Strategic Account Management Association

JULY 13, 2021

Disruption Leads to Innovation. Disruption, although most times unwelcome, gives way to innovation. Could the mother of creativity and innovation, in fact, be disruption? Companies are seeking interactions with customers that bring them new insight, knowledge, ideas and innovations.

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Strategic Account Management Association

AUGUST 10, 2021

The most common MBOs for SAMs measure leading indicators : account planning (77% of plans) and activity-based metrics like collaborative meetings (75%). Look for ways to drive people to innovate and demonstrate excellence. These are followed by goal attainment, growth and sustenance, and business expansion.

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ProlifIQ

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Account Plans Start With Good Research 2025 is here, and new territories and accounts are being handed out. One critical component of B2B selling is account planning. This ensures a broader perspective and helps devise a more effective account planning strategy.

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Cosawi

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Unlocking the SAM Journey Through Center of Excellence, Executive Engagement, & ABM Mastery By Dominique Côté Owner and Founder, Cosawi Disruption continues to drive innovation across industries, reshaping how businesses engage with customers. Key Takeaways • ABM must go beyond product promotion, focusing on customer needs and journey.

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Upland

AUGUST 9, 2023

Although account planning software and insight mapping technology can help your team uncover things hidden within an account, that information must be verified with the customer themselves. However, in the context of business, innovation is also necessary. A successful partnership is built on five key components.

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ProlifIQ

MAY 14, 2021

If you incorporate an innovative, account planning strategy into your routine, your chances of success go up tremendously. Let’s cover some of the approaches top sales teams take when taking on high-value accounts. First, Understand the Essentials of a Strong Account Planning Strategy.

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Upland

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The Four Most Important Best Practices Inspired by Sales Leaders Nigel outlines four key areas businesses need to focus on to excel at account planning. First and foremost, Nigel highlights the importance of knowing who your key buyers are, and deeply understanding them. It’s unclear how companies will bring on AI.

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Account Manager Tips

MARCH 23, 2021

Innovation. Evaluate the clients' priorities and requirements to create solutions that increase account switching costs. Launch, implement and monitor account plans that speed up business results and client satisfaction. If a client no longer meets the criteria for key accounts, what will you do with them?

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ProlifIQ

JANUARY 18, 2022

Let’s cover some of the approaches top sales teams take when taking on high-value accounts. . First, Here’s Why You Shouldn’t Sell Without a Key Account Plan. To provide context, we need to quickly go over why key account plans are vital – and how no top-performing sales org leaves home without them.

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ProlifIQ

MAY 14, 2021

If you incorporate an innovative, account planning strategy into your routine, your chances of success go up tremendously. Let’s cover some of the approaches top sales teams take when taking on high-value accounts. First, Understand the Essentials of a Strong Account Planning Strategy.

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Upland

JANUARY 26, 2023

Technological innovations, digitalization and workstyle evolutions that were being signaled years ago have today come to fruition. 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.

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Upland

AUGUST 18, 2023

Take it from us – we know San Francisco well – we’ll give you the insider’s perspective on the city, what’s nearby the event, and some unique opportunities to explore the latest and greatest innovations from Upland Altify. Where is Dreamforce 2023 Being Held? Dreamforce 2023 will be held in the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA.

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Flevy

JULY 1, 2024

In an industry where the basis of competition becomes efficiency versus innovation and new solutions, disruption is just around the horizon. It engages stakeholders in assessing project performance and outcomes, promoting transparency and accountability. Planning Cells. In the end, an action plan is developed.

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SalesGlobe

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

When I hear the words “strategic account planning” in a meeting, I usually notice a range of involuntary visceral reactions, from understated moans to eye-rolls and furrowed brows. Nobody thinks of account planning as aspirational. Aspirational account planning revolves around how you think about and with the customer.

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Arpedio

AUGUST 24, 2022

Account Planning: Manage Long-Term Account Development. Account Planning: Manage Long-Term Account Development. ? What Is Account Planning? Strategic Account Planning. What Should a Key Account Plan Include? How to Do Account Planning? Back to blog.

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Account Manager Tips

MARCH 23, 2021

Culture of innovation. How innovative is your customer? It's exciting stuff with unlimited potential and the reason why you should look beyond volume to identify key accounts to create long-term business growth. I would add that your strategy for resourcing and working with a key account can be different.

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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

MARCH 5, 2025

This new marketplace is set to revolutionize the $6 trillion digital labor market by providing businesses and developers with prebuilt AI agent components that accelerate productivity and innovation. We are thrilled to be part of AgentExchange and contribute to this innovative ecosystem, said Ulrik Monberg , Founder & CEO at ARPEDIO.

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KAM With Passion

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Are you in charge of a true Key Account Management initiative? By “true”, KAM initiative, I mean a programme that aiming at accelerating innovation and growth with a few carefully selected customers. A strong KAM initiative is always built on the following 3 Pillars: KAM infrastructure , Key Account Teams and Key Account Plans.

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Arpedio

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

With over 12,000 employees across 30+ countries, the company is committed to innovation and sustainability. Prev Previous Client Case How National Express Accelerated Marketing An ABM/ABS Success Story #1 Account-Based Selling Platform Powerful alone. Learn more Account Management Build powerful account plans in Salesforce.

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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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Revegy

MARCH 5, 2025

These enhancements have been thoughtfully designed to improve workflow efficiency, streamline sales account planning, and provide actionable insights that transform your sales outcomes. Revegy is thrilled to share with our users the latest round of updates to our Revenue enablement platform.

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Account Manager Tips

JULY 6, 2022

Knowledge sharing and openness to generate innovative collaboration Knowledge as socially generated, maintained, and shared in peer-to-peer communities. You need a long term planning horizon for co-creation. And to stay on track, you need account planning and coordination processes in place. Clarify roles and tasks.

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DemandFarm

OCTOBER 15, 2024

It depends on your Key Account Management (KAM) maturity level, your approach to your KAM program, your goals, and how you want to roll with the AI punches. Account planning , as you’re aware, is a mixed bag of strategic and operational activities. Truthfully, there isn’t a simple yes or no answer. That’s not all.

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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. Improve reliability, scalability or innovation.

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SalesPop

MAY 7, 2021

We’ve thoroughly covered many factors of account planning, such as setting goals and targets. But at the end of the day, account planning naturally evolves into creating a project, which falls into the realm of project management. the innovator. A project is primarily made up of objectives. a technical expert.

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The Chapman Group

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Collaborate with “Team Members” and integrate appropriate “action items” based on survey data into strategic account plan. Close the loop” with account by including appropriate survey data analysis in ongoing “Collaborative Action Planning” with account. Account surveying (Voice of Customer); loyalty indexing.

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KAM With Passion

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

On a Key Account, the Quarterly Business Review is a key instrument to implement the Account Strategy and the associated Account Plan. Business Reviews in a Key Account Management context. KAM is a strategic initiative which comes on top of plain Account Management.

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KAM With Passion

OCTOBER 7, 2020

The CSO Insight 2018-2019 Sales Performance Report highlighted Account Management as a major missed opportunity for most B2B companies and showed that only 35% of sales executive believe Account Planning is a strength of their organisation. Key Account Management: A strategic choice and an act of faith.

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Quip

OCTOBER 20, 2020

It’s been a lively year of learning and innovation as so many adapt to working from anywhere. To help, we’ve developed new Quip for Customer 360 features aimed at transforming business processes within the Salesforce platform.

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Arpedio

JANUARY 22, 2025

By integrating with platforms like Salesforce, ARPEDIO can further enhance the following aspects of sales operations: Data enrichment : ARPEDIO can leverage the enriched data to provide a more detailed view of accounts, enabling sales teams to tailor their approaches effectively.

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KAM With Passion

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

For all organisations, large or small, who take it seriously, practicing KAM is about developing deep and strong relationships with truly strategic customers in order to accelerate innovation and growth. As stated earlier, boosting innovation has become a key criterion for organisations with a mature KAM practice.

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ProlifIQ

JANUARY 7, 2022

Partnership enhances the rollout of account planning and bringing strategic account execution to life with seamless collaboration through Slack and Salesforce. This partnership is will enable sales teams to move from account planning to account execution in a real way.”. About Centro. About Centro.

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SalesGlobe

MARCH 3, 2023

Therefore, to introduce sales process innovation, drive growth and retain current customers, companies might need to tap into their sales team’s creative quotient. However, many companies fall into the trap of stifling creativity with tedious and unproductive account planning exercises.

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Arpedio

MAY 10, 2023

. ” The report provides sales and sales operations leaders with valuable insights into the diverse set of vendors in the rapidly evolving account-based selling technologies market. ARPEDIO’s innovative solutions align with the market definition and key capabilities outlined in the report.

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Openview

MAY 10, 2019

Effective sales enablement in the Digital Age blends the traditional practice of aligning business needs to training with the (far trickier) task of finding new and innovative ways to make training as targeted as possible to the needs of the learner.

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