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Get More New Meetings — Developing a Valid Business Reason

The Center for Sales Strategy

"4 out of 5 Sales Managers admit appointments, whether in-person or virtual, are more challenging to secure than five years ago.". My initial response to this new data was.DUH! I'd like to speak with the one manager who thinks getting a first time appointment is "easier" than 5-years ago.

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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

It is one of the most optimistic cliches known to man – and with good reason. 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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People & Problems: The core of strategic account planning

Strategic Account Management Association

This gives me insight into the state of enterprise sales organizations outside my own, lending me a bird’s eye view into the ways that revenue teams are embracing the current state and accelerating the digital transformations that have become all the more urgent for every one of us over the last two years. Developing a relationship strategy.

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Know Your Customer to Driving Growth and Revenue in Key Accounts

Upland

The product or service you’re selling is the method or tool they will use to get there. They aren’t buying just to buy. They’re on a mission to solve a problem, fill a gap, or capitalize on an opportunity. Before you strategize how you’re going to sell, therefore, you have to understand the organization you’re selling to.

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How to Resize and Retool Your Sales Force

Mike Kunkle

Now, facing a blossoming recession, we’re hearing of layoffs, downsizing, cost-cutting, and new hires being told their positions have vaporized. People should always come first, but for this post, from your company’s perspective, let’s start with the business stuff. This is a post I never wanted to write. Strategy First.

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Book review: How to do the work (recognise your patterns, heal from your past and create your self) by Dr Nicole LePera

Red Star Kim

New theory of trauma Starting with a story of a woman who hates her belly fat, the author explains how we can experience a state of dissociation – a coping mechanism of physical and mental disconnection from our environment in response to consistent stress or overwhelm. Part of a psychotherapist’s toolbox is psychoeducation.

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6 Ways To Turn Around a Client That Doesn’t Like You

Account Manager Tips

5 reasons you shouldn't apologize to your clients How to say sorry without saying sorry How to say sorry and mean it Worth a click Quote of the week. I love to see organizations recognize that key account management can be the growth engine of their business and invest in their team. When you can't meet a deadline. CLICK HERE.