Sales Enablement

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Four Trends in Business-to-Business Sales

Dave Stein

Years ago I heard this aphorism: “The only thing that never changes is that things always change.” This is certainly the case in business-to-business selling. Successful salespeople anticipate changes in the market by watching trends and adapting where appro... More »

Survey Says: Only 13 Percent of Sales Conversations Use Whiteboards

Findings from a recent Corporate Visions survey reveal a lack of visual storytelling techniques among marketing and sales teams—specifically, that only 13 percent of salespeople use an interactive writing surface such as a whiteboard to support their customer conv... More »

Sales Training RFPs: What You Need to Know

Here's a closer look at sales training RFP—from both the buy-side and the supply-side perspectives. More »

STATE OF SALES TRAINING 2012

The purpose of ASTD’s The State of Sales Training, 2012 is to provide insight into sales training efforts within various organizations so that members of the sales training community can tailor their programs to help each sales team member reach his or her full po... More »

Time to Replace Your Sales Methodology? Probably Not.

Jason Jordan

Let’s pretend that your sales force has a specific sales methodology that it deployed three years ago.  And during those three years, sales results have not improved the way you had expected.  You decide to conduct ‘refresher’ training for th... More »