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.
In this day and age of the sales world, you might think that sales and marketing engagement would be very integrated. However, this isn’t exactly the case. There is still a struggle between sales teams and marketing teams, and this difficulty unifying them had consequences that affect the entire organization. Joel Capperella, interviewed by John ... »
Our life is our own creating. And yet, many do not embrace overcoming obstacles very well. Much of life may feel like an objective truth, or an external reality that is beyond our control, but overcoming obstacles can lead to fruitful discoveries and unexpected growth, both on a personal level, and professional level. Isaac Lidsky, ... »
John Golden interviews Ryan Lowe who is a professional motivational keynote speaker, sales trainer, consultant & author, whose passion is to work with organizations that want to inspire and motivate their leaders and team members with principles that will help create a positive culture and mindset to achieve excellence. John and Ryan cover the below ... »
In the last decade, we have entered into a new era of selling. This has affected all areas of sales, including the sales team, the marketing team, sales management, technology and software systems, and most importantly, it has changed the way buyers buy. In order to keep up with these changes, David Meerman Scott, interviewed ... »
Salespeople are optimistic by nature. They have to be, in a career where rejection is commonplace. However, it’s not always smart to go after every sales opportunity, especially when it’s a sale that utilizes a lot of resources. Brian Sullivan, interviewed by John Golden, discusses sales opportunity analysis for enterprise selling. This podcast is also ... »
Host John Golden sits down with Andy Paul to discuss how to cuts through the noise of excessive mediocre sales tips in order to get to the effective sales advice that will make a difference for your sales in 2018. The first piece of advice that Andy provides is this: if it seems “hypey” just ... »
An important aspect of selling to a group with a sales presentation is selling within the presentation. It’s one thing to sell one-on-one, where the person you’re selling to is going to be talking as much as you. But what does it look like when you as the salesperson are doing most of the talking? ... »
Often, a company buys from a salesperson because that salesperson had a great pitch. It is not always because the product is better than others on the market. “You could have a great offering, but if you don’t know how to sell it and pitch it, it doesn’t matter what your offering is,” says Justin ... »
Sid Bharath is the founder of Refound, an AI consultancy that helps mid-market companies become genuinely AI native. With a background spanning top-tier consulting, startup growth, and early-stage language model experimentation, Sid works hands-on with leadership teams to audit workflows, identify high-impact use cases, and deploy phased AI adoption strategies that deliver measurable results. In ... »
Richard Broo is a project management turnaround specialist and founder of True North PMP Consulting, with more than four decades of experience helping Fortune 500 companies and mid-market organizations recover projects that are bleeding budget, sliding on timelines, or losing leadership alignment. In this episode, Richard breaks down the invisible forces that cause most projects ... »
Shabnum Bi is the Founder and Director of Early Nurture Preschool in Birmingham — an Ofsted Outstanding setting that has attracted international delegates, earned a place in the Montessori International Awards finals, and brought Shabnum to a World Leaders Summit at the University of Oxford. In this episode, Shabnum shares how she rebuilt her early ... »
Lisa Pagotto is the Founder & CEO of Crooked Compass, a multi-seven-figure immersive adventure travel company specializing in small group expeditions to the world’s most remote and extraordinary destinations. In this episode, she joins John Golden to share the leadership lessons forged in the aftermath of a Shark Tank episode that nearly cost her everything ... »
Sridhar Ravilla is a fractional transformation executive and author with more than 25 years of senior leadership experience at AT&T and Tech Mahindra, where he led enterprise-scale programmes spanning cloud, AI, and digital modernisation. He joins John Golden to diagnose a pattern he has seen across industries: well-funded, well-led transformations that collapse not at the ... »
Susan Friedman is the founder of Aviva Publishing & Marketing, a nonfiction book marketing specialist with over 30 years of experience and 18 published books — including one title that sold over 500,000 copies to a single corporate buyer. In this episode, she challenges the assumptions that sink most business authors and lays out a ... »
