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Great Customer Relationships Are a Marathon, Not a Sprint

Highspot

This is particularly challenging when you consider the role of functions like account management or customer success in building lasting customer relationships. The assets that marketing creates for the acquisition of new business are typically deemed “good enough” to be used to secure renewals.

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4 Creative Ways to Navigate a Career That Starts in Sales

Sales Hacker

While many SDRs and BDRs look to standard closing roles as the next step in their career paths, a growing number of young sales professionals are looking beyond account management as they plan out their career. How good are you at relationship building and flexing that listening muscle? What else is out there?

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The Ultimate Guide to a Career in Sales

Hubspot

Keep in mind that the majority of people in this position have several years of experience since they often have to work independently and excel at time management. Account Manager. Building and maintaining customer relationships is essential to growing a business. This is where account managers come in.

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Six Lessons on How to Build a Platform that Fuels an Ecosystem with Plaid (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

That allows us to have a very different go to market strategy. It allows us to think more about kind of where we end with the organization, how we interact with the organization, and allows us to spend a lot of time on account management and figuring out how best to kind of create champions out of those customers we have.

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Top 12 2022 B2B Marketing Trends to Watch

Heinz Marketing

How the marketing, sales and customer/account management teams work together is also critical to success. Whether or not you are taking an account-based approach to your GTM motions, your customers expect a consistent message and experience across teams. Sustainable Marketing. Change across customer-facing teams.

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170+ Women in Sales Share Their Career-Defining Aha Moment

Sales Hacker

Cassie is an operating partner at Primary Venture Partners, where she works closely with Primary’s portfolio companies to help them build, scale and optimize their go-to-market efforts. Selling today requires our traditional soft skills of empathetic listening, communication, relationship building, and decision-making.

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