Delving into Digital Marketing?: How a Shared Knowledge Base Can Help You Survive the Vendor Shuffle

Thursday, May 1, 2014

How a Shared Knowledge Base Can Help You Survive the Vendor Shuffle

Probably the only thing that will change more than the version of the software or hardware you’re using at work is the sales representative who sold it to you, and sometimes the service team that supports you. Corporate layoffs, mergers and acquisitions, reorganizations and retirements create new challenges for businesses that require relationships and ongoing communications with their vendors and account managers.

Each new account team member needs to be educated on your business, products, processes, contracts and the people responsible for them. Such a transition at the end of a critical quarter or technology rollout can sabotage success and set you back for months.

One way to ease the onboarding of your next account manager is to organize a shared knowledge base in a way that can help them hit the ground running.

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