Courses
How We Help ABM Practitioners
The ABM Graduate School program is composed of required courses and a selection of electives. ABM marketers can earn advanced designations to add to their professional credentials when they complete the program requirements. The required courses cover advanced core topics, while electives provide a selection of topics to be able to get deeper knowledge where you need it. Customization of elective courses is possible to integrate your own tools, best practices and ABM roles. New courses are added quarterly.
One-to-One Deep Dive: Strategies & Tactics
Course · 11 Lessons
A practical, execution-focused deep dive on actionable One-to-One strategies across Relationships, Reputation and Revenue, and identifying the best One-to-One tactics that drive your strategy from the field. Includes considerations for both adopting one-to-one for the first time or moving from one-to-few.
One-to-Few Deep Dive: Strategies & Tactics
Course · 11 Lessons
A practical, execution-focused deep dive on actionable One-to-Few strategies across Relationships, Reputation and Revenue, and identifying the best One-to-Few tactics that drive your strategy from the ield. Includes considerations for both adopting one-to-few for the first time or moving from one-to-one.
Recruiting the C-Suite: Strategies & Tactics
Course · 9 Lessons
With over 16 C-Suite roles now in play across enterprise organizations, getting their attention has never been harder. Learn relationship development approaches that drive successful connections based on c-suite orientation and executive engagement strategies and tactics.
Developing a Strategy Using Research Tools
Course · 8 Lessons
Defining the approach and steps to develop true ABM strategy at an account or cluster level, rather than defaulting to tactics first. This course breaks down account and industry research tools and delivers a repeatable, actionable strategic development process to ensure clear strategy that is account-aligned. Customizable to your own organization’s toolset.
Building Engaging Client Experiences
Course · 7 Lessons
This is a how-to course that lays out a pathway from strategy to relevant tactical design of ABM Flight plans that create stakeholder “experiences” rather than individual campaigns or activities. Customizable to your own organization’s toolset.
ABM Strategy Integration with Flight Plans & Pipeline Analysis
Course · 8 Lessons
While ABM is a “long game”, this course lays out a better way to break down pipeline that integrates with the ABM process to avoid pipeline gap emergencies and manage pipeline pressure while building out relationships, reputation, and sales demands for current quarter support.
Best Practices: ABM Showcase
Course · 12 Lessons
Custom course showcasing your most successful ABM program(s) or campaign(s) for an individual account or a cluster of accounts. Focus is on pulling out the “how-to” for enablement of all your ABMers to leverage the learnings within their own accounts.
ABM Spotlight with Account Team
Course · 11 Lessons
Custom course that puts the spotlight on your organization’s most successful ABMer + Account Team partnership, to uncover the mechanics and approaches that grow deep collaboration and cooperation to drive joint success. Focus is to leverage learnings across your entire team to raise the bar on ABM partnership.
ABM Innovation
Course · 8 Lessons
Where is practical and implementable innovation happening in ABM as a practice? This course focuses not only on AI, but also on other approaches showing success in the field – high tech, low tech, and in between. Includes discussion of where ABM might be headed in the future.
Integrated Strategy: ABM Sales Account Planning
Course · 11 Lessons
As an ABM program matures, the planning function for Marketing and Sales also needs to evolve. Moving from observer, to facilitator, to owning a seat at the strategy table is crucial to maximizing the benefits and returns of ABM as a co-driver of revenue.
Leveraging Learnings from Pursuit Accounts
Course · 8 Lessons
Pursuit programs concentrate on a small set of the organization’s most strategic accounts to drive revenue where there is great potential to advance the business. There are strategies and approaches that can be leveraged and applied across other non-pursuit accounts to drive growth across the entire program.
Multi-channel, Multi touch Marketing – Deep Dive
Course
Defining multi-channel approaches in an ABM context needs careful consideration. This course includes a comparison of multi versus omni channels, top performing channels for ABM, multi-channel best practices, and tips to help evolve to a Multi-channel, multi-touch approach.
Building a C-Suite Engagement Plan
Course
Utilizing current C-Suite best practices this course shows how to build an embedded C-SUITE engagement plan to ensure a relevant approach for this specific audience. Includes both internal and external ideas, and sales enablement options.
Industries We Serve
Fortune 500
Marketing and Sales strategies across a range of sectors.
Manufacturers
Engaged with both traditional and innovative organizations.
Non-profits
Strategies to engage donors, sponsors, partners and volunteers.
Technology Companies
Extensive background working with hardware, software, SaaS and startup companies.
Healthcare
Focus on both provider and payer organizations.
Insurance
Experience with life, health, and supplemental insurance and workplace benefits.