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AKAM Workshops & Conferences

Account-based marketing – 3rd Annual AKAM Conference

Andrea Clatworthy, Head of Account Based Marketing, Fujitsu, has won numerous awards for ABM and its relative DBM (Deal-Based Marketing). She gave an invigorating presentation on the hot topic of the moment, simplifying the range of different definitions down to “Getting the right message to the right person at the right time”. The data provided gave invaluable insight…

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AKAM Workshops & Conferences

Bipolar KAM – 3rd Annual AKAM Conference

Almut Ringlben, Account Director and Florian Heidecke, Chief Client Officer of Namics AG were deliberately controversial in challenging delegates to consider the bipolar nature of KAM in many companies. They identified nine areas where two KAM approaches could be diametrically opposed to each other, and yet exist in the same organisation at the same time. It begs the question of…

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Webinar

Leading in a virtual workspace

Trust has long been recognised as an important ingredient of effective leadership – its centrality to a range of leadership theories being well documented over the past 50 plus years. However, the nature of leadership has changed dramatically in recent decades, in line with trends in business and organisational structures. Key account managers often need to…

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Webinar

Virtual Meetings: how to promote effective business relationships with key customers

This webinar was presented by Cristina Mariani, Alinea Training and consulting. Over the last few months, everyone has been thrown into meeting customers via Zoom etc. Most of us would rather be seeing customers face-to-face but, even when we return to the ‘new normal’, face-to-face visits are likely to be severely curtailed. Both supplier and customer companies…

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AKAM Workshops & Conferences

KAM/Sales management stressors: When it frustrates…and when it doesn’t

KAM often results in (counterproductive) stress – but where does it really come from? Research shows that no single factor induces stress, it’s about different combinations of stressors So how do you achieve ‘non-stress’ i.e. mellowness? And should you try? It’s not just the flip-side of stress.

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Papers and articles

Looking in the mirror: Supplier Relationship Management

What do you know about your customer’s SRM approach? This article summarises the 2021 annual survey of Supplier Relationship Management from supplier management consultancy State of Flux. For example, 99% of Leaders and 87% of Fast Followers have a supplier segmentation process and use the outputs to define treatment strategies for suppliers. So do you know…

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KAM communications

Are you ready for ABM?

Account Based Marketing (ABM) is, almost without question, the buzzword in B2B marketing at the moment. But what is it, and how should you be thinking about using it as part of your KAM strategy? Fujitsu’s renowned ABM expert Andrea Clatworthy explains what ABM is and is not – for example, it’s not something that marketing do…

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Papers and articles

Why is Account-Based Marketing the hottest topic in KAM?

Research has shown that sophisticated buyers and customers tune out from everything except the most relevant messages and content. Two-thirds of senior executives don’t believe a salesperson knows enough about their business to bring value to a meeting, and only a quarter of them are prepared to take a second meeting! That means that 2 out of…

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Papers and articles

The future of Key Account Management

Is key account management still the right thing to do with major customers? The business environment has suffered several shocks in the past few years, and ways of doing business need to respond: sometimes business models have to be reconfigured. How should/will KAM change in the next few years? Dr Beth Rogers considers the future…

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KAM communications

Why Marketing is essential to KAM

There has been a long-running war between Sales and Marketing that is not only counter-productive in KAM but also hugely wasteful of an invaluable resource. Technology is/should be increasingly deployed in KAM, and Marketing has mastered digital communications that have a reach and currency that key account managers can’t achieve alone. Furthermore, marketing analytics can…

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