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Featured Posts
5 Powerful Lessons The US Hockey Team Can Teach Us All About Uncertainty
Meridith Elliott Powell - 25 February 2026I don't know about you, but I am one of the millions of Americans who have never watched a hockey...[ read more ]Tweet
Stay Here: The Now is Where Complex Sales Actually Happen
George Brontén - 25 February 2026I saw a clip recently of a 100-year-old man saying these simple words: “Yesterday is history, tomorrow a mystery, today...[ read more ]Tweet
This is How Your Customers Think About Your Customer Service In 2026
Shep Hyken - 25 February 2026This article answers the question: What do customers think about customer service in 2026? I’m very excited to release the 2026 State of...[ read more ]Tweet
6 Questions to Understand Your Customer: Part II
Mark Hunter - 25 February 2026Success in sales starts with your Ideal Customer Profile. If you want to stop chasing the wrong prospects and begin...[ read more ]Tweet
Making Great Customer and Employee Relationships Stick with Stephen Baer
Shep Hyken - 24 February 2026This episode of Amazing Business Radio with Shep Hyken answers the following questions and more: How does internal employee engagement influence external customer experience? ...[ read more ]Tweet
The Invisible Elephant: Why 1 in 4 Employees Feel Sad at Work (and How to Fix It)
Joe Galvin - 24 February 2026Every morning, your employees walk through the door riding on the back of an elephant. You can’t see it. But...[ read more ]Tweet
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Featured Books
Integrity First Selling: How To Create Better Sales With Better Customers
Mark Hunter
In today’s noisy, trust-depleted marketplace, the most significant differentiator isn’t your product, price, or even your pitch—it’s your integrity. Integrity First Selling delivers a proven, practical framework to help you build long-term relationships with customers, close more deals, and feel [ More Here ]The LinkedIn Edge: New Sales Strategies for Unleashing the Power of LinkedIn + AI to Cold Call Less and Sell More
Jeb Blount & Brynne Tillman
Most sales professionals and entrepreneurs are desperate to find new techniques to help them break through the overwhelming noise and get the attention of high-value decision makers. They want to make fewer cold calls, face less resistance, and have more [ More Here ]The Framemaking Sale: Sell More by Boosting Customer Confidence
Brent Adamson & 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 ]Featured Contributors
Sue Barrett
Entrepreneur and systems thinker, Sue is best known as a business growth strategist, sales systems specialist, educator, writer, consultant, and change agent championing Better Business Practices for a sustainable world. ... [More Here ]Tiffani Bova
Tiffani Bova is a global customer growth and innovation evangelist . CRM). Recognized in 2014 as one of the most Powerful and Influential Women in California by the National Diversity ... [More Here ]Nancy Bleeke
Nancy Bleeke is most described as driven and practical. As someone who never wanted to be “in sales,” it’s ironic she found her calling working with tired (and often sales ... [More Here ]Latest Interviews, Videos & Podcasts
Building Sales Teams That Don’t Quit with Eric Laroque
Paul Fuller at Membrain
In this episode of The Art and Science of Complex Sales, Paul Fuller sits down with Eric Larocque, founder of Cultivate Winning, to unpack what truly drives sustainable sales performance. [ Listen Here ]How To Coach Underperforming Sales Reps
Colleen Stanley
You’re looking at sales figures and sigh. Half your team is on plan. A couple are just a little behind plan and then---there are your stragglers---the ones that tend to [ Watch Here ]How AI Can Make Customer Experience More Human with Vinod Muthukrishnan
Shep Hyken
Shep interviews Vinod Muthukrishnan, Vice President & General Manager of Webex Customer Experience at Cisco. He talks about how AI is moving from a technology tool to a collaborative coworker that [ Listen Here ]















