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Account Profiling with Shadow
The intentions and ideas of what target account planning is about are valid - they just take too long, cost too much and are fraught with assumptions and biases. Why wouldn’t you use a GenAI tool (like Shadow) to automate research, gather insights, spot synergies, help craft the messaging, and join all the dots for you. Shadow will reduce the time you spend doing this by around 90%, and frankly do it better! How so?
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Time – (is money). Its hard to get a statistically valid estimate of the amount of time companies spend doing account planning, and as we all know anyway, there are three types of a lies – “lies, damn lies and statistics.” We know we spend hours doing this across multiple people (per account). Even if we use some resources sitting offshore, using a specialized GenAI, like Shadow, will still save you time, money and produce better, results.
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Boredom – most of this type of work is a real drag. The uncomfortable truth is people don’t like it, and as the time goes by the quality of their work declines. The explosion in internet information has actually made it worse, ‘cos there’s so much information out there, and God forbid we miss something.
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Bias - Teams will sit around and identify their USP's & ICP's (biased), then make superficial connections. A well tuned, specialist GenAI like Shadow is incapable of those types of biases. It'll tell you where the synergies really exist between your two organizations, and they're probably not where you think they are!
And now the hanging pitch:
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Can’t I just use Chat GPT? – Chat GPT can neither get to the detail of the target company nor can it match those details up to your most contextually relevant USP’s. A specialized Gen AI (which is correctly tuned) can.