improve performance year over year.

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

Strategic Account Management Association

Customer-buying behaviors have also reshaped Amazon and other retailers in delivering everyday goods. The global COE can also help foster the creation of communities of practice to exchange best practices and scale them. In general, engagement models have been shattered.

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What Happens When the Unfiltered Truth Emerges

The Congruity Group

Excerpt from “The Rarest Advantage – How to Co-Create Strategic Value to Retain and Expand Your Key Customer Accounts” by Betsy Westhafer and Tony Bodoh. This highly visible retailer on a high-growth trajectory had already been in conversations with our client’s competitors. With regard to this customer, life was not good at all.

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Entrepreneurial Excellence Awarded by Winsupply, Inc. to Betsy Westhafer

The Congruity Group

Excerpt from “The Rarest Advantage – How to Co-Create Strategic Value to Retain and Expand Your Key Customer Accounts” by Betsy Westhafer and Tony Bodoh. This highly visible retailer on a high-growth trajectory had already been in conversations with our client’s competitors. With regard to this customer, life was not good at all.

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What customer first really means

Zendesk

Instead of designing the customer journey around product creation and delivery, they organized around improving the experience for the customer. Consider Japanese retailer Uniqlo, which reported increased revenue and profit in 2021. They disrupted entire industries based on understanding their customer and their needs.

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The Three Levels of Listening to Customers

The Congruity Group

Their answers will depend in part on: their role in the organization the KPIs that matter to their success their time horizon of reference their level of authority to resolve an issue Those who deal with transactions, like a retail clerk or customer service agent, will focus on the present and the specific customer in the story.

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What is channel sales? Sales channel strategy and guide

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Independent retailers: An independent business not tied to a parent company. Dealers: Retailers who specialize in one specific type of product. Consultants: Consultants manage the creation and productivity of different sales channels and are paid by the parent company. Co-invest in sales reps with your partner.