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What’s In A Name? Turns Out — Everything!

LP Building Solutions, SAMA Excellence Award winner for Outstanding Young Program of 2023, outlines its blueprint for SAM success.

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Strategic Account Manager Training: Begin with the End in Mind and Ask...

Ask these discovery questions to train and elevate your SAMs to greatness.

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A higher calling: Putting the work of the SAM into perspective

By Harvey Dunham, Managing Director of Business Development, SAMA When the holidays approach, and my thoughts drift toward the special circumstance of...
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SAM2Win: An interview with the creator of the online game that teaches...

At SAMA we strive to be innovative in how we deliver value to our customers, and that means experimenting with different formats...
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Once you’re in, you’re in: A SAM-tested process for expediting human interactions...

By Saleh Al-Ben Saleh, Strategic Account Manager, Emerson Expediting “inside” knowledge of your strategic account(s) is vital to realizing indisputable value for...
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Creating joint solutions: Drive execution and communicate value (Part 3)

The final installment of The Summit Group’s three-part series offering a framework for creating joint solutions with strategic and key accounts.

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When selling innovation, the biggest challenge is mental
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When selling innovation, the biggest challenge is mental

The academics Thomas Steenburgh and Michael Ahearne set out recently to uncover why companies are so much more successful at developing innovations...
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The four pillars of work a SAM must execute on to be...

Too often, SAMs and their managers can lose sight of the actual work that needs to take place in order to make a SAM successful. The author offers four key pillars of work key and strategic account managers must execute in order to be successful.

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