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Thursday, March 21st, 2019
Shame and stigma surrounding sales is a key contributor to poor UK productivity, according to a poll conducted by Censuswide. Nearly a third (31.1%) of UK managers believe that “sales shame” is negatively impacting their business growth, the survey of 1,000 managers found. In addition, more than a quarter (27%) of managers also believe that this sales shame is holding…
Thursday, March 21st, 2019
The Journal is proud to be part of an increasingly professional global sales community. Here at the International Journal of Sales Transformation we are celebrating our fifth year of publishing. Over the time since we launched back in 2015, we have been able to chart a quite noticeable upturn in the professionalism of the sales community both here in the…
Thursday, March 21st, 2019
To boost productivity it’s vital for companies to embrace an “everybody sells” approach and to harness the “hidden sales force” that is an energised customer service department. The UK is suffering a productivity crisis. Start-up companies and total early-stage entrepreneurial activity are still booming, but the number of high-growth companies in the UK has been steadily declining in the past…
Tuesday, November 13th, 2018
It’s all change for 2018, and much of it for the better. Next year will be a big one for the sales profession globally. As an international publication with a global readership – we already have readers in over 30 countries – we see evidence of a new sales professionalism developing around the world. Here in the UK, 2018 will…
Friday, September 21st, 2018
A new resource to help you be agile and resilient. The whole sales world is evolving. There’s disruption in the marketplace. Change is unremitting and relentless. It keeps gathering pace. Our customers require increasing attention and sophistication in our approach. Every sales situation is contextually unique. There are greater and greater demands on our time. Needs and solutions can sometimes…
Thursday, May 17th, 2018
The nature of professional selling has transformed profoundly over the past few decades, resulting in a fundamental redefinition of the role of the sales force. Drawing on a study comprising interview data from 37 senior sales leaders, sales consultants and prominent sales academics from the US, UK and other European countries, I synthesise three key drivers for change and identify…
Saturday, January 28th, 2017
The Association of Professional Sales announced in February that it has launched a full suite of sales qualifications to represent the skills of salespeople at every stage of their career. Ben Turner, APS general manager, told the Journal: “We are putting in place the means for salespeople to demonstrate that they are professional people who are learning, and being assessed…
Saturday, January 28th, 2017
2017 looks set to be a landmark on the road to sales professionalism. Could 2017 be a turning point for the sales profession? There are a number of factors that play into this question. First of all, we can see inescapable signs of the growing importance of sales roles within a wider business context. Equally, there is an increasing emphasis…
Thursday, April 7th, 2016
The ISMM announced during the recent 2016 BESMA Sales Summit and BESMA awards ceremony at London’s Grosvenor House Hotel that it is seeking to rebrand “in order to provide an overall more effective offering for its members, including enhanced benefits, greater networking opportunities nationally, together with broader education and training”. A message posted on the ISMM website on 22 March…
Thursday, April 7th, 2016
Long popular in the United States, sales competitions are now beginning to take off in Europe. Co-hosted by Haaga-Helia and Turku Universities of Applied Sciences. The second European Sales Competition takes place in Helsinki, Finland on 1 June. “The aim of the competition is to raise the appreciation of professional sales work, to learn the concept of selling at a…
Thursday, April 7th, 2016
Are we on the verge of breakthrough? Will sales become a destination career? Could sales as a career choice be turning a corner in terms of its popularity with undergraduates? If so, this is good news, because selling is actually the number one destination for business school students. The organisers of this year’s Sales Educators’ Academy Conference at Aston Business…
Wednesday, July 1st, 2015
We asked business thought-leaders from different sectors…
Tuesday, April 7th, 2015
Sales is evolving into a true profession as corporations, practitioners and academics combine in the search for excellence. Welcome to the very first issue of the International Journal of Sales Transformation. As salespeople, managers and leaders, we are rightly proud of the fact that we are in the front line of business, creating and facilitating exchanges of value and aiming…
