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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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Back to the Future: F2F selling is returning, but virtual selling is here to stay

Strategic Account Management Association

Just when customer account teams and salespeople were beginning to grow accustomed to virtual-only sales and account management, a return to (some) face-to-face interactions is on the horizon. Jonathan Hughes, Partner, Vantage Partners, and David Chapnick, Partner, Vantage Partners. These mixed results are not surprising.

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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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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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An Introduction to Enterprise Sales for Key Account Managers

DemandFarm

A multinational software company might spend nearly a year negotiating a $5 million deal with a Fortune 500 company. This process involves multiple product demonstrations, engaging with IT, procurement, and finance stakeholders, and significant customization to meet the client’s needs. What is Enterprise Sales?

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People & Problems: The core of strategic account planning

Strategic Account Management Association

By Richard Scheig, Chief Revenue Officer, Upland Software. The view from where I sit as Upland Software’s Chief Revenue Officer is a profoundly interesting one. By rallying revenue teams around people and their problems, we can build a motion that truly centers on the customer and that benefits all stakeholders in the process.

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How to Scale Account Management for Business Growth with Calin Muresan

Account Manager Tips

Which means as an account manager, you’ve got to rely on instincts (and maybe a little prayer). You can’t run an account management team like that, let alone a business. I’m excited to share my conversation with Calin Muresan , Existing Business Manager, at Netguru. 03:34 The best thing about account management.