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

Strategic Account Management Association

Key Account Planning: Outlines a standardized methodology and template for key account planning, which has enabled the team to use account plans as a communication vehicle for internal and customer-facing purposes. Executive Sponsorship: Maps key customer stakeholders to executives and experts inside Aramex. Communication is critical.

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Back to the Future: F2F selling is returning, but virtual selling is here to stay

Strategic Account Management Association

The ability to uncover customer needs, develop solutions, communicate value propositions and negotiate effectively doesn’t vanish just because a salesperson can’t meet her customer face to face. Doing that virtually is difficult, to say the least.”. Figure 5: Most common challenges of virtual selling.

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How to Avoid the 5 Most Common Sales Hiring Mistakes

Brooks Group

How to avoid it: Work with internal stakeholders to identify the skills, behavior style, and innate motivators a person will need to succeed in your open sales position. Sales Hiring Mistake #3: You drop the ball on the onboarding process. A good onboarding experience impacts retention, performance, and long-term success.

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

DemandFarm

Relationship Intelligence and Stakeholder Knowledge The best account managers know business is personal. They create trust-based connections by mapping out and understanding key stakeholders, tracking team shifts, and staying updated on client organization changes. Core Traits of High-Performing Account Managers 1.Relationship

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37 Sales Leadership Stats to Know in 2020

Hubspot Sales

The most valued traits sales managers see in salespeople are problem solving, relationship building, critical thinking, confidence, and oral communication. 27% of companies don’t have an onboarding process for salespeople. Of new reps that did go through an onboarding program, only 26% said their training was effective.

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Alliance Management is not Rocket Science

Peter Simoons

In alliance management, you are working with a variety of stakeholders in your own organisation and in your partners’ organisations. Stakeholders are not necessarily 100% in synergy with your alliances. Besides that, every alliance is different; with different stakeholders, different partners and different value propositions.

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Revenue Ops Team Structure: Building the Backbone of Predictable Growth

DemandFarm

Improve Customer Experience : RevOps facilitates a unified approach to managing accounts, ensuring clients receive consistent communication and support. Responsibilities : Communicating changes, training teams, and minimizing disruption to ongoing operations. Evaluate the accuracy and accessibility of these metrics.