Successful Large Account Mgmt

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Summary: Proven to be effective in real businesses
Review: 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+.

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Summary: Managing your largest, most important accounts
Review: In most businesses, 5 percent of the accounts bring in over 50 percent of the revenue. The Large Account Management Process (LAMP), explained in this book, shows how to manage and grow these critical accounts. Uniquely customer-oriented, LAMP explains how to "move up the buy-sell hierarchy" by positioning yourself with senior people in the buying organization and delivering the corporate results that matter most to them. An essential guide for any company seeking customer partnerships.

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Summary: This is a must have!! EXCELLENT BOOK!
Review: In this age of consolidation, big companies keep getting bigger. For suppliers, losing any large account can be at least dramatic or at worst devastating. Large Account Management Process (LAMP) from Miller Heiman presents a logical, team friendly method of knowing how your company is positiioned in your large accounts, and what needs to be done to maintain or improve that position. Highly recommended.

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Summary: Building Strategic Relationships
Review: In this age of consolidation, big companies keep getting bigger. For suppliers, losing any large account can be at least dramatic or at worst devastating. Large Account Management Process (LAMP) from Miller Heiman presents a logical, team friendly method of knowing how your company is positiioned in your large accounts, and what needs to be done to maintain or improve that position. Highly recommended.

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

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Summary: LAMP - An Usefull guide to Account Planning
Review: 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.

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Summary: This is a must have!! EXCELLENT BOOK!
Review: 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!