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A unique location dedicated exclusively to the profession of sales and our primary objective from day one, has been to redefine the parameters governing sales team performance. Our contributors have been carefully chosen and each one brings a unique element of expertise and experience, which allows us to provide a constant supply of “best of breed” resources, all refreshed daily.

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Top Sales Magazine May 2026 Out on the 5th

Featured Posts

Top Mastermind Groups for CEOs, 2026 List

Joe Galvin - 7 May 2026
Recently, our research team studied the top mastermind groups for CEOs and executive leaders. We analyzed over 40 organizations using...[ read more ]Tweet

Selling Too Soon: How to Build Trust Before the Sale

Mark Hunter - 7 May 2026
On a recent episode of The Sales Hunter Podcast, Mark sat down with Frank Kitchen, CSP, to explore how the...[ read more ]Tweet

The Most Overlooked Lever For Improving Sales Growth

George Brontén - 6 May 2026
When we talk about sales improvement, we often focus on one of these big three: Payroll and compensation, training and...[ read more ]Tweet

Customers Don’t Care About Your Intentions – They Care About Results

Shep Hyken - 6 May 2026
Do customers care about your intentions or results in customer service? Answer: Customers don’t care about your intentions. They care...[ read more ]Tweet

How to Sell by Addressing Customer Risk Instead of Product Features

Mark Hunter - 6 May 2026
Buyers don’t fear missing features. They fear making a bad decision. Selling today is not about rattling off features, it’s...[ read more ]Tweet

5 Succession Planning Strategies to Close the Leadership Gap in Your Organization

Meridith Elliott Powell - 5 May 2026
In the ArticleOrganizations are facing a growing leadership gap driven by three forces: experienced leaders retiring, entry-level roles disappearing, and...[ read more ]Tweet

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Featured Books

FOCUSED: A Leadership Discipline For Sales Managers Under Pressure

Steven Rosen
FOCUSED: A Leadership Discipline For Sales Managers Under Pressure by Steven Rosen The Leadership Discipline That Protects Performance from Distraction Most sales organizations do not lose performance suddenly. They lose it gradually as attention fragments and priorities blur. Calendars fill with urgency. Leaders stay busy. Standards quietly soften. By the time results [ More Here ]

The First Meeting Differentiator

Lee Salz
The First Meeting Differentiator by lee Salz Traditional discovery meetings must die! Today's buyer demands it. They no longer tolerate one-sided sales interrogations that serve the seller but provide no value to them. If they agree to a meeting with you, they expect something more—a consultation experience [ More Here ]

The Framemaking Sale: Sell More by Boosting Customer Confidence

Brent Adamson & Karl Schmidt
The Framemaking Sale: Sell More by Boosting Customer Confidence by Brent Adamson and Karl Schmidt Business-to-business commerce is broken. Today’s customers find themselves overwhelmed by too many options, too much information, and too many obstacles. The result is often an inability to execute any but the safest of purchase decisions, frequently resulting in no decision [ More Here ]
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Featured Contributors

Meshell Baker

Meshell Baker Meshell Baker an Authentic Selling Crusader and the Owner/Founder of Xtrordinary, Inc. a company established to help business owners and sales leaders reimagine, revitalize and rehumanize their salespeople and sales ... [More Here ]

Tom Williams

Tom Williams Tom Williams is a former senior executive with general management and sales and marketing expertise with major health care organizations. For 25 years he consistently built shareholder value by selling ... [More Here ]

Bob Apollo

Bob Apollo Bob is a Founding Fellow of the Institute of Sales Professionals, a regular contributor to the International Journal of Sales Transformation and Top Sales World and the Founder and Chief Outcomes Officer of Inflexion-Point Strategy ... [More Here ]
Jonathan Farrington 1951 - 2021 - Memorial Page

Latest Interviews, Videos & Podcasts

How AI Brings Customer Delight by Design with John Kim

Shep Hyken
Shep Hyken Trust, Proactivity, and AI in Customer Service Shep interviews John Kim, CEO of Delight.ai. He talks about moving beyond simple automation to create personalized, proactive interactions that build trust and [ Listen Here ]

Think Like a Sales Practitioner with Robert Herbst

Paul Fuller at Membrain
Paul Fuller Drawing on more than 40 years in sales and the life-changing mountaineering accident that led him to start his company, Rob explains why sales is not about pushing products, but [ Listen Here ]

How to Break the Cycle of Poor Sales Leadership

Mark Hunter
Mark Hunter On the latest Sales Hunter Podcast, Mark welcomed Tim Ohai, author of “The Zen of Strategic Execution,” and a trusted advisor to global leaders at Shell, Microsoft, Walmart, and Workday. [ Listen Here ]

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