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Strategic account managers (and their bosses) deserve better decision-making tools

Strategic Account Management Association

And yet several trends are converging to make decisions over deployment or resources more difficult. Only around 60 percent of account managers are making quota, per HBR. If you’re a SAM and want to quickly lose credibility, just go into your CRM and add up all the factored opportunities and submit that as your “Commit.”

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Break & Glue: The art of capturing complex mega-strategic accounts in CRM to get the most from account planning tools 

Strategic Account Management Association

A while ago, I came across a discussion about the optimal way to capture strategic customers in a customer relationship management (CRM) tool in a way that enables effective, efficient account planning using account planning applications or tools. Options for capturing your complex mega-strategic account in CRM.

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Intuition vs. data-driven decision making in business today

Insightly

Data-driven decision making is the process of studying large amounts of data, analyzing it to identify patterns, obtaining actionable insights, and using that insight to make business decisions. When marketers make data-based decisions, they can see what’s not working and double-down on what is.

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Relationship Management Guide – Going Beyond the CRM

Upland

As you will see, this goes well beyond the data collected in the CRM system, and often warrants additional, specialized technology, like relationship mapping tools , married to world-class sales methodologies and best practices, ideally integrated and 100% native to your CRM solution.

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QuickBooks or a CRM? Why SMBs need to consider both

Customer Think

Integrating a customer relationship management (CRM) system with QuickBooks, an accounting solution, can greatly benefit small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). QuickBooks CRM integration help businesses make more informed decisions and gain a deeper understanding of […]

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Make smarter decisions using business intelligence

Insightly

The days of using intuition over data to make business decisions are mostly gone. With the availability and affordability of tools like the modern CRM , the measurement of many metrics is automated. However, certain metrics provide significant insight into business health and drive the smartest growth decisions.

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Make smarter decisions using business intelligence

Insightly

The days of using intuition over data to make business decisions are mostly gone. With the availability and affordability of tools like the modern CRM , the measurement of many metrics is automated. However, certain metrics provide significant insight into business health and drive the smartest growth decisions.