ProlifIQ

APRIL 8, 2021

Create a systematic plan to go after major accounts without dragging out sales cycles and inaccurately forecasting your quarterly pipeline. . Here, we’ll talk about how an account planning strategy can help you shorten your selling cycle and close major deals even faster than before. A higher number of stakeholders.

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ProlifIQ

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

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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ProlifIQ

APRIL 3, 2023

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.

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Upland

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Relationship mapping refers to the process of outlining the inner workings of an organization – the decision makers, influence, and political structure – to ascertain the path of least resistance to building meaningful relationships with stakeholders. What drives the relationship between two important stakeholders?

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ProlifIQ

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The State of Account Planning in 2024 2023 was a challenging year for go-to-market teams. With economic uncertainty, slowing growth, and more scrutiny on every purchase, many teams struggled to close deals and retain accounts. Win rates and customer retention are top metrics, but CRM adoption ranked high with SMBs.

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Upland

APRIL 20, 2023

Sellers can take these lessons and use them to land new, key accounts, but also grow revenue in all accounts. Through a combination of best practices, relationship mapping, and account planning, sellers and account managers can retain their status as trusted advisors, and keep the howling, lone wolves at bay.

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ProlifIQ

APRIL 5, 2023

Account Planning Best Practices Sales account planning is a critical aspect of any business that seeks to manage its customers effectively and generate more revenue. An action plan that outlines the sales account planning process is crucial for any company that wants to succeed.

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Account Manager Tips

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Do this instead: Plan your week around your priorities. Has no plan Which clients need an account plan? Account plans are help you define your key account strategy. Commit to targets Plan activities Coordinate resources Manage risk Get results. Warwick Brown // Account Manager Tips.

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ProlifIQ

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The Myth of Account Planning. Most people relate account planning to something like a quarterly business review (QBR), where sellers and leaders will give an in-depth presentation on the state of their top accounts. Look back at your previous account plans; what actions were taken to successfully close this deal?

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ProlifIQ

JUNE 29, 2020

Financial services and account planning go together like peanut butter and jelly, like bacon and eggs, or like a burger and fries. Here are 8 reasons financial services companies need account planning. . Understanding key stakeholders will help you expand your network with a clear path forward. . Org Charts.

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ProlifIQ

JUNE 29, 2020

Financial services and account planning go together like peanut butter and jelly, like bacon and eggs, or like a burger and fries. Here are 8 reasons financial services companies need account planning. . Understanding key stakeholders will help you expand your network with a clear path forward. . Org Charts.

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Hubspot Sales

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

To others still, it means a key account plan. Many sellers engage in opportunity planning when they pose questions such as: What business problem are you trying to solve for the customer? Who are the stakeholders you need to engage with? What plan of action will keep the relationship healthy and profitable?

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ProlifIQ

APRIL 8, 2021

Create a systematic plan to go after major accounts without dragging out sales cycles and inaccurately forecasting your quarterly pipeline. . Here, we’ll talk about how an account planning strategy can help you shorten your selling cycle and close major deals even faster than before. A higher number of stakeholders.

Account Planning 52

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KAM With Passion

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

A strong KAM initiative is always built on the following 3 Pillars: KAM infrastructure , Key Account Teams and Key Account Plans. Implementing true KAM requires having performing Key Account Teams in addition to the central team chartered to manage the KAM Programme. KEY ACCOUNT PLANS. KAM INFRASTRUCTURE.

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Arpedio

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Welcome to our comprehensive guide on strategic account planning – a vital practice for businesses looking to achieve long-term success and foster strong customer relationships. In today’s competitive landscape, having a well-defined account plan is essential to effectively manage key accounts and drive growth.

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Arpedio

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Welcome to our comprehensive guide on strategic account planning – a vital practice for businesses looking to achieve long-term success and foster strong customer relationships. In today’s competitive landscape, having a well-defined account plan is essential to effectively manage key accounts and drive growth.

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Arpedio

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Define the role of your KAMs or SAMs as leaders in your business SAMA offers a vital community to accelerate KAM programs It’s Strategic Account PlannING, not Account Plan Digital has permanently transformed the KAM role. The mindset shift from account plans to account planning is essential.

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Quip

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Salesforce is the #1 CRM for a reason – it helps your marketing, sales, commerce, service and IT teams work as one from anywhere — so you can keep your customers happy everywhere. But what about really complex processes like – account planning, close plans, and account transitions. Account transitions.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 18, 2019

A key account manager (KAM) is responsible for managing and building a strong relationship with large clients that make up the majority of the business' income. Not only do KAMs find ways to address the client's challenges and opportunities, but they also create and present reports about the client's progress to key stakeholders.

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Account Manager Tips

JULY 28, 2020

Chapters 00:00 Introduction 01:21 Why changing mindset towards account management was the biggest obstacle. 03:53 Why you need to keep account plans simple. 09:03 Account plans are the evidence of the value you create for your clients. 09:49 Should you share account plans with clients?

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Account Manager Tips

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

LinkedIn Sales Navigator makes it simple to stay up-to-date on what's happening with your accounts and identify and connect with important stakeholders and new prospects. Now, your organisation might try to tell you key account managers don't need LinkedIn Sales Navigator - it's a sales tool. Pricing: From $24.

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Arpedio

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Navigating Account-Based Selling: CRM, AI and Customer Understanding Explore the ARPEDIO platform ← Back to blog When it comes to B2B sales, companies often find themselves wrestling with a myriad of challenges, from a lack of prospecting skills to navigating lengthy sales cycles. AI is about trust.

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Revegy

JULY 17, 2018

Are your account plans helping your teams meet their quotas or are they missing the mark? Without comprehensive, well thought out account plans, companies are missing out on major revenue opportunities and risk losing some of their largest clients. 1) Figure Out Who Matters with Relationship Maps.

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ProlifIQ

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Personalize Engagements : Tailor your interactions and offerings to each key account’s specific needs and preferences, leveraging the comprehensive data and insights provided by KAM technology. Interested in seeing a Key Account Management solution to help you retain and grow key customers?

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Upland

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

At this phase, places as accessible as company websites and LinkedIn feeds are your friends, as well as data captured in your CRM. And as we’ll see in the coming chapter, mastering relationships is what will take your account planning to the next level. Who do they sell to? Why are they successful?

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SBI

JULY 1, 2020

Organizations that understand the true value of account planning, identify untapped revenue potential while delivering strategic customer value. To uncover hidden revenue in your key accounts, focus on these 5 strategies that great companies get right. Collaborate Beyond Sales.

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ProlifIQ

JUNE 12, 2024

Stakeholders: Understanding “who is who” and the footprint of an account. This will determine how you leverage your team for communication with different stakeholders across the organization. Planning in Key Account Management Grab our template on account planning! Also, areas for quick wins!

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Clarity Engagement Solutions

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Tailored by vertical industry and 100% native to Salesforce Lightning, CX1™ makes it easy for sales and account teams to map stakeholder relationships, identify the sources of decision-making influence and manage a larger number of better-qualifed opportunities as a result. That’s where Clarity CX1™ comes in. Longer sales cycles. •

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Brooks Group

JANUARY 9, 2025

Account management training should emphasize the following skills: Relationship building and maintenance: Cultivate strong, long-term connections with key stakeholders through consistent communication and value delivery. Project management: Orchestrate multiple initiatives and stakeholders to ensure successful solution implementation.

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ProlifIQ

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Because a standard customer success team is trained to look at managing their accounts, or account planning , as a quarterly activity, they are therefore less likely to look at account planning as a daily, ongoing, activity. Leverage your CRM for account planning instead of opting for long QBR sessions.

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Account Manager Tips

JULY 9, 2020

That way you won't miss any important requirements in your 90 day plan and ensure you use the right terminology rather than generic objectives and results. For example don't say "meet with key stakeholders" when the job description has identified who those stakeholders are and you can say "meet with Product Management and Technical" instead.

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Account Manager Tips

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

For example, my CRM ( Salesmate ) has sequences and email templates that allow me to setup set up a personalized conversational flow. Share the load You don't have to be the only one in your organization communicating with key stakeholders. Centralise all your client communication, account plans and related activities in one place.

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DemandFarm

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

By strengthening these relationships, account management teams directly impact retention and reduce churn, transforming client satisfaction into a growth strategy. Core Traits of High-Performing Account Managers 1.Relationship Relationship Intelligence and Stakeholder Knowledge The best account managers know business is personal.

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ProlifIQ

APRIL 21, 2023

Account Planning Growth Strategy For businesses looking to grow their revenue and achieve their goals, an effective account growth strategy is essential. This strategy involves developing a comprehensive plan to manage and grow the customer accounts that are critical to the business’s success.

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ProlifIQ

JULY 31, 2024

Work through your internal champions to meet additional stakeholders. A good template and cross-sell process clearly lays out which products or services are being used by who, and which stakeholders need to be engaged to create additional opportunities.

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Arpedio

APRIL 3, 2023

Sector Computer Software Website www.eagleeye.com Solutions used ARPEDIO Account Management & Relationship Mapping ← Back to case studies The Challenges Eagle Eye faced challenges with low adoption, duplicate work, neglected tasks, and critical information scattered all over the place – all due to tools and data that lived outside their CRM.

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ProlifIQ

MARCH 19, 2021

First, you need to understand the process and how to use this tool within an overall sales account plan. Think of the deal that landed you the enterprise account. As you plug new contacts and new data into your Salesforce CRM, you’ll start to notice an interesting trend. How did it come about?

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