
What about the accounts already on your books? Current customers trust your company-you’ve delivered for them once already. Finding accounts that are ready to close within your ideal timeframe help keep revenue targets on track and save your sales reps from getting dragged into months of stalled negotiations.

Spending five hours researching and personalizing an outreach strategy for a high-value client will seem like nothing if they sign up and stay with you for a couple of years! Finding prospects looking for a long-term partner will make the time invested in TAS worthwhile. The effort is worth it because prospects are more likely to convert and turn into paying customers. Each account is handpicked and more likely to convert because its budget, needs, and ICP match your target market. Target account selling takes a long time-it’s not just cold calling the first 50 numbers in a random list. You need to check a lot of boxes for an account to fit your targeting strategy so you don't waste time on a dead lead. They may be with one of your competitors and looking to change products or a startup with a budget that can afford your products. The prospect's company is in a certain industry, and their employee numbers match your ICP. This strategy usually focuses on finding accounts that are:

Target account selling-TAS for short-is when sales reps get into the weeds of a prospect’s needs.Ī target account selling process for a sales team means gathering high-value, well-matched prospects into a list and building specific, targeted outreach proposals just for them. You basically custom-tailor your sales approach to fit their buying process. The sales team is then able to target the highest potential leads in their pipeline, and dedicate more time and resources towards closing them, rather than a more evenly distributed shotgun approach which leads every potential customer through the same process.

This allows for a hyper-personalized sales approach. It’s all about picking the right prospects, researching them (and then researching some more), and crafting messages that directly address their pain points.

Salespeople can use target account selling to find qualified prospects who are a good fit for their product and increase their chances of turning them into paying customers. Target account selling is a B2B sales strategy that identifies prospects based on specific factors such as deal value, ideal customer persona, industry, revenue, pain points, buying signals, and budget, to then focus more personalized sales resources on these highly qualified leads.
