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Strategic Account Management – A Detailed Guide

The 5% Institute

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? This is where Strategic Account Management (SAM) comes into play.

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How Your Sales Team Can Use PLG to Acquire and Expand New Customers Faster with Uday Chakravarth, Former Head of PLG at Atlassian 

SaaStr

From a PLG perspective, if you make it easy for users to start using your product, any interaction with a rep or customer service person is a bad user experience. You want customers to understand the product and pricing and start using it on their own. Whichever you choose will be a strategic decision.

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Sales Ladder: Boosting Sales Through Strategic Steps

The 5% Institute

Imagine a ladder that leads customers towards your business, guiding them step by step to conversion and loyalty. This metaphorical ladder is known as the sales ladder, a strategic framework designed to optimize the customer journey and maximize sales. It maps the customer journey from initial awareness to conversion and beyond.

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Bridging the Gap: How Marketing Can Support Customer Success

Heinz Marketing

By Michelle Voznyuk , Marketing Specialist at Heinz Marketing Customer success leaders today face an increasingly challenging task of navigating post-sales efforts. Not only are they pressured to mitigate churn, but they must also simultaneously drive revenue through upsells, cross-sells, and advocacy.

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How to make your ‘ideal customer profile’ more ideal

Martech

At the heart of top-performing B2B marketing programs lies a solid answer to the fundamental question: Do you truly know your best customers and where to find more of them? Let’s unpack this idea of differential profitability of customers and the strategic implications for B2B marketers. The key takeaway?

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Building Your Ideal Customer Profile with Data

Heinz Marketing

How do you sell if you don’t know who you’re selling to? To truly answer this question, many adept B2B marketers know they must avoid a ‘ lazy ICP’ and know the value in developing a robust ideal customer profile. . A useful ICP is a strategic document that takes more than just an internal brainstorm session.

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Leveraging Metrics for B2B Customer-Led Growth Success

Heinz Marketing

By Karla Sanders , Engagement Manager at Heinz Marketing In the ever-evolving landscape of B2B business, customer-led growth has emerged as a powerful approach to drive sustainable success. To truly understand the significance of metrics in B2B customer-led growth, let’s consider an example.

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