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Account Based Marketing (ABM)
57% of the buying journey is complete before Sales even enters the picture! With ABM you can quadruple win rates, an opportunity too compelling to overlook.
Daniel Svvennsen
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Papers and articles
Breeding the key account manager of tomorrow
Employability of sales students and salespeople is one of sales education’s major challenges. Dr Stefan Wengler shows how different skills should be delivered by different means of instruction, depending on the sales person’s ‘development stage’ as well as the ‘Key Account Management Cycle’.
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Webinar
Selecting and categorising key customers
Have you chosen the right key accounts? Key account selection is a critical process: a simple list doesn’t do it. A good process will demonstrate that key accounts are not all the same and how they should be managed differently. Dr Diana Woodburn shows how to select your key accounts, build a matrix to categorise…
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Case Studies
Supplier relationship management (SRM)
Mini cases | Supplier Relationship Management and KAM should be the mirror image of each other, though they are not entirely symmetrical. So there’s a lot that KAM can learn from putting itself in the customer’s shoes. Use these four case studies from Dr Beth Rogers to help your team understand, practice and agree a…
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Event
The customer’s take on Strategic Relationship Management
Are you extracting the true value from your key business relationships?
Member Resources
Key Account Plans: What are they and why do we have them?
You can’t just write a plan, you need first to devise a strategy based on great customer understanding (why and how) before nailing down the activity (what?) and the people to address (who?). Key account managers often complain that plans are a waste of time and don’t get used – which is ironic, when it’s…
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AKAM Workshops & Conferences
Strategic Key Account plans and planning – AKAM Technical workshop, Lisbon, 2023
This AKAM Technical workshop (Lisbon, 2023) kicked off with the importance of strategic key account plans, arguably the most important thing a key account manager has to do. Which is at odds with the fact that they are commonly poor or even non-existent. So Dr Diana Woodburn explains how to construct the strategic key account…
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Papers and articles
An introduction to the key elements of a KAM initiative
Companies frequently launch their Key Account Management programme without having considered all the pieces essential to its success. KAM is a strategy that goes way beyond sales management, not least because the whole company is involved in delivering its promises to key customers. In this substantial paper Dr Olivier Rivière explains how and where to get started on defining and scoping your organisation’s approach. The Sales…
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Diagnostics and tools
Strategic key account plans: format
There is a fair amount of work to do to produce a strategic key account plan – you don’t want to spend time trying to decide on a format. Use this downloadable tried and tested framework to communicate necessary information and plans in a logical and coherent form that anyone who needs to know in…
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Diagnostics and tools
Strategic key account plans: worksheets
Where/how do you start to write a strategic key account plan? First comes the collection and analysis of information, then interpretation and thinking, before creating strategies that will be powerful for your company and the customer’s business as well. These downloadable worksheets help you to digest and use what you know about the customer and come…
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