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9 Unexpected Reasons Why Key Account Management is Important

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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.

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What Are the 12 Tenets of Key Account Management & Why You Need to Know?

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Phil is an account management and sales professional professional with a wealth of experience and wisdom he's distilled into The Tenets of Account Management. These guiding principles have served Phil well and I know they will help you find success as a key account manager. The Tenets of Account Management.

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Why Start a (True) Key Account Management Initiative?

KAM With Passion

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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The Secrets of Successful Key Account Management Teams with Laura Cuello

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Is your business and your key account management team growing fast? Do you feel like you're always playing catch-up and never have time for important projects, like developing processes that drive business growth or creating career paths for your key account managers? Click to Tweet. Laura: It's never boring.

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Top 5 Account Management Best Practices to Drive Real Customer Centricity

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SiriusDecisions defines account-based models , or account management, as representations of a strategic approach that align resources against a set of defined accounts and goals in a way that is relevant and valuable to those accounts and to sales/partners. Global Account Management.

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Account Management and Application Integration

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The next aspect of account management we need to consider–one that is vitally important–is application integration. Integration Tied Into Account Management. Let’s take a look at how application integration affects account management. Otherwise, account management isn’t really possible.

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5 Ways Account Management Drives Customer Centricity

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SiriusDecisions defines account-based models , or account management, as representations of a strategic approach that align resources against a set of defined accounts and goals in a way that is relevant and valuable to those accounts and to sales/partners. Global Account Management.