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
In this podcast episode, John Golden interviews Marissa Freeman, the Chief Marketing Officer of Union Square Hospitality Group, about branding and customer experience in the hospitality industry. Freeman emphasizes the importance of understanding the customer journey and ensuring that brand values overlap with any partnership. She also discusses the significance of hospitality in creating a ... »
In this podcast episode, John Golden interviews Ruben Dua, the CEO of Dub, a video sales platform, about the importance of incorporating video into the sales process. Ruben explains how video can help businesses scale and grow without requiring additional inputs, and emphasizes the importance of human connection and authenticity in sales and marketing. He ... »
In this podcast episode, John Golden interviews Vaughn Sigman, co-founder of Results Driven Leadership, about sales leadership and management. They discuss the common mistake of promoting the best salesperson to a sales leader without proper training, the importance of coaching skills in sales leadership, and the different skill sets required for sales leadership and salesperson ... »
In this podcast episode, John Golden and Stacy Brown Randall discuss the challenges of generating referrals without asking for them. They explain why traditional tactics of asking for referrals and incentivizing them don’t work and emphasize the importance of building relationships and nurturing a referral ecosystem within a business. Stacy introduces her “backwards approach” to ... »
In this podcast episode, John Golden interviews Jamie Shanks, founder and CEO of Pipeline Signals, about the importance of mining and researching active customer prospect and competitor accounts. Jamie suggests a three-step process to address the challenges of prospecting efforts and account selection and prioritization models. He also emphasizes the need for sales teams to ... »
In this podcast episode, the speakers discuss the concept of hybrid leadership and its relevance during the pandemic. They emphasize the need for empathy and flexibility in leadership, especially in the context of remote work and changing talent recruitment. The speakers also discuss the importance of accommodating the mind and body in the workplace, creating ... »
In this podcast episode, John Golden interviews Greg Nutter, a management consultant and author of P3 Selling, about the top five mistakes B2B sellers make. Greg discusses the importance of creating awareness, effective prospecting, and the role of a salesperson in the buying process. He identifies the top three mistakes as forgetting what selling is, ... »
In this podcast episode, John Golden interviews Kyle Hoffman, an executive at XenoPsi Ventures, about growing direct-to-consumer (DTC) and e-commerce brands through digital in the post-iOS 14 era. Kyle shares his experience with Wellow, a compression sock brand, and how they made strategic decisions to succeed in the DTC market. He emphasizes the importance of ... »
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
Really enjoyed being interviewed by John for SalesPop Magazine. Great conversation, very professional and insightful questions. I would highly recommend him for his podcast and interviewing skills.
Hiten Bhatt PC
We had such a good time together exploring his questions and it always makes it good for any audience when the people doing the podcast are having fun.
Mags Bell 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
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
John's guests are in tune with the program and always provide a worthwhile listen. Highly recommended
Ted Kulawiak PC
it was a pleasure to be interviewed by John on my book "Communicate or Die: Getting Results Through Speaking and Listening." John is an empathetic, thoughtful, and dynamic interviewer
Dr. Thomas Zweifel PC
John works to get to the heart of the matter so listeners can find what they need, wisdom to grow and advance.
Scott F. Paradis PC
The supplement game has changed completely. John Smiddy, who’s launched over 100 products and generated $100M+ in sales, joined Sales POP! host John Golden to break down what’s actually working now. His biggest revelation? AI is transforming how people buy supplements. Consumers are completing entire purchases inside ChatGPT conversations—no Google browsing required. That means your ... »
Gulf brands flooding the U.S. market with digital ads are discovering an expensive truth: those dashboard metrics are misleading. Advertising expert Rihab Abouzaki from This and That Communications reveals how bots, proxies, and click farms drain budgets while delivering zero authentic engagement. The solution? Credible channels and verified American partnerships. Streaming TV reaches 117 million ... »
Most people who dislike red wine have never actually tasted it properly. Michael Fors, founder of Liquid Jazz, explains how a simple walk along the Gloucester shoreline changed everything he knew about wine aeration. Watching water cascade over rocks, Fors realized wine needs the same natural movement to reveal its best qualities. His patented decanter ... »
Stuck at $5 million in revenue? You’re not alone. Strategic advisor Alexis Sikorsky reveals why growth stalls at this critical threshold—and how to break through. The culprit? Founder exhaustion that goes beyond burnout. Most CEOs remain entangled in daily operations, confusing urgent tasks with important ones. The fix starts with ruthlessly delegating everything that doesn’t ... »
Building high-performance sales teams starts with better hiring decisions. Walter Crosby’s framework challenges conventional recruitment wisdom and delivers results. First, craft honest job descriptions that attract A-players and repel everyone else. Think Navy SEALs recruitment—transparency filters out mismatched candidates before they waste your time. During interviews, challenge candidates thoughtfully. Ask about failed deals, their sales ... »
Forget the doomsday predictions about AI stealing jobs. Daniel Hindi, CEO of Noem AI, shared a radically different vision on the Sales POP! podcast: AI should eliminate the work nobody wants to do in the first place. When AI chatbots handle 80-90% of routine support tickets—password resets, basic billing questions—human agents finally escape the repetitive ... »
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