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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. 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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21 Free Courses for Key Account Managers to Boost Your Skills Now

Account Manager Tips

21 free courses for key account managers to boost your skills now A key account manager has to grow and retain their clients. Find out what those skills are, along with 21 free courses to help you become a better key account manager. Leadership 7. Need more help to improve your key account management skills?

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Achieve more engagement and buy-in: Relationships, Plan, Expectations, Benefits, Persuasion and Training

Red Star Kim

At the recent Training – PM Forum on “ Buy-in, engagement and stakeholder management ” workshop we welcomed executive and manager delegates from legal and accountancy firms as well as a delegate from Poland. Manage expectations Clarity about what we hope to achieve will help to manage expectations.

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What is Alliance Management?

Peter Simoons

During a recent conversation, I was asked what Alliance Management is. Later on, looking at my own website I learned, to my surprise, that in the 13 years of writing this column I have written about many aspects of Alliance Management, but never about the basic question of, “What is Alliance Management?”

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Be more strategic: Top-down or bottom-up, marketing and sales integration and property marketing

Red Star Kim

But in essence it is about whether strategy is developed by a centralised leadership team or by those running the business units or divisions. In practice, there is usually an iterative process where top-down and bottom-up strategies are negotiated and aligned. Some think about a centralised or decentralised approach to strategy.

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What Makes a Good Alliance Manager??

Peter Simoons

“What makes a good alliance manager?” Organisations therefore perceive the role of alliance management differently to each other. Often I explain alliance management by comparing it to being a conductor in an orchestra. Similarly, an alliance manager needs to unify the alliance partners and their team members.

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How to build a winning account management team

Arpedio

How to build a winning account management team Account Management Software ← Back to blog A winning account management team can be your secret weapon to supercharge your company’s growth and customer satisfaction. But how do you assemble, nurture, and lead a high-performing account management team?