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Breaking Free: Why Key Account Management Must Escape Your CRM’s Gravity

DemandFarm

For years, Key Account Management (KAM) has been confined within the walls of CRM systemsSalesforce, Microsoft Dynamics, and HubSpot. The logic was straightforward: if customer data already lives inside a CRM, why manage key accounts elsewhere? Key Account Management is not an extension of sales.

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KAM Technology – Growing Key Accounts In 2025

ProlifIQ

KAM Technology & Use Cases in 2025 KAM technology plays a crucial role in supporting these best practices by providing powerful tools and features that streamline and enhance key account management processes. Interested in seeing a Key Account Management solution to help you retain and grow key customers?

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The Business Review: a modern classic, so important also during difficult times

KAM With Passion

As a company, business unit or sales leaders, here are a few facts to keep in mind: First, In B2B, on average, 70% of revenue comes from existing customers. For a blog post on the difference between Account Management and Key Account Management, go here. Business Reviews in a Key Account Management context.

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Comprehensive Career Path Guide for a Key Account Manager

DemandFarm

Key Account Management (KAM) focuses on building long-term relationships, and aims to improve customer satisfaction – especially in a B2B scenario. While the key account management practice is demanding, it also offers many benefits. What does a Key Account Manager do?

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10 Steps to Win Over Your Client’s New Procurement Team

Account Manager Tips

First things first: find out what they want You can't adapt your account strategy until you understand what the new procurement team want. Grab this free easy-to-follow guide that will have you writing a successful key account plan in no time! The world's most amazing community of key account manager.

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Forget elephants; hunt whales instead

Deep Insight

. ‘Whale Hunting with Global Accounts’ resonated strongly with me because it examines many of the challenges that I see within our own B2B clients. There’s no getting away from it: Key Account Management (KAM) and its big brother Global Account Management (GAM) are challenging activities.

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Stakeholder Mastery 3.0 – The Six Steps You Must Take

Jermaine Edwards

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. The six steps every serious customer leading B2B organisation must adopt to solve any stakeholder challenge and generate consistent results.