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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

In strategic account management, companies have to address the never-ending question of how to differentiate themselves and gain market share. And yet most SAM organizations — large and small — haven’t tapped this potentially huge source of competitive differentiation. The basics: What CXM actually is. In a word: No!

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Lessons from a Winning Global Account Management (GAM) Program

Strategic Account Management Association

It designs, integrates, manages ad supports on-site and cloud-based communications and collaboration technologies for organizations around the globe. A New Enterprise Account Management (EAM) Program. For the composite organization, that equates to $12.4 Establishing a Customer-Centric GAM Program.

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Ten insights on the future of SAM

Strategic Account Management Association

As conveners of the largest community in the world dedicated to strategic and key account management, one of SAMA’s foundational purposes is to help our community both adapt to what’s happening right now and prepare for what may happen next. Sales and account management – no longer an expense but an investment.

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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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Why B2B Contact and Account Data Management Is Critical to Your ROI

Given data’s direct impact on marketing campaigns, reporting, and sales follow-up, maintaining an accurate and consistent database is a top priority for B2B organizations. Download this eBook and gain an understanding of the impact of data management on your company’s ROI. How data impacts your organization as a whole.

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Want to Accelerate Your SAM Journey? Create a Center of Excellence

Strategic Account Management Association

Organizations are already planning for this new- or next-normal hybrid model and have worked hard to elevate the needed skill sets of their commercial teams – especially strategic account managers. This is leading many companies to accelerate their strategic account management journeys and transformations. Is this a coincidence?

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Collaborative Ecosystem

Strategic Account Management Association

Jochen Koetzle, Head of Strategic Account Management at Endress+Hauser Group, explores the essence of collaborative ecosystems, their role in driving innovation, providing solutions, and ensuring resilience. He also shares insights on his organization's efforts to highlight the transformative power of collaboration.

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Forrester Research Report: How Sales and Marketing Intelligence Drive Improved Business Outcomes

of companies achieved a score indicating maturity in data management practices in the space.". However, organizations are fighting back - and winning. B2B organizations struggle with bad data. More organizations are investing in B2B sales and marketing intelligence solutions. The primary takeaway?

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How to Overcome the Pain Points of Your CRM

The promise of a CRM ( customer relationship management ) led organizations to believe each could digitally transform its businesses through tracking touchpoints throughout the buyer’s journey. When used effectively, a CRM can be the lifeblood of your sales team – keeping everyone organized, efficient, and at peak productivity.

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4 AI Hacks to Make Sales Teams More Efficient

Over the last two years, there’s been a 76 percent increase in AI adoption across sales organizations. Simplify account-health management. For sales teams, AI opens up a world of new possibilities, including automating outreach, identifying best-fit buyers, and keeping CRMs flush with fresh data. Automate personalized outreach.

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2020 Database Strategies and Contact Acquisition Survey Report

47% of marketers said they have a database management strategy in place, but there is room for significant improvement. As buyer expectations to receive this type of relevant engagement continues to heighten, database management strategies are of high importance.

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Best Practices for a Marketing Database Cleanse

As frustrating as contact and account data management is, this is still your database – a massive asset to your organization, even if it is rife with holes and inaccurate information. This buyers guide will cover: Review of important terminology, metrics, and pricing models related to database management projects.

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A New Age of Hybrid Leadership

Speaker: Renee Thomas and Alexis Barone, Wrike Team

It's time for project managers to gain a new understanding of what good leadership looks like in the future of work. What the future of work looks like for customer-facing organizations and teams. What managers can do to enable their teams. Enter the new model of work, the hybrid schedule. How to address employee burnout.

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How ZoomInfo Enhances Your ABM Strategy

For marketing teams to develop a successful account-based marketing strategy, they need to ensure good data is housed within its Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software. More specifically, updated data can help organizations outline key accounts for their campaigns.

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How ZoomInfo Enhances Your Database Management Strategy

It's quite a process for marketing teams to develop a long-term data management strategy. It involves finding a data management provider that can append contacts with correct information — in real-time. Forward-thinking marketing organizations have continuously invested in a database strategy for enabling marketing processes.