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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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Key Account Manager or Strategic Ecosystem Leader?

Arpedio

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. Denise Freier.

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Ten insights on the future of SAM

Strategic Account Management Association

As conveners of the largest community in the world dedicated to strategic and key account management, one of SAMA’s foundational purposes is to help our community both adapt to what’s happening right now and prepare for what may happen next. Panelists: Jennifer Stanley, Partner, McKinsey & Co.;

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How Aramex’s Young SAM Program Provides Strategic Value and Impact

Strategic Account Management Association

Form an organizational capability around co-creating products and solutions with our customers Redesign our philosophy around our customers’ needs Make a positive business impact on our customers’ operations Ingrain a deeply customer-centric vision and mission for sales. Its mission is to handle defined strategic key accounts.

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Maximizing Customer Retention: The Role of Key Account Management in Customer Success Management

DemandFarm

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. Masterclass by Forrester Principal Analyst Anthony McPartlin: Why companies fail with key account management?

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The Importance of Co-Creating Value with Every Strategic Customer

Account Manager Tips

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. We hear the word "value" all the time.

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How to Identify Key Accounts: A Quick Guide to Getting it Right

Account Manager Tips

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.