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Sales vs. Account Management: What Every Sales Leader Needs to Know

Brooks Group

Understanding the difference between landing new business and managing existing accounts is critical for your sales organizations success. On the surface, sales and account management have similar goals: Build strong relationships with customers and increase profitable revenue.

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5 Obstacles to Successful Key Account Growth

Revegy

Your approach to managing and growing your most strategic accounts impacts your ability to optimize revenue. Why Focus on Key Accounts? Key Accounts are your most profitable, scalable, and tenured clients. Key accounts are hard to win, hard to retain and particularly challenging to grow. 4. Changing Needs.

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

Account Manager Tips

What qualifications do I need to be a key account manager? Key account manager attributes Key account managers are responsible for everything to do with the customer lifecycle. From service delivery to account growth, to customer retention, and everything between. Strategic Account Management.

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Account Growth Strategy: What it is and How to Use it

Arpedio

Understanding Account Growth Strategy In this section, we will take a closer look at the intricacies and purpose of account growth strategy. Understanding how to effectively implement this strategy is crucial for long-term success in maximizing your business growth and revenue.

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15 Reasons Why You Might be a Bad Account Manager

Account Manager Tips

Warwick Brown // Account Manager Tips. Doesn't communicate Key accounts have vast networks of stakeholders (internal and external). And a key account manager is the gateway to all these relationships. Bad key account managers don't prepare. Identify executive stakeholders and assess how they feel about you.

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Why Your Sales Teams Can’t Cross-sell

Openview

A CEB Gartner study completely contradicts what has been conventional wisdom in SaaS, that strong customer service is a critical part of a sales team’s ability to not just retain clients but grow and accelerate account revenue. By working with stakeholders across your organization, this recalibration will lead to more sales and profits.

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Account Planning Tools

ProlifIQ

Account Planning Tools For B2B Sales Teams Is your sales team building plans in slide decks, or spreadsheets, or storing key information about your stakeholders and accounts that isn’t easy to find? Do accounts churn when 1-2 main supporters move on? Do deals crumble when your champions leave?