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Featured Posts
CEO Confidence Enters 2026 with Measured Optimism [Q4 Vistage CEO Index]
Joe Galvin - 14 January 2026Often, heightened optimism gives way to a phase of adjustment as expectations meet reality. One year ago, CEO confidence surged...[ read more ]Tweet
Top Book Winner in Top Sales Awards 2025
Colleen Stanley - 14 January 2026Be The Mentor Who Mattered has won the bronze medal in Top Sales Magazine’s 2025 Top Sales Awards. Colleen’s newest...[ read more ]Tweet
How to Not Be Cannon Fodder
George Brontén - 14 January 2026One of my pet peeves is salespeople sending out proposals too soon. You’ve heard me talk about it before. In...[ read more ]Tweet
Customer Experience Without Conditions
Shep Hyken - 14 January 2026Last year, I wrote an article on a “rule” in customer service that I called the Reality Rule: Treat customers well, regardless of how they treat you....[ read more ]Tweet
The Sales Hunter’s AI Manifesto
Mark Hunter - 14 January 2026How I Choose to Engage with Artificial Intelligence [embed]https://youtube.com/watch?v=qEFLOjX2mi4&feature=oembed[/embed] There’s no escaping it—AI is everywhere. It’s transforming how we work,...[ read more ]Tweet
My Daughter’s Experience at the Gas Station. Your Greatest Life Lesson Is At The Pump
Keith Rosen - 13 January 2026The holidays have a way of revealing what matters most, not through big gestures, but through quiet moments. This story...[ read more ]Tweet
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Featured Books
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 ]Be The Mentor Who Mattered: Make A Difference. Be The Difference.
Colleen Stanley
We live in an age of connection without community. Social media keeps us plugged in but leaves us lonely. Information floods our screens, yet real guidance seems rare. The truth? The world is in desperate need of mentors—ordinary people willing [ More Here ]Featured Contributors
Kristie Jones
Kristie is the go-to expert for SaaS and small business Founders wanting to build, grow, or scale their Sales and Customer Success teams. She started Sales Acceleration Group in 2016 ... [More Here ]Shep Hyken
Shep Hyken is a customer service and experience expert and the Chief Amazement Officer of Shepard Presentations. He is a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author and ... [More Here ]Mark Hunter
Author of "High-Profit Prospecting" and "High-Profit Selling," Mark helps companies identify better prospects, close more sales and profitably build more long-term customer relationships. He is known for his energetic presentation style and ability ... [More Here ]Latest Interviews, Videos & Podcasts
Nurturing the Next Generation of Sales with Daniel Kane
Paul Fuller at Membrain
In this episode of The Art and Science of Complex Sales, Paul Fuller sits down with Daniel Kane of Curbell Plastics to talk about the future of sales and how [ Listen Here ]Why Emotionally Intelligent Sales Professionals Win More Business
Colleen Stanley
Huh? That was my first reaction when I learned about emotional intelligence. But that “huh” quickly turned into an ah-hah moment: soft skills were the missing link in sales training. I was [ Watch Here ]Why the World Needs You to Lead – Remarkable TV
Kevin Eikenberry
The world doesn’t get better unless someone leads. That sentence may sound simple, but it carries enormous weight. Leadership is both a responsibility and an opportunity—a responsibility to make things better and an [ Watch Here ]
















