Professional Sales News

Avention, maker of OneSource® Solutions for smarter business insights, today announced the availability of its OneSource ABM solution, the only solution to provide the comprehensive foundational elements for any effective ABM strategy: the data and account insights to support selection of the right accounts and development of rich target account profiles.

Ian Moyse, recently named ‘Sales Director of the Year’, has been appointed UK Sales Director at Axios Systems.Ian will lead the UK growth strategy for Axios, which provides IT Service Management (ITSM) for large enterprises across the world, including British Airways, FedEx Express and The Scottish Parliament.

The sales and marketing functions are increasingly converging, with lead generation now frequently arising from digital promotional campaigns, and the opportunities for tried and tested consultative sales techniques diminishing in the face of scarce customer attention and availability, as well as a plethora of readily accessible comparative product information. To take part in this process, salespeople need to understand and interact with customers via multiple channels, participating in social media in collaboration with marketing to influence purchasing decisions and convert contacts to sales.

Landlocked Cannock may not have many associations with the sea, but a major employer in the town has secured a £38million contract with one of the UK’s largest port groups.

Sales guru Neil Rackham is internationally renowned for ground-breaking research which identifies the scientific approach needed for successful selling. He has advised some of the largest companies in the United States. His book, SPIN Selling is ranked number one in the Top 10 ‘How To Sell’ Books Of All Time.*

You run a business. You love what you do. But you dread selling. Good news. Sasudi has launched. Sasudi is the only online sales resource that’s designed to give you all the sales training, inspiration, support and direction you need to grow your business. It will get you motivated and give you the edge when you set out to win new business.

A ‘Brexit’ in the upcoming EU referendum might negatively impact the UK contractor arena, according to CXC Global.

One of the best Henny Youngman one-liners goes something like this: “I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places.” If you’re just starting out in sales, you’re about to go to those places, you just don’t know it. Selling is not like other jobs. Let’s say, for example, you’re an accountant. You go to your job, you get everything 99.9% right every day, you succeed.

When I started in my B2B sales career at 23, I had some confidence under my belt because I had successfully sold hundreds of handmade holiday ornaments as a kid, run a lemonade stand seasonally, and sold women’s clothing in my grandmother’s high-end clothing store. It’s taken years for me to realize that my foundation was set for professional selling – I didn’t have that lack of confidence thing that I do still run into when onboarding or talking with new sales reps.

Congratulations! You’ve recently embarked on a career in sales, which can be an incredibly rewarding, interesting, and fulfilling path. However, you are joining the sales profession at a very interesting time and old approaches and techniques will not serve you as well as they did for salespeople in past years. Before we look at your first 90 days, let’s look at three major recent shifts in the sales landscape.