When it comes to sales, it is all about understanding the customer. In this Expert Insight Interview, we welcome Gen Furukawa, Co-Founder of Prehook, a quiz platform for Shopify brands that helps merchants capture leads. Visit us on Apple Podcast You can also find SalesPOP! on all major podcast stations.Listen
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 podcast episode, John Golden from Sales POP! Online Sales Magazine and Pipeline CRM hosts Dionne Mejer, CEO of Revenue By Design. They explore a three-step process for unlocking revenue growth. Dionne shares her 25 years of experience, emphasizing the importance of identifying, specifying, and testifying in the sales cycle. Dionne explains the necessity ... »
In this podcast episode, John Golden interviews Josh Alltop about his move from music production to sales. Josh talks about the cultural shock he experienced and the importance of believing in what you’re selling. He compares it to recommending a restaurant. They discuss negative stereotypes of salespeople and promote a service-oriented approach. Josh emphasizes empathy ... »
In this podcast episode, John Golden interviews Donald Kelly, a sales influencer and professional, on the topic of outbound sales strategies for 2024. Donald emphasizes the importance of outbound sales for scaling businesses and discusses the challenges posed by the current noisy digital environment. He advocates for a personalized and human-centered approach to engaging with ... »
In this podcast episode, John Golden interviews Nick Caruso about augmented intelligence in sales. Caruso, from KnowledgeNet.ai, emphasizes that augmented intelligence aims to enhance human efficiency, not replace it. They explore its use in refining sales playbooks and ideal customer profiles at the funnel’s top, improving alignment between sales and marketing. Caruso predicts the future ... »
In this episode of the Expert Insight Interview, host John Golden speaks with Richard Harris about the significance of human interaction in sales. They delve into the seller’s journey, emphasizing the need for active listening, respect for the buyer’s time, and maintaining the human element in sales interactions. Harris shares tactics for understanding buyer concerns, ... »
In this podcast episode, John Golden interviews Kathy Andrews on leadership development and the transition from best to real practices in leadership. They explore leaders’ challenges and the need for authentic connection and adaptability in evolving workplace cultures. Kathy emphasizes the importance of leaders being more than problem solvers, developing a broader skill set, and ... »
In this podcast episode, John Golden interviews Kim Peterson Stone, a LinkedIn expert and founder of Linkability. They delve into strategies for effectively using LinkedIn and Sales Navigator, emphasizing the importance of personal connections, consistency, and providing value to drive business success. They discuss the impact of automation and AI on LinkedIn outreach and caution ... »
In this podcast episode, John Golden from Sales POP Online Sales Magazine and Pipeline CRM interviews Blair Siegler, CEO and founder of Quantico. They discuss the role of negotiation intelligence in B2B sales, focusing on how discounts and concessions affect profitability. Blair shares insights from his time at Meta, emphasizing the importance of a value ... »
He clearly had done his prep work on my topic, and he really focused on what I said in the moment, so the conversation was as authentic and meaningful as possible
Stephanie Klein PC
I loved being a guest on the Sales POP podcast! John's easy going and insightful presence created a great conversation where we offered up content to help others Build a Vibrant Culture!
Nicole Greer PC
John was able to draw out the similarities and differences in our way of approaching sales without it being awkward.
Shayla Boyd-Gill PC
John asked meaningful questions that are relevant for his audience and was spirited in his interview approach with curiosity and enthusiasm. It was an honor to be able to spend the time on his show and become a new raving fan of his content.
Rhonda Petit PC
John is a gracious host and truly has a great sales mind. Ultimately selling is about people and John understands this well. He is one that sells with dignity!
Harry Spaight PC
He asked insightful questions that revealed aspects and nuances about the topic that the viewers will undoubtedly find very valuable.
Paolo Pironi PC
I am grateful to salespop.net and John for the opportunity to discuss gold and my new book, "Money and Liberty: In the Pursuit of Happiness and The Theory of Natural Money".
Jame Turk PC
I encourage successful sales professionals to tune into SalesPOP! And if their staff contacts you to appear, you are making it and a name for yourself as a one to watch in our esteemed profession.
Precious Williams PC
Rob Snyder—serial startup founder, Harvard Innovation Labs fellow, and author of The Power of Pull—argues that customer demand, not better features or harder selling, is the only thing that makes a startup succeed. The fastest path to growth is to find people who already feel “blocked” while trying to do something urgent, then unblock them. ... »
David Dean, author of An Inbox Between Us, keynote speaker, and self-described business AI realist, argues that you future-proof your job not by mastering tools but by deepening the human judgment, lived experience, and accountability AI can’t replicate. In this episode, Dean reframes AI as a relationship that takes time and shows how your communication ... »
Jim Effner, Founder & President of P2P Group, explains why AI won’t replace financial advisors: money is a human-behavior business, and clients need an advisor they can implicitly trust, who understands them and genuinely cares. A former top-1% advisor who scaled Effner Financial Group to nearly 150 advisors and $27 billion of insurance in force, ... »
Maximos Lih, founder and CEO of Emboldened LLC and a former operating partner at Google Ventures, argues that AI’s failures — not its successes — reveal a company’s biggest growth opportunities, and that leaders who treat AI as a one-for-one headcount swap destroy their own competitive moat. In this episode, Maximos draws on nearly a ... »
Glenn Fleischman, Chief Revenue Officer at AYTM, an AI-powered consumer insights platform, argues the biggest AI risk in sales isn’t losing your job to an agent — it’s losing it to a colleague who uses AI better than you. In this episode, Fleischman lays out a practical, “bite-by-bite” path to AI adoption for sellers and ... »
Glenn Sandifer, a 20-year sales and marketing executive at Securos USA, says AI belongs in sales only when it solves a real problem or automates a manual process — never as a mandate for its own sake. In this episode, Glenn explains how leaders can standardize AI tools across their teams, keep humans in control ... »
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