The New Successful Large Account Management: Maintaining and Growing Your Most Important Assets -- Your Customers

By Robert B. Miller, Stephen E. Heiman, Tad Tuleja

Book Overview

For the Accounts You Can't Afford to Lose: The Strategies that Will Keep Your Customers Coming Back Whether your company has $50,000 or $5 million in sales, chances are that at least half of your revenue comes from a few crucial accounts. What does it take to keep them going strong? The authors of The New Strategic Selling and The New Conceptual Selling present a hard-hitting, no-nonsense book of techniques to improve your most important business relationships. Updated with recent examples of actual success stories, this new edition explores how online click speeds have resulted in highly sophisticated customers who expect all services to be done in "real time." Discover: * The Long View: Studying and really understanding your company-and your customer's business-can mean years of selling success * "Lamp" Strategies: Activate a Large Account Management Process strategy to turn your best customers into permanent "external assets" * Trends and Market Forces: Constantly identify and reappraise the conditions that can make your services more crucial than ever * Channels of Communication: The right contacts and communication lines will help you make key changes-before it's too late

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0446694665
• ISBN13: 9780446694667
• Release Date: April 2005
• Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

One of the Best Advices Ever on Account Management

The issue with most Key Account Managers out there is that they are more focused on maintaining the "relationship" with 1 or 2 players in that account, and then let it grow organically. LAMP provides the insights on how you can not only defend the account, but also grow it faster by focusing on building strategic relationships with the diverse different players in your account, and feel the pulse of what will be the future business directions that this company will be having, and how you can capitalise on that. LAMP is multi-dimensional as it handles relationship vs. business; as well as defense vs. growth. A good companion to this book will be Major Account Sales Strategy

LAMP - An Usefull guide to Account Planning

LAMP is the best book I have read about Key/Large Account Planning. Most salesreps and hates the planning process and struggle with their plans. This down to earth approach helps a salesrep to organize his work in developing his account plans in a straightforward and pragmatic way. Instead of focusing on history, LAMP is targeting the future and helps you to align your resources through action plans.

This is a must have!! EXCELLENT BOOK!

The first chapter of this book was like reading an unauthorized biography of all my short comings in managing my largest accounts. Even as a top five performer, I still felt like I was flying by the seat of my pants. This book set out a course for improvement that has changed my professional career forever. If you manage large global accounts this book should be your bible. Mine is still drying out from massive highlighter use!

Proven to be effective in real businesses

Answers the question "how should I be working with field sales."   Contains tables, worksheets, lists, and step-by-step approaches with examples.   The problem will be getting an entire sales and marketing team to adopt it. Even if they don't, after reading this book, you may find you relate to your sales force in a different, more productive manner. The only reservation I have about this book is that for the concept to be truly effective, an entire work team must complete the training described in the book. I know from personal experience that, when a work team completes the training, it works, and works well. The book, as well as it may be written, cannot substitute for the group training. If it did, I would rate it a 10+.

An eye-opener!!! It's an action-oriented book.

LAMP helped me see how critical it is to take care of our large accounts. I realized that our survival as a company depends on them. Right now, we are taking the necessary action to apply the concepts that we have learned from the book.