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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. In the end, if you fail to meet your commitment, you fail to meet your commitment. The solution.

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Turning lemons into lemonade: Five ways to reset on customer management fundamentals in a post-pandemic world

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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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Why are account managers not cross selling and upselling during client meetings?

Account Management Skills

Why do account managers not cross sell and upsell during client meetings? They realised that their front-line account managers weren’t set up for success in this area and/or they needed to upskill their entire team because they didn’t have account managers! How can account managers be more confident?

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Back to the Future: F2F selling is returning, but virtual selling is here to stay

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Just when customer account teams and salespeople were beginning to grow accustomed to virtual-only sales and account management, a return to (some) face-to-face interactions is on the horizon. COVID-19 has accelerated a trend already underway toward increased virtual interactions between customers and their suppliers.

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9 Unexpected Reasons Why Key Account Management is Important

Account Manager Tips

Why is key account management important? Well, i f you don't have key account management in place, you could leave money on the table, be helpless to competitor threats and put your most valuable clients at risk of defection. Key account management is the secret to grow revenue and customer retention. Why should you care?

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Do account managers really know what it takes to run an effective client meeting?

Account Management Skills

Agency owners often tell me their account managers aren’t leading client meetings confidently. You can tune in to this short episode here. Therefore being organised matters. Preparedness matters. Professionalism matters.

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What is Key Account Management? (It’s Not What You Think)

Account Manager Tips

Definition of key account management. If you're not sure what key account management is, don't worry, you're not alone. Before we get to that, let me explain how key account management became a business strategy. Key account managers kept them. Viewed as a supplier of products and services. Burnett, K. Kurzrock, W.