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		<title><![CDATA[Moving from Selling to Account Management]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[To succeed in key account management, sales staff need to change their role and their objective. Instead of pursuing short-term profit, they must concentrate on managing customer relationships and understanding the customer's whole business. Account managers have two important roles—account support and account development. Successful account management requires a wide...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2007 12:09:46 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Managing Key Relationships; Key Account Management]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=131897]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Businesses will increasingly be less able to sustain revenues and maximize profits unless they adopt specialized relationship techniques to maximize their intimacy with their most important customers and business partners. This article explains how managing key relationships, a practical program addresses commonly occurring issues of low levels of customer responsiveness,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2003 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Sales Productivity Challenge]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=95807]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Researches indicate that earlier the focus of sales organizations was on maximizing sales. However, today, organizations are emphasizing more on enhancing sales productivity. Today, organizations not only focus on ‘what' they sell, but also ‘how' they sell a particular product. Hence, organizations are devising various methods to enhance their sales...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2003 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Is it Time to Concentrate on Sales Productivity?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=61921]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Sales productivity may be a new concept for many distributor executives. "Sales" is easy to understand, and "productivity" is pretty clear, but when those two words are combined the combination becomes a bit vague. What exactly is sales productivity, and why should you be concerned about it? This all is...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Jan 2000 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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