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What is Key Account Management? Strategy and Tips

Upland

Account planning and effective account management strategies are about much, much more than your key accounts. That said, any account manager worth their salt has a strategy for their key accounts. And it should almost always look different to their strategy for smaller accounts. There are many reasons for this.

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Account Management Guide – Defend and Grow Revenue

Upland

How can effective account management help you defend and grow revenue? Here’s where having a sales account management strategy becomes indispensable. Through account management, your team can seek to establish themselves as trusted advisors to customers. First, a quick primer – what is account management?

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Strategic Account Management Association (SAMA) Formalizes Partnership with The Congruity Group

Strategic Account Management Association

Dayton, OH, April 3, 2023 – The Congruity Group announced today that they have formalized a partnership with the premier association for strategic account management. “We We could not be more excited to partner with SAMA,” said Congruity CEO Betsy Westhafer.

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Book review – Managing Brands

Red Star Kim

This post reviews the core material covered in Managing Brands Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) professional qualification (Level 6 elective New CIM professional marketing qualifications – 2020 (kimtasso.com) ) and the Cambridge Marketing College’s Marketing Manager Apprenticeship – a Level 6 Qualification (kimtasso.com).

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Why B2B Contact and Account Data Management Is Critical to Your ROI

Download this eBook and gain an understanding of the impact of data management on your company’s ROI. Given data’s direct impact on marketing campaigns, reporting, and sales follow-up, maintaining an accurate and consistent database is a top priority for B2B organizations. You'll learn about: The true cost of bad (and good) data.

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Relationship Management Guide – Going Beyond the CRM

Upland

Relationship management in sales is all about delivering value and understanding the people and problems at play within accounts – both from prospective and current customers – in order to help solve their greatest challenges. What is relationship management? Enter the importance of relationship management.

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

Strategic Account Management Association

If you have experienced the pain, humiliation and fear of having to tell your manager that you are not going to hit your “blood number,” your commit for the quarter, then I have news for you: It’s not your fault. To be sure, a sales leader or SAM manager will have responsibilities beyond revenue. The solution.

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Enable Your Teams to Work Their Own Way

Speaker: Kim Wasson, Alexis Barone, and Matt Williams

As a project manager, have you ever felt overextended by all the different teams you're expected to lead? However, this mentality leads Project Managers to lose focus and become easily frustrated. Join us in this panel discussion as Kim Wasson, Matt Williams, and Alexis Barone uncover fresh insights on team management.

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Emotional Intelligence in Leadership

Speaker: Heidi Cerenzia, Edina Murphy, and Alexis Barone, Wrike

Now more than ever, project managers are expected to lead with strong consideration towards their team. With a priority on EQ, project managers create a team that is communicative, engaged, and motivated. Well-informed predictions about the EQ and the future of project management. This is where emotional intelligence comes in.

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Boost Team Engagement with Agile

Speaker: Anthony Crain, Agile Transformation Consultant at cPrime, and Zach Wolfe, Enterprise Customer Success Manager at Wrike

However, as many project managers have discovered, agile can work in non-technical teams as well. But how about managing both? The importance of collaboration when managing agile projects. Agile Methodology has led to an era of transparency and collaboration within software and development teams. The key is engagement.

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Moving From Strategy to Execution

Speaker: Barb Barker and Shannon Riley, Wrike Team

In its simplest state, an organization's Strategic Performance Management context begins with corporate strategies (including objectives) which cascade to business units or equivalent organizational entities (IT), which, in turn, develop aligned strategies. Ways of connecting your projects to overall goals of organization.

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Agility In Digital Marketing Is Table Stakes For Success

Speaker: Megan Sangha and Amit Pande, Wrike Team

Can we easily manage campaigns and collaborate from kickoff to launch? As marketers are consistently pressured to face more unknowns and do more with less, many marketing leaders are sharpening their focus on agility and asking some tough but critical questions: Are we as agile as we should be?

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A New Age of Hybrid Leadership

Speaker: Renee Thomas and Alexis Barone, Wrike Team

It's time for project managers to gain a new understanding of what good leadership looks like in the future of work. What managers can do to enable their teams. Companies can no longer deny the fact that employees can in fact be productive, motivated, and proactive, all while working remotely. How to address employee burnout.

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Pressure Points: How to Ensure Your B2B Pipeline Passes Inspection

This eBook highlights best practices for developing a pipeline management process that helps sales leaders and their team C.L.O.S.E you’ll see what we mean in this eBook) more revenue through data-driven prospecting, stage analysis, and subsequent sales enablement.

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2020 Database Strategies and Contact Acquisition Survey Report

47% of marketers said they have a database management strategy in place, but there is room for significant improvement. As buyer expectations to receive this type of relevant engagement continues to heighten, database management strategies are of high importance.