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Want to Accelerate Your SAM Journey? Create a Center of Excellence

Strategic Account Management Association

Organizations are already planning for this new- or next-normal hybrid model and have worked hard to elevate the needed skill sets of their commercial teams – especially strategic account managers. This is leading many companies to accelerate their strategic account management journeys and transformations.

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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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The Challenge of Selling Expertise (Not Product)

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An interview with Michael Thomas by Harvey Dunham, Managing Director of Business Development at SAMA. He also spent years as a managing consultant for Microsoft’s global consulting organization. First, there is how SAMs communicate, articulate and exchange their expertise based on their sales and professional experience.

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“LIQUIDITY,” ORGANIZATIONAL RESILIENCE AND YOU

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To give a couple of examples: Among department stores, Nordstrom has demonstrated resilience by dramatically increasing online sales; as a result, they have excelled. This is because the matrix organization’s complex structure makes rapid strategic and tactical decision making very difficult. Find him online at [link].

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The Importance of Change Management in Account Planning

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Sales leaders often find that commitment to change is the single most important ingredient in a successful account planning practice. A lthough change can be scary, difficult and potentially costly if not managed correctly, it is ultimately the key to achieving higher win rates, championing large buying groups, and growing revenue.

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Using Multi-Factor Analysis to Maximize Sales Performance Improvement

Mike Kunkle

In this article, I want to talk about using multi-factor analysis to maximize your sales performance improvement. The reason you’d do this is because there is rarely one right answer, or one performance lever to pull, that will deliver the maximum performance improvement with a sales force.

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How to Measure the ROI of Your Sales Enablement Program

Mike Kunkle

In this post, I will offer advice about how to measure the ROI of your sales enablement program. I do have a video on this topic, from my newsletter, Sales Enablement Straight Talk , as an additional resource. This is why Buyer Acumen is the first block in the Building Blocks of Sales Enablement framework.

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