The SalesPOP! The podcast is one of the world’s top-ranked sales podcasts, ranking in the top 2% of 3.3 million podcasts globally. Hosted by John Golden, Amazon bestselling author and globally recognized sales thought leader, the show features short, actionable conversations with the world’s leading sales experts, authors, and practitioners.
With over 1,500 episodes and counting, we cover everything from sales enablement and pipeline management to AI-powered selling, leadership development, and CRM strategy. Each episode distills decades of real-world selling experience into insights you can apply immediately.
Many people are unfamiliar with strategic planning, and how it can create tremendous growth within an organization. And even if you are familiar with the concept, there can still be a lot of confusion over how to do it, or create consistency with a strategic plan. Strategic planning is a process or a system, that ... »
There has been a lot of talk about mindfulness over the last few years, but it is more relevant now than ever before, especially with the current global pandemic caused by COVID-19. People are more stressed and more burnt out than ever, and there are relative uncertainty and complex ambiguity on a global scale. The ... »
The United States is truly in a financial education crisis. At no point in our lives are we taught to manage our money. We’re not being taught in high school or college, and often times we’re not being taught by our parents either. Millennials go from not having any income in college and just focusing ... »
Digital selling is more important now than ever. It is invading many different aspects of our lives and careers. Sales can tend to be slow to adapt, especially when business is good. But there is no better time to start integrating digital selling tools than right now. We’re going through a unique upheaval with COVID-19, ... »
One of the biggest problems with today’s sales force is the reliance on tactics that were documented back in 1873. This tactic and process assume that the salesperson can do everything, including prospecting, negotiating, closing, demonstrating the product or service, following up, and taking care of the customer overall. Back in those days, that process ... »
There are many different behavioral and value analysis tools out there, like the Meyers Briggs and Enneagram tests, emotional intelligence tools, and others. Many people deem these assessments as helpful, both in personal and professional realms, but they can be truly invaluable when it comes to creating trust with your clients and building relationships with ... »
Disruption happens all the time in the business world. Sometimes you want to be disruptive to improve your business or make important changes, and make plans and prepare for the disruption. Other times, like what’s happening in today’s COVID-19 world, there are external forces that cause disruptions that are not at all planned. Charlene Li ... »
Think about the number of performance metrics and data that you have access to at any given moment. For salespeople, sales managers, sales leaders, and other business people, there is an enormous amount of metric; so much so that CRM systems and other organizational software are prioritized as one of the most important things that ... »
Antoniette Roze is the CEO of WPC Global and the host of Speak Pact, a done-for-you booking agency that helps six- and seven-figure experts stop chasing speaking gigs and start filling their calendars with consistent, high-value opportunities. In this Expert Insight Interview, she joins John Golden to explain why most speakers treat the stage like ... »
Jessica Rhodes is the Founder of Interview Connections, the world’s first podcast booking agency, launched in 2013. In 2020 she hired her first sales reps to scale the company — and spent six years trying to make the model work before dismantling it. In this Expert Insight Interview, Jessica walks through the friction between commission-driven ... »
Carmen Sederino is the founder and Performance Master at Illuminated Story and a former corporate leader who managed a $300 million portfolio across 18 years before turning her professional-arts training into an executive coaching practice. In this Expert Insight Interview, she argues that the live keynote is a competitive advantage no AI tool can replicate ... »
Jacquelyn Goldberg, VP of Sales at Unframe AI, has spent a decade building sales organizations from scratch at AI and enterprise companies — and she’s scaled her current team to multi-million ARR in under a year. In this Expert Insight Interview with John Golden, Jacquelyn unpacks why so many pedigreed sellers stall when they land ... »
Kevin C. Roy is the founder and CEO of Green Banana SEO, a full-stack agency based in Boston that has been guiding clients through search evolutions since 2009. In this Expert Insight Interview, Kevin joins John Golden to unpack how AI has rewritten the rules of search — and what companies need to do now ... »
Irwin Hau is the founder of Chromatix, an award-winning Melbourne-based conversion design agency, and the creator of Conversion Cow, a SaaS platform that turns ordinary websites into high-performing sales assets. Over 16 years, he has analyzed more than 60,000 websites and developed the Trust and Authority framework that fuses behavioral psychology, conversion strategy, and UX ... »
