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Learn from the best: The 2020 SAMA Excellence Awards winners

Strategic Account Management Association

Most of all, they proved that getting strategic account management right unlocks huge benefits in terms of growth, profitability, customer satisfaction and attainment of strategic goals.

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How Aramex’s Young SAM Program Provides Strategic Value and Impact

Strategic Account Management Association

Form an organizational capability around co-creating products and solutions with our customers Redesign our philosophy around our customers’ needs Make a positive business impact on our customers’ operations Ingrain a deeply customer-centric vision and mission for sales. Gross profit: The goal is to improve performance year over year.

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Servitization 101 – How servitization can strengthen your relationship with your key accounts

Strategic Account Management Association

Servitization and advanced services offer the potential for organizations to significantly transform their business models to deliver even greater value to customers while also increasing their own profitability. But what do we mean by servitization, and what exactly are advanced services? What is servitization?

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How to Identify Key Accounts: A Quick Guide to Getting it Right

Account Manager Tips

You're sitting on a goldmine of existing customers that: can deliver an above-average revenue growth; want to invest in your partnership; will co-create value in ways that neither of you could do alone. You'll select your key accounts with 15 criteria which are grouped into three categories: Growth, Harmony and Value Creation.

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AI Payments — How Brands are Already Using AI in Commerce [+Examples]

Hubspot Sales

Think invoice creation, fraud detection, and ordering these processes can be easily automated and monitored for errors. Its your best co-worker. And that co-workers best skill is looking at the past and present to offer the best solutions to streamline your workflows. AI in payments is no different. I like this use of AI.

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The many colours of B2B sales performance

KAM With Passion

First, truly complex sales , those where many stakeholders are involved with often contradictory expectations, where the proposed solution is co-constructed with the prospective customer. In addition, the stability and loyalty of the customer base are essential factors for profitability. Why does it matter? Why does it matter?

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Key Account Manager or Strategic Ecosystem Leader?

Arpedio

The KAM must manage a program and lead the business strategy across internal stakeholders and the value co-creation with the stakeholders at their key accounts – not a trivial endeavor. SAMA is a global non-profit organization with more than 15,000 members. Share on facebook. Share on linkedin. Share on email. um@arpedio.com.