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What is the Difference Between Account Management and Sales?

What is the Difference Between Account Management and Sales?

On the surface, account management and sales have a similar set of goals: build strong relationships with clients and increase profitable revenue.

Both functions are important in order for your organization to be successful, but they require two different skill sets:

  • Sales
  • Account Management

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What is Sales?

Most of us know what the role of a salesperson includes. 

  • A sales rep is typically responsible for prospecting to find new clients and meeting their sales quotas by converting prospects into buying customers.

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What is Account Management?

Account management is a client-facing, post-sale role. Once the deal is won, the account manager continues to build a strategic relationship with the customer—ensuring they’re achieving the highest level of satisfaction and advising them on long-term growth strategies.

Account managers keep customer service and customer success top of mind. They also focus on business development and growing accounts through upselling, account management training, and cross-selling opportunities.

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Are the Two Roles Ever Combined?

Both sales and account management are critical roles, but not every company will have a dedicated team of account managers. Depending on the size of your company and sales force, the two roles may be combined.

Even if your sales team is responsible for strategic account management, it’s important to understand the different skills required so that both roles can be executed successfully.

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Skills a Sales Representative Needs for Success

A strong sales representative will typically have a hunter” mentality & should have the skills to move a prospect through each stage of the sales process:

  • Prospecting: self-management & persistence is key
  • Developing rapport: a rep should be able to identify a buyer’s behavior style & tailor their communication to match
  • Questioning: asking open-ended questions to uncover a prospect’s wants and needs.
  • Influencing: a sales rep must have strong product knowledge and demonstrate how the benefits align with the buyer’s wants & needs
  • Closing: a salesperson must feel confident asking for the sale

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Skills an Account Manager Needs for Success

The role of an account manager requires more of a “farmer” mentality.

Account management training emphasizes the following skills needed to be successful:

  • Relationship building: this requires communicating effectively and taking a consultative, buyer-focused approach with all client interactions
  • Prioritization: AM's should be happy to help their clients, but they must understand which accounts to prioritize in order to maximize the revenue.
  • Long-term thinking: AM’s must focus on building strategic and long-term relationships and defending their accounts from competitive encroachment

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Conclusion

Both Account Management teams and Sales teams have the end goal of increasing revenue, but the paths they use to get there can be very different.

Whether your business has a dedicated team of account managers or you’re relying on your sales reps to fulfill both roles, you should be sure your people have the skills necessary to build and maintain long-term relationships with key clients.

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