Modern Sales management is not only limited to helping organizations achieve its business goals but it also includes other functions like enhancing knowledge about both internal and external environments that constitute of customers, suppliers, distributors, employees and other people and negotiating with customers to sell the company’s products profitably. The organization’s sales team can play these roles effectively only when other departments support them. All these roles are interdependent and the success of one depends on the success of the other. The sales manager forms the backbone and plays a multitude of responsibilities.

Sales management involves a plethora of tools for accelerated growth and sustenance. Sales enablement is one such tool that indicates “sales effectiveness” or “sales readiness.” Traditionally, this tool helped in bridging the gap between the sales and the marketing departments within an organization. Sales enablement Now it provides the necessary tools, technologies, and information for a sales force to succeed. Another technical strategy is Sales Knowledge Management. Knowledge creates awareness that contribute to growth. The objective of this tool is to make vast amount of useful and available knowledge accessible to the sales people in accomplishing their jobs successfully. Sales training is an ongoing process, which enriches the intellect of the sales force, and establishes their confidence in the product they sell. Without proper sales training, objection handling poses a threat and leads to declining sales.

At the start of this latest recession as many companies battle for survival, sales training has been brought into sharp focus. One leading manufacturer has reacted with drastic cost reductions alongside a reorganisation of the sales force. They have created a distributor training program.within their sales team development system. With this they succeeded in bringing their circulation trading partners closer to the company and in reinforcing their stronghold in the market.

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There are two alternatives in sales training programs.  are sales training programs which have been recorded, and may be played back over the World Wide Web. are those programs which are delivered by such live webinar technologies as WebEx and GoToMeeting.com. The third, hybrid mode, is to intersperse online recorded training with several online recorded sessions where discussions, projects, or general working sessions are incorporated.