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Strategic account managers (and their bosses) deserve better decision-making tools

Strategic Account Management Association

And yet several trends are converging to make decisions over deployment or resources more difficult. Only around 60 percent of account managers are making quota, per HBR. If you’re a SAM and want to quickly lose credibility, just go into your CRM and add up all the factored opportunities and submit that as your “Commit.”

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Break & Glue: The art of capturing complex mega-strategic accounts in CRM to get the most from account planning tools 

Strategic Account Management Association

A while ago, I came across a discussion about the optimal way to capture strategic customers in a customer relationship management (CRM) tool in a way that enables effective, efficient account planning using account planning applications or tools. Options for capturing your complex mega-strategic account in CRM.

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Got CXM? Why customer experience management isn’t just a nice-to-have for strategic account management

Strategic Account Management Association

I’m talking about customer experience management (CXM), which I would argue may be the single most important investment a company can make in today’s cut-throat business climate. CXM vs. CRM: Do you need both? Bottom line: You need both CRM and CXM for your business to succeed. It is absolutely essential to success today.

CXM 520
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Relationship Management Guide – Going Beyond the CRM

Upland

As you will see, this goes well beyond the data collected in the CRM system, and often warrants additional, specialized technology, like relationship mapping tools , married to world-class sales methodologies and best practices, ideally integrated and 100% native to your CRM solution.

CRM 195
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The 10 Best SaaS CRM Software

Hubspot Sales

SaaS worker is a CRM platform holding their life together. If you're new to the world of CRMs, then prepare to have your world turned upside down. When someone on LinkedIn casually mentioned their CRM, it was like I was given superpowers. Everyone needs a CRM, but SaaS teams have an above-average need. User Experience.

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Intuition vs. data-driven decision making in business today

Insightly

Data-driven decision making is the process of studying large amounts of data, analyzing it to identify patterns, obtaining actionable insights, and using that insight to make business decisions. When marketers make data-based decisions, they can see what’s not working and double-down on what is.

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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. How will you make changes in your SAM program?