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Matt Heinz
President, Heinz Marketing Inc
matt@heinzmarketing.com @heinzmarketing
Account Management Best Practices:
Strategies, Tactics & More to Increase
Retention, Loyalty & Lifetime Value
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Housekeeping
• Copy of this deck
• Offers for you
• 10 minute brainstorm: “Your hardest problem”
• Successful Selling
• Modern Marketer’s Field Guide
• Content Marketing Best Practice Guide
• B2B Sales & Marketing Metrics Best Practices Guide
• Send me an email (matt@heinzmarketing.com) or hand
me a business card with what you want
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Objectives & Measures of Success
Organization
• Retention
• Loyalty
• NetPromoter score
• Renewals
• Land & expand
• Referrals
Individual
• Average NetPromoter score
• Cross-channel touches
• Book of business
• Referrals
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Account Management Roles
• Be intentional and clear with your team
• Trusted, go-to expert
• Community manager
• Cheerleader
• Salesperson
• Have you trained in these roles?
• Have you practiced…
• Tone
• Language
• Nomenclature
• Etiquette
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Customer & industry knowledge
• Do they understand…
• Industry jargon
• Seasonal calendar & events
• Acronyms
• Work cycles
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Skill sets
• Time management & triage
• Daily execution discipline
• The art of conversation
• Active listening
• Trouble signs
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Matt’s Daily Do List
1.Schedule (yesterday & today - follow-ups, thank yous, LinkedIn requests)
2.Touch Base (birthdays, Likes)
3.Thank you notes
4.Chochkie mailings – notepads, coasters, water bottles, notebooks?
5.Tweepi (#mktggenius, #mktgnation, #forrforum, #martech, #salesacceleration,
#sdsummit, #b2bsummit, #socialhangout, @chiefmartec)
6. Named Account engagement
6.5 @Action clean-out
7.Gmail
7.5. Google+ adds & Plus-Ones
8.Cell phone voicemails
8.5. QuotaDeck
9.Text messages
10.Contactually (including the Bucket Game)
11.Reading folder
12.Salesloft Prospector follow-up
13.Endorsements (skills, Kred, Klout)
13.5. LinkedIn group approvals
14. Facebook review
15.Feedly review
15.5. SFDC leads (no source, web site visits)
16. Buffer refill
17.Moleskine To-Do list
19.Engage (Comments, LinkedIn Groups)
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Relationship-building tactics
• Get personal!
• Build a relationship with the person, not the persona
• 3x3 process
• Find them on alternative channels – Pinterest, Instagram, etc.
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Content nurture & curation
• Drip content across channels
• Industry news & blogs
• Centralized curation
• Scheduled & situational
• Be the go-to!
I have three: Active, Delegated & Someday
Weekly review process
Add and forget (until Sunday)
(print a copy for show-and-tell tomorrow)
Smartsheet for groups
@WaitingFor folder
Contactually
Projects – Delegated folder
Sort by context
Use dates unless it’s not deadline-driven
“One of Five”
Use tools to make it available everywhere
Make the “anywhere” tasks truly anywhere (folder for plane time)
“free” calendar reminders
Inbox Zero is a myth
Folders aplenty
@ folders
Two minute rule
One read rule (if you can’t follow it, don’t check your email)
24 hour rule
(take copy of notepad for show and tell)
Pen and paper always (Evernote for conferences sometimes)
Transfer the checkboxes
Scan and archive the notes
Block time
Nights off
Always have something to do with you
Meetings – have an agenda, start on time, question recurring meetings, huddles instead
Pen and paper
Moleskine
AquaNotes
Dragon Dictation
Dial2Do
Smartsheet
Daily Do List
Social tools – Hootsuite, Buffer
Contactually
LinkedIn Contacts