<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Postern blog</title><link>https://posternhq.com/blog</link><atom:link href="https://posternhq.com/blog.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><description>Essays on expansion revenue, account management and governance, by Team Postern.</description><language>en-gb</language><item><title>The 12 facts an account manager should be able to answer without opening a spreadsheet</title><link>https://posternhq.com/blog/account-manager-12-facts-without-a-spreadsheet</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://posternhq.com/blog/account-manager-12-facts-without-a-spreadsheet</guid><pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Team Postern</author><description>An account plan is not a template. It is twelve concrete, checkable facts that separate an account manager who can price and close an expansion this week from one who has to "find out and get back to you".</description></item><item><title>The post-sale customer journey, mapped as revenue moments</title><link>https://posternhq.com/blog/post-sale-journey-as-revenue-moments</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://posternhq.com/blog/post-sale-journey-as-revenue-moments</guid><pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Team Postern</author><description>Customer journey maps show stages and feelings. Useful for CX, useless for the person who owns the number. Here is the post-sale journey drawn the way an account manager needs it — as a sequence of moments where revenue is created, protected or lost.</description></item><item><title>Where an account manager's week actually goes: the five productivity leaks</title><link>https://posternhq.com/blog/where-the-farming-week-goes</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://posternhq.com/blog/where-the-farming-week-goes</guid><pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Team Postern</author><description>Account managers are hired to grow a book and spend most of the week doing something else. Here are the five leaks we see in almost every team, what each one costs, and which ones are process problems wearing a people costume.</description></item><item><title>CSM vs account manager: two jobs, one customer, and who owns the money</title><link>https://posternhq.com/blog/csm-vs-am-who-owns-the-money</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://posternhq.com/blog/csm-vs-am-who-owns-the-money</guid><pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Team Postern</author><description>Customer success and account management are constantly conflated, occasionally merged, and frequently at war. The confusion is not about titles. It is about whether commercial ownership of the installed base has been assigned at all.</description></item><item><title>Your discount approval policy is a suggestion</title><link>https://posternhq.com/blog/your-discount-approval-policy-is-a-suggestion</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://posternhq.com/blog/your-discount-approval-policy-is-a-suggestion</guid><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Team Postern</author><description>We audited our own product's approval control and found four separate ways past it, every one reachable by an ordinary account manager with a browser. Here is what "the policy is binding" actually has to mean, and how to test whether yours is.</description></item><item><title>Why expansion revenue is the growth engine nobody staffs properly</title><link>https://posternhq.com/blog/why-expansion-is-the-growth-engine-nobody-staffs</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://posternhq.com/blog/why-expansion-is-the-growth-engine-nobody-staffs</guid><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Team Postern</author><description>Most B2B SaaS companies say they are “land and expand”. Look at the org chart and the comp plan and you find land, land, land. Here is why expansion is structurally under-resourced, and what changes when you treat it as a first-class motion.</description></item><item><title>Account whitespace analysis is a data problem before it is a sales problem</title><link>https://posternhq.com/blog/whitespace-is-a-data-problem-first</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://posternhq.com/blog/whitespace-is-a-data-problem-first</guid><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Team Postern</author><description>Everyone agrees the installed base is full of unsold product. Almost nobody can say how much, where, or what it is worth. That is not because the sales team is not trying. It is because the data was never structured to answer the question.</description></item></channel></rss>