Sales Gravy

OCTOBER 16, 2020

The Fine Art of Blending Text Messaging Into Your Account Management Process I love blending text messaging into my account management process. There are two reasons why blending text messaging into your account management process works: It’s mobile. It creeps up on customer relationships.

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Sales Pop!

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Our conversation centered around his new book, “Iceberg Selling,” and the critical importance of understanding customers on a deeper level. The Iceberg Selling Concept Karl Becker introduced me to the concept of “Iceberg Selling,” A sales approach that goes beyond the surface-level understanding of customers.

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Sales Pop!

JUNE 19, 2024

Mindful Selling No one knows what a prospective client may want unless we ask, and the asking evolves into a growing Q&A session upfront. Lotus Solution LLC Helps organizations create diversity and inclusion to ensure fairness and work through customized consulting, training, and keynote speeches.

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Miller Heiman Group

APRIL 2, 2019

But to achieve long-term success with a strategic account, the customer needs to view you as a trusted partner, which means you need to constantly set yourself apart from the competition by helping your customer achieve their long-term goals. Strategic accounts are an important part of your company’s success.

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SalesPop

MAY 21, 2021

Through the articles in this series, we’ve now covered all aspects of account management, and its related features within Pipeliner CRM. Let’s now take an overview of the subject and pull all the pieces together, and see how Pipeliner powerfully supports account management. Back End Administration. Automatizer.

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Understanding the Sales Force

AUGUST 3, 2022

If you think about territory sales or sales into a specific vertical, reps should be calling on the same customers and prospects all the time. If a rep is selling consumables and/or supplies of some kind, they'll continue calling on those customers who buy. But what if they aren't selling consumables? But then what?

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SalesPop

MAY 7, 2021

One place where project management really comes into account management is bringing a broadly stated goal into realistic terms. They can use account planning and project management to figure out just how realistic that goal is. Numerous parts of project management will be part of this tool.

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SalesPop

APRIL 30, 2021

It has prioritized lead and opportunity management over account management. Guided by both the industry and the CRM solutions they were using, businesses and organizations never really dug into real account management. A vital key to strategic account management is creating value for the customer.

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SaaStr

MARCH 2, 2025

Growth Tactic #3: Reimagining Customer Success for Retention AND Growth Rippling’s approach to customer success evolved dramatically as they scaled. As they grew, they tried having CSMs own cross-sell opportunities, but this proved ineffective. Initially, they had CSMs as the only post-sales resource.

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Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 30, 2022

They had invested a lot in training, content, and other programs to support the account based selling focus. People were going through the motions of developing their account plans, they would review them with management, then they went back to doing their jobs in the way they had always done them.

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Partners in Excellence

JULY 31, 2020

What struck me in each discussion was how few people were being engaged at the customer — and that the right people weren’t being engaged, even by the customer buying group. A few questioned, “Why should we do that, the IT people are our customers?” Think about selling to technology buyers.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 26, 2024

It’s a solution that addresses the way buying is changing, integrating digital and personal selling. But what really interested me were Bill’s perspectives on where buying and selling is headed and how we must change our engagement strategies to work with buyers more impactfully.

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Sales Gravy

APRIL 22, 2022

Leveraging LinkedIn gives you the ability to connect with and learn more about prospects and customers than at any other time in history. On this Sales Gravy podcast episode, Jeb Blount and Daniel Disney discuss the real secrets to becoming a LinkedIn selling machine.

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Martech

JUNE 12, 2024

So, why don’t we consistently use those strategies on existing customers with a higher brand understanding? Many marketing teams neglect the opportunity to engage and upsell customers using proven, data-driven prospecting techniques. Customer marketing and prospecting are not the same. Watch for patterns in page path analysis.

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Sales Pop!

MAY 20, 2023

The book was by Daniel Pink and was entitled To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth about Moving Others. In To Sell Is Human , the author quotes playwright Arthur Miller from his famous play Death of a Salesman. This was certainly true at the time To Sell Is Human was published in 2012. Pink cited the U.S.

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Veloxy

JUNE 15, 2023

Short Summary Outside sales is a process that involves traveling to meet potential customers and build relationships. Key factors driving outside sales growth include personalized customer service, increased competition, and digital technologies & tools.

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Martech

OCTOBER 11, 2021

“Customers will know that they can rely on us when things go wrong and that could be a deciding factor in them deciding to stay with us rather than go elsewhere.” ” We were talking to Gemma Cipriani-Espineira about the reason she re-branded her support team as the department of Customer Love.

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Search Engine Land

AUGUST 22, 2024

Using just one campaign is also common for medium-sized accounts, particularly those with high-end products, high average order values (AOV) or in service-based industries like SaaS and insurance, where CPCs and CPAs are high. Account managers often segment for the sake of segmentation. No need for separate campaigns.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

While the link between retaining customers and profitability is pretty well understood, most companies still approach customer retention with piecemeal initiatives. When customers say: “ We are not getting the outcomes we expected ”. “ The final arbiter of value received must be the customer. It’s All About Value.

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Sales Pop!

AUGUST 6, 2022

When it comes to maintaining existing accounts, Pipeliner CRM is the only system with embedded key account management features, whereas others (such as Salesforce and Microsoft Dynamics) have account management functionality only as an add-on, or don’t include key account management. .

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Veloxy

JUNE 23, 2021

When we talk about outside sales, we’re referring to a team that goes out on sales calls to sell regionally and at conferences, events, and so on. One way to select between outside and inside sales hires is by analyzing the type of product you’re selling. 3: Account Managers. Why Start with Inside Sales? .

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

His view is your sales team teaches your customers how to get value out of your product. So if you’re not technical enough to understand the product and understand how it works, it’s hard to teach your customers. ( Hire early sales reps who are excellent at discovery and customer education. The takeaway?

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Heinz Marketing

MAY 20, 2022

While the idea of customer success as a profit center is not new, it is regaining momentum and overtaking new logo acquisition as the main strategy for B2B revenue growth. Our clientele often come to us for help gaining new customers. Customer Marketing. Customer Marketing. Customer Success. Account Management.

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Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

And we have the convergence of information overwhelm, increased sources of distraction, accelerating change, and skyrocketing complexity–in our customers markets, in their own organizations, with competition/partners, and within our own organization. At the same time, sales performance continues to stagnate or even decline.

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Partners in Excellence

APRIL 26, 2021

We tend to take for granted that our customers know how to buy. Too often, our customers get derailed in their buying journey, they want to buy, they need to buy, but they don’t know how to navigate the process and the hurdles put up by their own organizations. Customers need our help!

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Veloxy

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Before Covid, field sales was synonymous with hitting the road, meeting customers in person, and regularly making significant commissions. Today, field salespeople have had to pivot to a hybrid approach consisting of inside, remote, and virtual selling. But what does tomorrow hold for field sales?

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The 5% Institute

AUGUST 15, 2023

Strategic Account Management (SAM) is a powerful approach that goes beyond conventional sales tactics, focusing on creating value, fostering trust, and driving mutual growth between businesses and their most valuable clients. What Is Strategic Account Management?

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SalesPop

MARCH 20, 2022

In this Expert Insight Interview, Brent Keltner discusses how to transition elegantly from sales to customer success and develop that as a continuum. This Expert Insight Interview discusses: How customer success has changed in the subscription-based economy. Why organizations must work hard to make the customer experience seamless.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

The three growth tactics that worked for Rippling can be categorized into three different stages: Outbound Increasing closed-won revenue rates Serving customers and expanding revenue in the base Let’s start with outbound, where most of Rippling’s revenue comes from attribution-wise. This was a painful learning at Rippling.

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The 5% Institute

AUGUST 7, 2023

In today’s dynamic business landscape, possessing a comprehensive set of skills is crucial for any successful account manager. The role of an account manager goes beyond mere customer service – it involves nurturing client relationships, driving revenue growth, and enhancing a company’s reputation.

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Hubspot

MARCH 14, 2021

Solid social selling skills are transitioning from a nice-to-have to a need-to-have for sales professionals, but developing that kind of expertise is much easier said than done. I also have two Facebook accounts — one for the book we wrote Inbound Organization and another for my personal speaking engagements.

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Hubspot

AUGUST 3, 2020

If the difference between a hobby and a business is making sales to customers, then how do you make the transition? It’s one thing to have a theory around who you’d like to sell to but how do you actually find those initial customers to sell to? There’s a simple framework you can use to find customers.

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Salesforce

MAY 9, 2024

In today’s highly competitive consumer goods (CG) industry, success often hinges on the strength of your relationships with key accounts. Effective key account management isn’t just a tactic, it’s a vital strategy for achieving profitable growth. But what sets your key account managers (KAMs) apart from your competitors’?

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 13, 2024

A $1B Acquisition with a Singular Leader for Both Sales and Customer Success In 2017, tech leader Vikas Bhambry found himself at a crossroads. Kustomer, a SaaS startup navigating leadership changes, unexpectedly handed him the reins to both sales and customer experience/success. ” The dual role provided clarity for customers. .”

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 24, 2025

Too often, businesses treat these as separate domainsone focused on development, the other on selling. Instead, leaders need to plan from the start how customers will find, use, and grow with their product. Some products, like Twilio, naturally expand as customers use them more. What is your customer’s journey?

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Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 10, 2020

We know our solutions have to create value for our customers. The challenge, however, is making sure that value we create is important to our customers. We look at all the benefits the customer will get, from the solution. This is really important to the customer–though sometimes they may not realize it.

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Sales Pop!

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

The Common Lists include elements relating to account hierarchy, sales roles, contact relations and account relations. As you’ll readily see, these easy-to-utilize elements have incredible usefulness to sales and account management. Accounts Hierarchy.

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