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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. Sales maps for key accounts tend to be quite complex with many stakeholders.

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8 Key Account Management Skills in Demand Right Now

Account Manager Tips

What skills do key account managers need? Key account management is a profession in demand. Key Account Managers are in demand by companies now more than ever. Enterprise Account Executive #6. Customer Success Manager #7. All this talk about the digital economy. I sure was. But fear not.

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3 Best Sales Podcasts for Key Account Managers

Account Manager Tips

The best sales podcasts key account managers should listen to Are you a key account manager? Why selling is hard for key account managers Key Account Managers are busy making sure clients get the best from what they've already bought. Do you sell? Do you listen to podcasts? What's left to sell?

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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. Need more help to improve your key account management skills?

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B2B Book Club Selection (November 2022)

Account Manager Tips

Every month I share a selection of popular titles to help with your professional development as a key account manager. Here are the book recommendations for November 2022. Why this book? Seeing What Others Don't: The Remarkable Ways We Gain Insights Why this book? Why this book? Why this book?

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15 Reasons Why You Might be a Bad Account Manager

Account Manager Tips

15 Reasons Why You Might be a Bad Account Manager Bad key account managers fail to build business relationships and achieve results. Here are fifteen signs you might be a bad key account manager and how to turn yourself into a good one. Account plans are help you define your key account strategy.

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The Future of SAM – Revisited

Strategic Account Management Association

From all this, we stress tested long-held views about strategic account management. Karen Passmore is Partner at the management consulting firm McKinsey and Company where she works on organizational design and go-to-market strategies with a focus on breaking down organizational silos. Adjust notion of stakeholder value.