After-Sales & Account Management

B2 · Upper-intermediate1 hr 13 minBusiness EnglishLesson 7 of 8 · Outline

Aims

Goal: keep and grow your accounts with three conversations — the value check-in, the QBR opening, and the early-renewal opener.

The lesson, stage by stage

  1. Warm up5 min

    Warm-up: The sale after the sale

    2 warm-up questions

  1. Reading10 min

    Reading: What a client judges after the sale

    Read a 158-word text about What a client judges after the sale

  2. Vocabulary8 min

    Vocabulary: Account Management Vocabulary

    7 items

  3. Framework6 min

    Framework: The Account Heartbeat

    The Account Heartbeat, 4 steps

  4. Reading10 min

    Reading: Model messages that keep accounts

    Read a 329-word text about Model messages that keep accounts

  5. Practice7 min

    Practice: Fix the Account Management Emails

    Error-correction exercise, 5 items

  6. Practice7 min

    Practice: Complete the Account Management Phrases

    Gap-fill exercise, 5 items

  7. Dialogue10 min

    Dialogue: Quarterly Business Review

    Role-play: You're conducting a quarterly business review with a client who has been using your platform for six months. Your goals are to review performance, gather feedback, and explore upselling. (9 lines)

  8. Discussion10 min

    Discussion: Your mission: the 2-minute QBR opening

    3 discussion questions

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Target vocabulary

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retentionupsellcross-sellrenewalsatisfaction surveytouchpointloyalty

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