New Successful Large Account Management : How to Hold Onto Your Most Important Customers and Turn Them into Long Term Assets

Stephen E Heiman has worked in sales development for over 30 years. In the 1970s, as an IBM national account salesman, he increased sales by over 35 per cent and was in the top 5 per cent for total sales and percentage quota. He continued his success at Kepner-Tregoe as Director of Marketing and at North American Van Lines where, in four years as executive vice president, he increased sales and profits by 36 per cent.

In 1978 Stephen E Heiman joined partner Robert B Miller in the company that became Miller Heiman, Inc. Heiman retired in 1988 as MHI president and CEO; he then served as the company's chairman of the board.

Tad Tuleja is staff writer at Miller Heiman Inc, and has co-written five MHI books, including the original Strategic Selling (published by Kogan Page). Among his nearly 30 other books is Beyond the Bottom Line, a study of business ethics.

From 1987 to 1991, Tad Tuleja directed the School of Management writing programme at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He has also completed a PhD in anthropology at the University of Austin.