Strategic Account Management Association

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The idea of executive engagement implies an accountable and engaged member of the account team, rather than a distant back-room player. Strategic account management is a team sport and requires cross-functional, multi-tiered vertical level engagement and strong accountability.

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Strategic Account Management Association

JANUARY 25, 2022

Pfizer is the winner of the 2021 SAMA Excellence Award for “Innovative Value Co-Creation.” By Emily Williams, Strategic Account Manager , Pfizer. Many patients could be eligible for effective outpatient management. Stakeholder management. How the project became a reality. Making the business case.

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Strategic Account Management Association

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Seven key drivers of strategic account management to helps SAMs leverage customer insights and co-create value in the face of industry disruptions. The post The Essential Seven Factors for Unlocking Strategic Account Growth appeared first on Strategic Account Management Association.

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Strategic Account Management Association

JANUARY 3, 2023

The ever-shifting landscape of the digital economy has created a new demand for solutions to emerging problems, representing both a threat and opportunity for strategic account managers. The post Understanding the Hidden Needs of Key Accounts for Sustained Growth appeared first on Strategic Account Management Association.

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Strategic Account Management Association

APRIL 22, 2021

By Neil Tumber , Relationship Manager , Advanced Services Grou. Advanced services are propositions, where the provider (for example, a manufacturer) engages in an in-depth customer interaction with an extensive capability integration in a process of co-creation that creates a service to deliver functional value to that customer.

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Strategic Account Management Association

AUGUST 26, 2024

The first step in next-gen, customer-centric sales By Dominique Côté, CEO & Founder, Cosawi and Principal, The Summit Group, and Kate Burda, CEO & Founder, Kate Burda & Co.

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Strategic Account Management Association

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

appeared first on Strategic Account Management Association. LP Building Solutions, SAMA Excellence Award winner for Outstanding Young Program of 2023, outlines its blueprint for SAM success. The post What’s In A Name? Turns Out — Everything!

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Strategic Account Management Association

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The post How to Make Strategic Customer Engagement a Top Competitive Advantage in 2024 appeared first on Strategic Account Management Association. The Congruity Group leads a webinar to help revolutionize your approach to customer engagement and create a lasting impact on your company’s growth.

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KAM With Passion

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Polarized attitudes towards Key Account Management. True Key Account Management (KAM) or Strategic Account Management (SAM) remains a topic that polarizes the thinking and behaviours of business leaders. Key Account Management, what is it really?

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Account Manager Tips

MARCH 23, 2021

You're sitting on a goldmine of existing customers that: can deliver an above-average revenue growth; want to invest in your partnership; will co-create value in ways that neither of you could do alone. Portrait Software became a key account, and within 18 months, that partnership led to winning the larger Pitney Bowes business.

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Arpedio

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Key Account Manager or Strategic Ecosystem Leader? Key Account Manager or Strategic Ecosystem Leader? ? On September 15th, more than eighty Key Account Managers (KAM) assembled in Copenhagen and online for a hybrid event. October 11, 2021. October 11, 2021. Back to blog. The KAM role continues to evolve.

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Red Star Kim

JUNE 15, 2023

At the start of June I had the pleasure of leading PM Forum ’s “Towards KAM (and ABM) – Helping fee-earners with client relationship management” online workshop. Delegates were from legal and accountancy firms in the UK, Channel Islands, Germany and United Arab Emirates. How should firms identify their strategic accounts?

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Account Management Skills

AUGUST 24, 2021

In this episode, I talk to Alex Raymond from Kapta about everything to do with account management processes. Not project management systems, not CRM systems, but having a dedicated system to guide the agency account management team, when it comes to managing and delve developing existing client relationships.

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Upland

JUNE 30, 2023

Co-Customer Selling: Enterprise selling has been changing. In the future customers will actively participating in the co-creation process. Few B2B enterprise teams present predefined solutions. Up until now, collaboration has come in the form of sellers helping mentors and supporters build business cases.

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Account Manager Tips

JULY 6, 2022

20 ways to encourage value co-creation with your customers Favourite collaboration app Listener tip In other news Quote of the week. And what if we take it one step further and ask what it means to "co-create value" with our customers? Which is why co-creation is so powerful. Don’t waste time on the wrong accounts.

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KAM With Passion

OCTOBER 27, 2020

First, truly complex sales , those where many stakeholders are involved with often contradictory expectations, where the proposed solution is co-constructed with the prospective customer. Second, Account Management , i.e. the management of existing customers. Why does it matter? Why does it matter? Why does it matter?

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DemandFarm

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Do you know how the top key account managers (KAMs) become the top KAMs? They don’t just respond to an account’s needs—they anticipate them, creating proactive strategies that build trust and deepen relationships. Key Focus Areas for High-Impact Account Management Teams 1.

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KAM With Passion

JUNE 20, 2021

This article focuses on individual competencies, especially those of the Key Account Managers. It provides you with a precise description of the skills and competencies required from a true Key Account Manager (not a plain entreprise customers sales rep). Defining Skills & Competencies.

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KAM With Passion

MARCH 17, 2022

Once this organisation will have progressed enough on complex sales and on basic account management, it be in a much stronger position to enhance and expand its KAM intiative. Managing customers well requires 3 complementary capabilities. Account Management & Delivery. Key Account Management.

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Arpedio

JANUARY 25, 2023

Successful Strategic Account Management ← Back to blog There’s no doubt about it: Strategic Account Management is the key to success in today's competitive market. But you need the right tools and processes to unlock the power of Strategic Account Management before you can watch your business soar.

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 7, 2019

Are you a B2B account manager or sales executive who is serious about account-based sales or account-based marketing (ABM)? To win new business and grow key accounts, account managers and sales executives must become thoroughly invested in their customer’s challenges, goals, and competitive landscape.

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DemandFarm

AUGUST 31, 2023

In the business world, customer success management is no longer an afterthought; it’s a necessity. Success lies in a tailored, strategic approach to customer success management. One that leverages Key Account Management (KAM) principles to retain customers and transform them into brand advocates.

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Account Management Skills

APRIL 8, 2024

“People who accomplish big things did small things well” Horace Jackson Brown, author of ‘Life’s Little Instruction Book’ There are little things account managers can do well to avoid big client complaints. What else can account managers do to prevent difficult client conversations?

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Mike Kunkle

MAY 11, 2022

Includes territory planning, account planning, sales call planning, leading sales meetings, task management, using CRM, sales enablement tools, other technology tools and performance support, action planning, calendaring, project management, change management, and personal productivity practices. Value Creation.

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Account Management Skills

JUNE 15, 2021

We talked about: why it’s so important for an agency account manager to have have that important skill of writing briefs. Now, it’s a really fundamental part of an account manager’s role is to write a really good brief. I think this, particularly for the agency, account manager community is key.

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Arpedio

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Enter draw #1 Account-Based Selling Platform Treat your colleagues to an early Christmas present Relationship Mapping & Org Chart Improve your critical stakeholder relationships. Learn more Account Management Powerful account planning in Salesforce.

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DemandFarm

JUNE 6, 2024

The truism “creating value for your customers will eventually create revenue for your company” perhaps rings loudest in the targeted, relationship-heavy, high-value space of account-based selling. Unrelenting, obsessive, customer-centricity.

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Revegy

MAY 14, 2018

The Strategic Cost of Key Accounts. Customers expect value co-creation. The process of value creation requires multiple functions to get involved and engaged, with accountability and deliverables clearly defined for all players in the account planning stage. The Operational Cost of Key Accounts.

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Cosawi

JANUARY 29, 2024

In our more traditional groups, marketing, and sales work in locked steps but it seems that the shift to strategic account management is often missing marketing when time comes to establish its roadmap. At Thales, this transformation began with the creation of a distinct role – account marketing.

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QYMATIX

OCTOBER 19, 2021

How will artificial intelligence redefine sales management? Sales managers had to type on a typewriter (1870 – 1980 (?)) Key Account Managers had to prepare a visit to a potential client thoroughly. Key Account Managers can now call clients in seconds – even to meet them virtually thanks to video and webinars.

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Arpedio

JUNE 1, 2023

Key Takeaways From SAMA 2023 Annual Conference ← Back to blog Once again, The Strategic Account Management Association (SAMA) brought together sales and strategic account management professionals from around the globe for their annual conference. 75% of companies think they are customer-centric.

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Cosawi

JULY 14, 2021

We talk to Dominque Côté about the central role of marketing in Key Account Management (KAM). Along with the Key Account Manager, marketing is the co-orchestrator of KAM – they are intrinsically linked. CO-ORCHESTRATION AND CO-CREATION . It takes two to tango .

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KAMCast

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

In this episode… In a world where the vast majority of internet traffic is video content, how can we leverage the creation, production and value of video to maximise sales return? In this episode I’ll talk to video marketer Ed Lawrence, the co-founder of , a video production and editing business based in Hertfordshire, UK.

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Farland Group

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Q: Can you tell us about account-based growth versus account-based marketing and how you might advise people to consider that in their program? A: “It is the idea behind the business; I have two co-founders, Louise Jefferson and Tim Shercliff. In sales, we’ve seen account management—putting senior people on your top customers.

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Arpedio

OCTOBER 30, 2023

In this episode, Lee interviews Ulrik Monberg , Founder and CEO of ARPEDIO, to explore the keys to success in Account-Based Selling. From CRM to Strategic Account Planning The role of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) tools has witnessed a significant transformation over the past decade. Listen to the podcast here.

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Arpedio

MARCH 7, 2022

For key or strategic accounts, does it matter if marketing works with sales? Account-based marketing (ABM) revolutionized marketing. So, why do so many strategic/key account management (SAM/KAM) programs not integrate with ABM? To summarize, sales and marketing need to co-orchestrate the account plan.

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Revegy

MAY 17, 2018

Your Key Account Management (KAM) platform should provide a competitive advantage. The right solution will clearly demonstrate how you can co-create and plan jointly with key accounts, how you can track their strategic goals, plug gaps and grow together. But not all KAM enablement platforms are the same.

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