SAMA is pleased to open the 2010 SAMA Annual Survey of Current Trends & Practices in Strategic Account Management (SAM), a cornerstone of the organization's mission to inform our membership and the larger SAM community about the advancement and performance of strategic account management programs and practices at leading B2B companies around the world. This year's study is conducted in partnership with Walker, a leading research and consulting firm, and is open for participation by SAMA members and nonmembers.

Now open for participation through February 9, 2010

Whether your company has a beginning or established strategic / global customer management organization, we invite your SAM professionals–management executives and national/global account managers–to contribute their responses.

You qualify to participate if you lead, manage or support your company's strategic accounts in one of the following roles:

• Strategic account manager (SAMs) or equivalent
• Manager of SAMs
• Strategic accounts program director or equivalent
• Senior executive sponsor
• Chief sales officer, Senior VP of Sales, etc.
• Other functional role supporting a strategic account or the SAM organization

Broad participation is vital to the adequate collecting of data from SAM organizations worldwide, whether they operate on a regional, national, multinational or global basis.

Consultants to the SAM profession should urge their clients to participate, whether they are SAMA members or not. All qualifying individuals are welcome to participate and will receive a free report.


If you have not received a link to participate, or if you would like to submit a colleague's name, please fill out the following information. We will review the submissions and generate an invitation on or before January 26th 2010.

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• a free copy of the full report
• an opportunity to benchmark where SAM programs and practices are today, in their development and performance; and, how strategic account managers are practicing and performing in their jobs.
• and, possibly win a cool prize!! (See details below)

At the end of February, SAMA will randomly draw three respondents as winners of the following awesome products:

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