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Turning lemons into lemonade: Five ways to reset on customer management fundamentals in a post-pandemic world

Strategic Account Management Association

By Dave Duke, Co-Founder and CCO, MetaCX, and Joel Schaafsma, Research General Manager, SAMA. Once you’ve established which customers have the highest likelihood of strategic success, you need to structure your organization around the needs of the customer and create a customer-centric organization that drives co-created innovation.

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The 13 Best Live Chat Software Tools of 2019

Hubspot Sales

And whether we're instant messaging a co-worker or chatting with customer support on our favorite website, we often get a response almost instantly. And this information can be used to convert prospects to customers and inform business decisions across departments (i.e., sales, marketing, and customer success).

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The Ultimate Guide to Build a Top Performing Key Account Management Team from Scratch

DemandFarm

Cross-Functional Collaboration High-performing KAMs bridge teams, coordinating with sales, customer success, and product development to holistically tailor solutions that address client goals. Monitoring Progress against KPIs Growth Planning: Do they proactively work with economic decision makers to co-create value-driven growth plans?

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

DemandFarm

In the business world, customer success management is no longer an afterthought; it’s a necessity. Consensus across research confirms: retaining existing customers costs 5 to 25 times less than acquiring new ones. Success lies in a tailored, strategic approach to customer success management.

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3 Key Commercial Capabilities to serve customers and grow revenue

KAM With Passion

Complex sales is about generating and winning opportunities and acquiring new customers in a B2B (private) or B2G (public/government) environment where different stakeholders are involved on the buyer’s side and the solution is partially or totally co-constructed with the customer.

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Webinar: Customer-centricity as a revenue lever in ABS (Account-Based Selling)

DemandFarm

The truism “creating value for your customers will eventually create revenue for your company” perhaps rings loudest in the targeted, relationship-heavy, high-value space of account-based selling. Unrelenting, obsessive, customer-centricity.

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Partner Ecosystems: How Partnerships Can Help You Expand Your Offerings and Retain Business

Hubspot Sales

Customers receive specialized expertise that delivers measurable outcomes, and HubSpot benefits from increased customer success. New customers gain value from HubSpot tools quickly through an expert implementation from a solutions partner, quickly integrating HubSpot into the rest of their tech stack.