Grow key accounts

Optimizing Account-Based Marketing for long-term client relationships

Ideal for:

Account-based strategies remain a top priority for senior leaders in today’s competitive landscape. Our latest Client Buying Index data reveals that ABM has consistently ranked as the number one marketing focus for the past three years.

This data conveys three key insights: ABM is a permanent fixture; it is continually evolving; and not all ABM initiatives yield the same level of success. Organizations must prioritize effective account-based strategies to foster deep relationships with key accounts and drive sustainable growth.

  • 30%

    of marketing budgets dedicated to ABM

  • 60%

    plan to increae investment in ABM over the next 12 months

Five steps to key account success

  • 1
    Diagnostic

    Assess process, systems and capabilities, prioritize accounts, and benchmark performance.

  • 2
    Strategy

    Design and right size ABM strategy, together with implementation roadmap and program office.

  • 3
    Enablement

    Develop sales and marketing teams with integrated account development skills.

  • 4
    Execution

    Engage accounts with relevant and consistent experiences, with flight plans, content, and communications.

  • 5
    Value realization

    Optimize key account growth performance across relationships, reputation, and revenue.

Optimize and embed ABM across your business

Use our proven Account-Based Marketing Adoption Framework to evaluate the maturity of your key account programs, understand how they're performing across critical success factors, and prioritize areas for improvement. Together, we can ensure your Account-Based Marketing programs drive market-beating performance.

ABM adoption framework
  • Centrica grey

    The team have played an important role throughout the process of planning, launching and growing Centrica Business Solutions – from helping us initially develop a distinctive market story, through to building targeted vertical propositions, creating high-quality content assets, and delivering tools to enable our teams. Their support has been first-class throughout.

    Simon Farr

    Head of Marketing, Centrica

  • Core HR grey

    The work that we have done together has really helped us elevate the position of marketing, with the board and with the wider group of JML.

    Gaynor Finlay

    Vice President of Marketing, CoreHR  

  • VMware grey

    There are a lot of overnight ABM experts in the industry right now and it short changes the extensive work your subject matter experts have done to understand, strategize, build, execute, and measure ABM programs at scale.

    Christian Lowery

    Global Head of Account-Based Marketing, VMware

  • Oracle grey

    Major account sales is quite a brutal environment, and often people get fairly overwhelmed by that. I was prepared to let them work with me directly with account teams.

    Michael Avis

    Senior Director, EMEA Marketing, Oracle 

  • Salesforce grey

    Momentum is a strategic growth consultancy. They are partners, always bringing additional value to the table with deep knowledge and bringing innovation in their approach.

    Danny Nail

    Global Head of ABM, Salesforce 

Key accounts

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