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 interviews Neil Patrick Rogers, author of “Bar Tips: Everything I Needed to Know in Sales I Learned Behind the Bar.” Neil shares the lessons he learned from his 27 years of bartending experience and how they apply to sales. He emphasizes the importance of making a great first impression, ... »
In this podcast episode, host John Golden is joined by Kyle Stout, founder of Elevate and Scale, to discuss the role of AI in developing a content marketing strategy. They emphasize the importance of having a strategy before using AI tools and highlight the need for human intervention to ensure quality content. They explore how ... »
In this podcast episode, John Golden and Jakub Hon discuss the challenges of moving from “maybes” to close deals in sales. Jakub, an expert in sales processes, highlights the reasons why deals get stuck in uncertainty, such as wrongly qualifying leads and a lack of control in guiding customers. They emphasize What specific strategies does ... »
In this podcast episode, John Golden interviews Alex Fisher about his new book, “The Business Athlete.” They discuss Alex’s background as a professional athlete and how it influenced his book. They also delve into topics such as mental fortitude, coachability, and energy management. Alex emphasizes the importance of taking control of one’s own energy and ... »
In this podcast episode, John Golden welcomes Bill Sims, author and motivational speaker, to discuss his book “The Green Beans and Ice Cream Book: How to Motivate with Positive Reinforcement.” They explore the concept of positive reinforcement and its impact on behavior change. They also touch on the challenges of managing people and the lack ... »
In this podcast episode, John Golden interviews behavior change expert Adele Spraggon about how the brain makes decisions and how to upgrade it for better choices. They discuss the role of subconscious patterns, negative voices about sales, addressing emotions and triggers, and the potential for rewiring the brain. Adele shares her insights on sales conversations, ... »
In this podcast episode, John Golden interviews Drew Sechrist, the CEO and Co-founder of Connect the Dots. They discuss the challenges faced by salespeople in reaching the right decision-makers and the inefficiencies of traditional networking methods. Drew shares his experience at Salesforce, where he learned the power of leveraging networks and making introductions. He explains ... »
In this podcast episode, John Golden interviews Richard Flange about the current state of the electric vehicle market and renewable energy. Richard explains that the adoption of the Tesla charging system by major automakers has opened up more charging options for non-Tesla electric vehicle owners. They discuss the strain on the power grid due to ... »
John's guests are in tune with the program and always provide a worthwhile listen. Highly recommended
Ted Kulawiak PC
Having been a guest on many podcasts, I put this experience among the most enjoyable and professional
Eric McNulty PC
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 appreciate how John highlighted the value of my lived experience in helping others change their mindset, because people live in all kinds of prisons in their heads
Trish Jenkins 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
John is a wonderful interviewer, exuding warmth and insight. It's clear he cares deeply about elevating the conversation about all things leadership and motivation.
Amy Wong 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 was able to draw out the similarities and differences in our way of approaching sales without it being awkward.
Shayla Boyd-Gill PC
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 ... »
Chad Coe, Founder of Coe Financial Group, replaces the hard pitch with what he calls “peopleizing” — leading with genuine care so prospects hire a relationship, not a sale. In this Sales POP! Expert Insight Interview, Chad shows how thoughtful questions, the right follow-up rhythm, and patience turn cold contacts into clients who say he ... »
Dilip Chetan, founder of Recursion Lab and creator of the Defensible Zone framework, argues that leaders racing to automate ask the wrong question — the smart move isn’t “What can we automate?” but “What human value must we protect?” In this episode he maps the moats AI erodes and the judgment, trust, and reasoning it ... »
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