Arpedio

APRIL 29, 2024

A sales account plan strategy is a vital tool for achieving sales growth and building strong client relationships. By implementing a well-defined account plan strategy, companies can ensure they are effectively targeting their key accounts and maximizing their sales potential.

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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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Janek Performance Group: Account Planning

OCTOBER 25, 2023

This makes account planning essential. More than upselling and cross-selling, account planning is partnering with existing clients. Altify notes account planning has increased from 36 percent of companies in 2013 to 50 percent today. Plus, with account planning, 74 percent see increased win rates.

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Jermaine Edwards

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

In 2016 I wrote a post on the five foundation steps for stakeholder management success in key account management, that was well received and guided lots of leaders. Our contacts and stakeholders just aren’t making decisions – How do we deal with their disengagement and getting pushed back and back while they still expect more from us?

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Arpedio

JUNE 2, 2023

How to Ignite Success With Account Plans ← Back to blog Say hello to Account Plans, the secret sauce that transforms ordinary sales strategies into extraordinary journeys of client engagement and revenue growth. In this blog post, we’re diving headfirst into the captivating world of Account Plans.

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Arpedio

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Unlock Business Potential with Effective Stakeholder Mapping Improve your critical stakeholder relationships ← Back to blog As businesses strive to achieve growth and success, many overlook the untapped potential of effective stakeholder mapping. We will also highlight the tools and techniques available for stakeholder mapping.

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Strategic Account Management Association

AUGUST 6, 2021

Commercial Excellence: supports organizational and talent needs, develops and makes available dedicated competency models meeting the requirements of the SV&I organization. Executive Sponsorship: Maps key customer stakeholders to executives and experts inside Aramex. Three additional processes are in incubation.

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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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ProlifIQ

JANUARY 18, 2022

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. Account-based selling is all about pursuing business now and down the road. It’s a must-have.

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Arpedio

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Understanding the power of a stakeholder matrix – A comprehensive guide Relationship Mapping Software ← Back to blog In the dynamic landscape of account management, understanding your clients’ needs, expectations, and concerns is paramount to building lasting and mutually beneficial relationships.

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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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Arpedio

JUNE 2, 2022

How GUBI went from limited account insight to complete stakeholder visibility. Prior to teaming up with ARPEDIO, the main challenge for GUBI was too little visibility into accounts and stakeholders. The organization as a whole simply didn’t have the full insight potential it desired into its customers and stakeholders.

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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

MARCH 23, 2023

This can happen in one of a few ways: Account Planning to Counter Sandbagging A strong account planning practice starts with consistency. In addition to helping teams gain a holistic view of their accounts, the right account planning software can help teams see sandbagging warning signs early on.

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Quip

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

But what about really complex processes like – account planning, close plans, and account transitions. Plug these into Salesforce now so your sales teams can launch and execute on: Account plans. Account transitions. Customer meeting notes. Territory plans. Mutual success plans.

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Brightbridge Consulting

AUGUST 5, 2021

We now look forward to booked engagements with the development of leadership and furtherance of account plans this Autumn. A face-to-face meeting is planned! The post Meeting up? The Global programme for Vetoquinol is complete and is being rolled out. The Research group Gartner have recently reported that 70.3%

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Upland

MARCH 29, 2023

Gone were the face to face office meetings and networking at industry events, and in their place were hour-long zoom calls with sellers wearing hoodies. Now, however, things have changed. This is part of the mindset shift required to become effective at relationship management and is also a key aspect of account planning.

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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

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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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

AUGUST 2, 2024

A Quarterly Business Review is a meeting held every three months (can be more monthly) where teams come together to discuss your client’s business and your performance as a service provider. Bonus points if it’s built inside of your CRM with an account planning tool. What is a QBR?

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ProlifIQ

OCTOBER 4, 2023

What It Is Account management strategy is the roadmap that guides your interactions with key accounts. It encompasses a series of well-thought-out actions designed to meet your goals and objectives while ensuring customer satisfaction, retention, and expansion. It lays out a detailed plan for each key account.

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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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Account Manager Tips

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

First things first: find out what they want You can't adapt your account strategy until you understand what the new procurement team want. Schedule a discovery meeting as soon as possible to figure out what their priorities are. Who are their internal stakeholders? One Page Key Account Plan Guide & Template.

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ProlifIQ

JUNE 21, 2023

This alignment helps in driving sustainable growth and ensuring the overall success of the strategic account management program. Account plans are instrumental in managing and retaining strategic accounts. Strategic account management planning involves proactive and strategic thinking.

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Upland

JULY 12, 2023

It moved us from talking about qualification to talking about account planning more broadly. Rigorous qualification is a foundational pillar of account planning because it’s the only way to focus your attention on building real, mutually beneficial relationships. It moved us in the right direction,” says Sarah.

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DemandFarm

APRIL 4, 2023

Why should you adopt Digital Key Account Management? What are some of the benefits of adopting digital account planning solutions for your key accounts? How will it be different from the existing account management strategies that you have adopted for your key accounts?

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ProlifIQ

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Where are you as a company not meeting business requirements for your customers? This is essentially the industry standard way a sales team and customer success managers think about account management. For example, the CRM can show the results of previous account plans and identify areas where improvements can be made.

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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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Arpedio

DECEMBER 22, 2023

December 23 What are the essential prerequisites a sales team must meet before a company should consider scaling their sales force? Enter draw #1 Account-Based Selling Platform Treat your colleagues to an early Christmas present Relationship Mapping & Org Chart Improve your critical stakeholder relationships.

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ProlifIQ

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

That means when a conversation begins with your selling team, it can be assumed that most of these people aren’t going into their first discovery meeting blind. As a seller, this means you must also be consultative and understand not just your own product, but also the competitive landscape within each target account.

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DemandFarm

APRIL 8, 2024

An account manager needs to keep a tab on several parameters while reaching out to different personas today to simply break through the everyday clutter. This is possible at scale provided the account manager has neatly laid out relationship goals for all the stakeholders in the account, especially the buying committee.

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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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Account Manager Tips

JULY 6, 2022

You need a long term planning horizon for co-creation. And to stay on track, you need account planning and coordination processes in place. You can work with your stakeholders in real time to unlock conversations, insights and ideas. It can take 12 to 18 months to design and implement initiatives (and to see results).

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ProlifIQ

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

This will give you insight into the other players you’ll want to connect with and primes them to understand your solution affects multiple functions/stakeholders. This puts you in a position to bring a distinct POV to those stakeholders you just uncovered. Should we invite Nancy to our next meeting to cover that?”

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Account Manager Tips

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Use meeting scheduling apps 7. Create recurring milestone meetings 11. Share the load You don't have to be the only one in your organization communicating with key stakeholders. Use meeting scheduling apps Meeting scheduling software enhances client communication by automating the appointment booking process.

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