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Salesforce Account Plans In 2025

ProlifIQ

Salesforce Account Plans – Using Your CRM To Drive Strategy Salesforce account plans are a powerful feature within the Salesforce ecosystem, designed to streamline and enhance strategic account planning for B2B sales and account management professionals.

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AI in Account Planning & Opportunity Management

ProlifIQ

Let’s talk about how to use AI in account planning. Also include any recent leadership changes, acquisitions, or other significant events. Your account plan is going to be on the right foot. Everyone youre competing against will be using Ai in account planning soon, if they aren’t already.

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Pre-sale Planning: Account Planning Use Cases

ProlifIQ

Pre-sale Planning: A Smarter Approach Account plans are often seen as time-consuming, cumbersome, and less valuable than other activities sales and business development teams could be focusing on. Static Account Plans Standardize processes with templates tailored to customer segments.

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The Vital Importance of Account Planning

SalesPop

I recently discovered through research just how much of an impact real account planning can have on company success. 93 percent of all world-class sales organizations have long-term objectives with regard to their key accounts. In businesses as a whole, though, over 60 percent do not even engage in account planning.

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

Brooks Group

Establish Clear Metrics Account management KPIs should include retention rates, account growth, and customer satisfaction. New sales metrics should track pipeline velocity, conversion rates, and new logo acquisition. For new sales, incentivize new logo acquisition and deal closure.

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Account-Based Selling – What it is and Why it Matters 

Upland

The odds of surface-level account information being enough to sway an entire buying committee are slim if not impossible. This is where account planning comes in. And it starts at the account plan. Through doing this, they can build a holistic view of the opportunity at hand.

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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? One key account planning tool is multi-threading.