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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. In business, it has created an opportunity to reflect on how companies are managing customers, and it has given customers a window of opportunity to re-evaluate their supplier relationships to determine which partnerships are truly valuable.

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The Future of SAM – Revisited

Strategic Account Management Association

From all this, we stress tested long-held views about strategic account management. Karen Passmore is Partner at the management consulting firm McKinsey and Company where she works on organizational design and go-to-market strategies with a focus on breaking down organizational silos. Offer broader interactions with customers.

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What is Stakeholder Mapping in Sales?

Upland

Stakeholder mapping in sales is the process of mapping out key decision makers within the buying group of the account you are looking to do business with. In stakeholder mapping, you need to: Define stakeholder goals: what are their biggest priorities? What are their motivations?

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8 Key Account Management Skills in Demand Right Now

Account Manager Tips

What skills do key account managers need? Key account management is a profession in demand. Key Account Managers are in demand by companies now more than ever. LinkedIn recently revealed the most promising jobs and in-demand skills and three customer relationship focused roles made the Top 10 #3. I sure was. But fear not.

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Relationship Management Guide – Going Beyond the CRM

Upland

Relationship management in sales is all about delivering value and understanding the people and problems at play within accounts – both from prospective and current customers – in order to help solve their greatest challenges. What is relationship management? Enter the importance of relationship management.

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People & Problems: The core of strategic account planning

Strategic Account Management Association

But as a provider of a robust set of sales management and methodology capabilities , our teams work with some of the biggest sales organizations in the world. Tim Zierden, VP of Enterprise Dealer Partnerships at Cox Automotive, recently articulated to me the importance of leaning on Cox’s customer success team to uncover key insights.

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How customer success operations improves customer service

Zendesk

The band members face the audience, delivering an experience that creates loyal fans—similar to how your customer success managers (CSMs) work with your customers one-on-one. Customer success operations (CS Ops) is the behind-the-scenes crew that helps customer success managers excel at their jobs.