Tuesday, November 25th, 2025

Personal Branding Tips

This edition focuses on the importance of personal branding in sales. Here are five top tips each for salespeople and their managers. Sales Tips 101 From a salesperson’s perspective Sales Management Tips 101 From a sales manager’s perspective: +


Tuesday, November 25th, 2025

Elevate your selling with personal branding

Q: How have buyers needs and expectations changed recently? A: According to 2023 Challenger research into “How B2B buyers make purchase decisions”, buyers demand compelling insights and “won’t tolerate a meeting that doesn’t engage them and motivate them to action”. Moreover, when the Challenger team asked buyers about their opinions of seller skills in relation to providing a powerful sales… 


Friday, November 21st, 2025

NEWS ROUNDUP

What is workslop? A recent article in Harvard Business Review coins a new term: “workslop” – poor-quality but plausible-looking work created using AI that is not fit for purpose. HBR defines workslop as “AI-generated work content that masquarades as good work but lacks the substance to meaningfully advance a given task”. Research by the BetterUp Labs team, in collaboration with… 


Friday, November 21st, 2025

A new name, an elevated mission

Introducing the Sales Excellence Review After a decade of serving the sales community, the International Journal of Sales Transformation is evolving. With this issue, we proudly preview our new identity: the Sales Excellence Review. We’re raising the bar further, committing to become the premier publication where sales thought leadership and sales science meets commercial reality. This change reflects not just… 


Friday, November 21st, 2025

ISP launches awards to recognise sales professionalism

The Institute of Sales Professionals has launched a new scheme to recognise organisations’ commitment to professionalism in sales. The Investor in Sales Award will celebrate businesses that invest in the development and impact of their sales teams, recognising organisations’ commitment to building and sustaining professional, ethical and high-performing sales teams and culture. ISP managing director Guy Lloyd tells the Journal:… 


Thursday, November 20th, 2025

ISP events 11.4 2025

Details of upcoming events can be found at the Institute of Sales Professionals website. https://www.the-isp.org/events SalesTV.Live – The Early Edition Thanks to a new partnership between the Institute of Sales Professionals and SalesTV.live – the weekly talk show by salespeople, for salespeople – ISP members can now access discussions with sales leaders, innovators, and front-line professionals from across the globe… 


Thursday, November 20th, 2025

Sales competitions 11.4 2025

12th European Sales Competition The European Sales… 


Thursday, November 20th, 2025

Conferences and exhibitions 11.4 2025

Winter AMA Conference The 2026 AMA Winter… 


Tuesday, September 30th, 2025

Conferences and exhibitions 11.2 2025

Key Account Management Forum (KAM Forum) Details… 


Tuesday, September 30th, 2025

Sales competitions 11.3 2025

Northeast Intercollegiate Sales Competition, NISC – Hosted… 


Tuesday, September 30th, 2025

Five key questions a CEO should ask the sales leader/department to optimise revenue performance

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Tuesday, September 30th, 2025

Five key questions a CEO should ask a potential new CRO before hiring

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Tuesday, September 30th, 2025

Five key questions a sales leader should ask the new boss (the CEO) before accepting a CRO role

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Monday, September 29th, 2025

Five ways for B2B companies to support growth in an uncertain world

Geopolitical events and the macroeconomic environment have combined to make the global operating environment significantly trickier recently, which means B2B companies face notable pressures as they seek to adapt and grow. However, companies can “accelerate toward above-market growth” using five “acceleration levers”, according to strategic consultants McKinsey. McKinsey describes these actions as “practical, highimpact approaches that drive measurable results, particularly… 


Monday, September 29th, 2025

Buyers need human salespeople as guides in complex B2B environments to escape preconceptions

In today’s B2B landscape, buyers conduct significant research and vendor comparisons prior to ever contacting a salesperson. At the same time, vendors assume that buyers are likely to be confident in understanding the problems they are trying to solve, which can lead to sellers failing to conduct a robust discovery process once they do get involved. More paradoxically, however, buyers… 


Monday, September 29th, 2025

Consalia opens fast track to sales degree apprenticeship

In collaboration with Middlesex University, Consalia has launched a seamless progression pathway allowing graduates of the Level 4 Sales Executive Apprenticeship to enter directly into the second year of its Level 6 B2B Sales Degree Apprenticeship. The initiative accelerates the route to a full degree, enabling learners to complete the qualification in just two years instead of three, without repeating… 


Monday, September 29th, 2025

Buyers prefer self-service, but choose sellers for key tasks

Buyers favour online self-service tools over sellers when searching for general information and learning new things. However, for buying tasks requiring contextual intelligence, such as determining whether a product or service fits their company’s needs, buyers prefer to seek seller input. That’s according to Alice Walmesley, Director Analyst in the Gartner Sales Practice. “Instead of offering generic information that buyers… 


Monday, September 29th, 2025

Most B2B buyers will prefer human interaction to AI by 2030 – Gartner

While AI-driven solutions offer speed, efficiency, and convenience, especially in the early stages of the sales process, recent analysis suggests that the demand for genuine human engagement is far from diminishing. In fact, by 2030, Gartner predicts that 75% of B2B buyers will prefer sales experiences that prioritise human interaction over AI, prompting organisations to rethink how they structure their… 


Monday, September 29th, 2025

NEWS ROUNDUP

Fix payment failures to boost revenue A 2023 study of subscription-based businesses looking into involuntary churn caused by failed payments found it to be the cause of half of all customer churn. Now, sales and marketing leaders are being urged to pay close attention to the lifetime value of customers rather than focusing exclusively on sales volume. According to Google… 


Monday, September 29th, 2025

Aviso and Consalia partner to smooth agentic AI adoption

Agentic AI-powered revenue execution platform, Aviso announced a strategic partnership with UK sales business school Consalia on 16 September. The initiative aims to address a critical challenge facing chief revenue officers: sales teams struggling to effectively embed AI tools and autonomous agents into workflows and company culture. “AI succeeds when it aligns with human psychology, not when it fights it,”…