Account Management Skills

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Welcome to episode 107. If you’ve ever wondered if you’re pricing your services in the right way, this one is for you. Alfie Wenegieme , Managing Partner at Cactus, joins me and he shares: 1. Why agencies don’t lose pitches on price alone 2. How agencies price to ensure a healthy profit margin 3. Typical mistakes agencies make when pricing 4. And some useful tips for account managers and project managers when scoping projects If you’re listening to this episode in February 2024, I’m opening enro

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PandaDoc

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

If your company wants to increase sales and nurture existing customers, account management software could be the perfect tool to propel you to success. This guide will discuss what account management software can offer you, the main benefits and features to look for, and our assessment of the best solutions on the market. That way, you can make an educated choice about which suits your requirements the best.

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SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Greetings, esteemed readers. Today, I am thrilled to share insights into the recent partnership between SmartKarrot and Quint, a collaboration that promises to reshape the landscape of customer success in the tech industry. As a seasoned customer success expert, I find this venture particularly exciting, and I believe it holds tremendous potential for both organizations.

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Strategic Planning and Management Insights

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Anthony Taylor runs through the whole journey of strategic planning. Discover the art of simplicity, a five-step method for strategy, and more. Tune in now!

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What if you could help your sellers stop wasting 72% of their day on non-selling activities and focus on bringing in revenue? Incorporating AI in your enablement workflows can help you cut down on busy work, get projects done faster, and let your team (and you!) focus on making a bigger impact. We put together this guide to show you how to use AI to cut time and costs for projects, including collateral creation, development of training videos, and automating tedious processes.

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The Center for Sales Strategy

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Your next hire is important! Right? It’s probably one of the top reasons managers tell me their job is hard. Finding talented people is difficult, and once you find them, hiring them and getting them onboarded is time-consuming and stressful. You have a lot to do, but investing time and energy in a few important onboarding disciplines can give you and your new hire a better chance for success.

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Red Star Kim

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

At the recent Business Development for Professionals – 2024 Virtual Conference – MBL Seminars I presented a session entitled “Supporting Fee-Earners in Sales Targeting”. I’ve summarised the key points here as a supplementary learning resource for the delegates. And I’ve noted the highlights of the sessions by other speakers (How the BD function can be more influential, Rethinking your online strategy, Digital marketing maturity and Best practice for KAM) below.

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Customer Think

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

For the last five years, around this time, I’ve compiled a set of customer experience-related predictions for the coming year. For each article, I gather together a set of predictions that have been sent to me over the preceding month.

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Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Welcome to "The Pipeline" — a weekly column from HubSpot, featuring actionable advice and insight from real sales leaders. Every time you use a selfish sales tactic, you’re destroying the trust between you and your buyer — but you’re not just hurting yourself. When a salesperson uses a slimy sales tactic, the entire sales profession takes one step backward.

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RAIN Group

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Unless you’ve been on an extended media break, you’re aware that artificial Intelligence (AI) is making a splash across all industries of business. I’ve seen this as a practitioner. I work closely with client organizations and collaborate with senior executives, and I’ve been getting a lot of questions lately about AI. What’s RAIN Group’s position on AI?

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SBI Growth

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The marketing landscape is ever evolving, and it could take market leaders considerable effort to keep up with every shift and development. To help marketing leaders maintain their competitive advantage in 2024, SBI has compiled 10 key predictions for what B2B marketing will look like in the year ahead.

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2023's struggles fueled a shift: companies are ditching wasteful strategies in favor of data and AI-powered growth. Enter 2024, the year GTC takes center stage. Discover 5 ways a customer-centric approach unlocks new revenue and delivers lasting success.

Customer Think

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Employee experience. Employee engagement. Employee retention. Candidate experience. I’ve written many times about those topics in the past. Your employees should be your top priority, your hottest topic – right now. (Actually, always. Employees should always be more first.

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Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

If you’ve worked in the food service industry – or read Anthony Bourdain’s Kitchen Confidential – you know restaurant work ain’t for the faint-hearted. The average employee turnover rate for the industry was a whopping 79.6% over the last decade. And 58% of workers at restaurants, bars, and hotels are planning to quit before the end of the year, per Restaurant Business.

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The Center for Sales Strategy

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Spending time observing salespeople is something all leaders should do occasionally. You can learn so much more by observing first-hand how your salespeople interact with clients and customers. This can work by physically accompanying a salesperson in the field or translating to online sales by listening to sales calls or observing emails and chats.

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Sales Gravy

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

On this episode of the Sales Gravy podcast Jeb Blount and Carole Mahoney, author of the hit new book Buyer First, underscore the importance of putting buyers first and aligning with the buyer's journey. They dive into the power of empathy, the art of listening, and innovative ways of selling that prioritize the buyer's needs and experiences to increase closing ratios.

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Advertiser: ZoomInfo

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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Customer Think

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Do you want to learn how to create blog posts that resonate with your customers? If so, you’re in the right place! Blogging is one of the best ways to improve brand awareness, build customer loyalty, and win over new visitors.

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ClearPoint Strategy

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Discover ClearPoint's Workspaces & Dashboards: Key to efficient government strategy execution, enhanced collaboration, and real-time data insights.

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The Center for Sales Strategy

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The good news: most of the sellers surveyed for the 5th Annual Media Sales Report knew what their sales talents were and how to put them to use. The bad news: 11% reported that they had NEVER received feedback on their sales talents. Think about it. Those 11% are at an automatic disadvantage. When projects come up, they may not know if those projects suit their talents.

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Groove HQ

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Improving your customer relations can be business-changing. Lower churn, higher LTV and more raving fans! The post Better Customer Relations = Profit Growth appeared first on Groove Blog.

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How do 1st, 2nd, and 3rd party intent data compare? 1st, 2nd, and 3rd party data each have specific advantages and disadvantages. It comes down to four factors: accuracy, cost, control and quantity. This infographic explains the pros and cons of each and helps you understand which one is best for meeting your business objectives. Intent data can be a great way to fill your pipeline and close more deals.

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Customer Think

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

What is Customer Experience ROI? This is a question with a hundred different answers, inaccurately. It’s not that complicated, but CX ROI advice is typically based on: — Inside-out viewpoints rather than outside-in perspectives. — A portion of customer experience management (selling, referrals, service, etc.).

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Nutshell

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Email marketing is still one of the most effective ways to reach new and existing customers online. Add the ability to optimize those campaigns with email A/B testing through your email marketing tool, and you have everything you need to improve engagement and increase revenue. Although A/B testing is incredibly powerful in email marketing when executed correctly, marketers often overlook it.

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The Center for Sales Strategy

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The good news: most of the sellers surveyed for the 5th Annual Media Sales Report knew what their sales talents were and how to put them to use. The bad news: 11% reported that they had NEVER received feedback on their sales talents. Think about it. Those 11% are at an automatic disadvantage. When projects come up, they may not know if those projects suit their talents.

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Groove HQ

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Keeping your customers happy should be key objective, create a map to help you achieve that. The post Customer Journey Map: Boost Loyalty and Cut Churn! appeared first on Groove Blog.

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Every marketer knows how important it is to prove their efforts drive sales opportunities, but that’s easier said than done. When problems like sales and marketing misalignment, lack of data, and wasted efforts persist, marketers can’t measure, prove, or increase their impact on revenue at a time when demonstrating marketing value is critical. Using analyst and expert data, this guide to marketing impact and content attribution explains: How B2B buyers use content The most common types of conten

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Customer Think

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

A huge number of Gen AI-based tools and applications have flooded the market. Some of these applications are clever and creative but they are mostly wrappers for the large language models (LLMs) behind applications such as ChatGPT.

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Nutshell

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

When you’re in the depths of the sales process, how do you know what step to take next? How do you know what action will be most effective for moving a lead toward becoming a loyal customer? Just focusing on the desired outcome—a new sale—won’t get you there. So many factors go into a successful won deal. You need an actionable plan to deal with the uncertainty and figure out what works.

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Zendesk

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Artificial intelligence has the potential to not only improve the customer experience but also drastically improve the admin and service operations experience. We believe AI can make service operations much faster and more efficient, allowing service teams to focus on delivering better CX instead of being bogged down by time-consuming admin work. As such, we acquired Tymeshift in June 2023 to give organizations using Zendesk an easier way to manage their teams.

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Strategic Communications

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

This year’s Super Bowl LVIII will be held in Las Vegas on February 11 between two teams, that according to a number of online memes hardly anybody except fans in their states want to win. I’d have to agree. Unless my team (Green Bay Packers) is in the Super Bowl, I really don’t have much interest in the game. I do, though, have a lot of interest in the commercials!

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Speaker: Susan Spencer, Principal of Spencer Communications

Intent signal data can go a long way toward shortening sales cycles and closing more deals. The challenge is deciding which is the best type of intent data to help your company meet its sales and marketing goals. In this webinar, Susan Spencer, fractional CMO and principal of Spencer Communications, will unpack the differences between contact-level and company-level intent signals.

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Customer Think

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Market researchers and marketers have always maintained that understanding customer attitudes, behaviors, and unmet needs are critical for business success. In the past, this was simpler. There were fewer ways organizations engaged with customers and fewer ways customers engaged with organizations.

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Strategic Planning and Management Insights

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

1906 is making microdosing more accessible and legal, opening the door to a new era of wellness. We hear how cannabis exec Peter Barsoom leads the charge.

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Force Management

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

If you want to lead a top-performing organization, you need a way to equip the daily grind of sales. Training programs are effective, but what happens after the training stops? You need an enablement engine with content, curriculum and community. That's the power of our platform Ascender™. Right now, we’re working with sales leaders who have seen measurable improvements in quota attainment and forecast accuracy leveraging Ascender.

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Help Scout

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

In a competitive field like customer service, a great cover letter can help you stand out from the crowd. Check out these examples and tips for writing one of your own.

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In times of economic uncertainty, account-based strategies are essential. According to several business analysts and practitioners, ABM is a necessity for creating more predictable revenue. Research shows that nearly three-quarters of marketers (74%) already have the resources needed to build successful ABM programs.

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