2025 is history. At least in the world of selling it is. “What have you done for lately?” is not some trite, overused question but a real challenge that we all face daily. Your selling world is now all about 2026 and truthfully, Q1! As such, the good fortune of winning a major deal to ... Read Post
Get ready to start the new year with optimism and success. With a solid foundation of financial protection through business insurance, streamlined production, and optimized pricing, you can improve your profits and set yourself up for the best year yet. Business Insurance for a Foundation Business insurance is essential for creating a safety net in ... »
Top 5 B2B CRMs for the Mid-Market The mid-market segment has unique B2B CRM requirements: sophisticated enough to support complex sales processes, yet practical enough to drive rapid adoption without dedicated IT resources. Here’s our definitive ranking. 1. Pipeliner CRM Why It Leads for B2B CRM Mid-Market Pipeliner CRM was purpose-built for the mid-market sweet ... »
The mining industry which people once saw as traditional and slow to adapt is now going through a profound transformation. The combination of technological progress with environmental demands and economic needs is forcing mining companies to adopt digital transformation in order to boost operational efficiency while adopting even greater safety measures all the while maintaining ... »
Capitalize on the new buyer’s journey by aligning sales and marketing. Help your business grow! Discover the advantages of making your sales and marketing work together. A huge part of the buying decision is made before your customer reaches out to your brand or meets your sales team. What does that mean for your sales ... Read Post
Stop Guessing: The Sales Leader’s Practical Guide to CRM Selection Choosing the wrong CRM can sabotage your sales team’s productivity for years. Too often, this critical decision is made by IT or executives who never spend a day on the front lines. In Selecting Your CRM to Guarantee Success, author and industry veteran Nikolaus Kimla ... Read Post
The sales manager’s job is arguably the the most difficult and demanding in a company. From above, the sales manager is being monitored and pressured to get those sales. From below, salespeople are looking to the sales manager for leadership, while at the same time harboring a bit of criticism because the sales manager isn’t ... Read Post
There are many issues to take into account when choosing a CRM solution. But chief among these considerations should be onboarding—that is, how easy is it to implement, train your users on, and administrate your new CRM solution? There are several reasons to pay attention to onboarding: The longer it takes to integrate and bring ... Read Post
Exploiting Your Company’s Uniquenesses: Pipeliner CRM Intelligent Fields Part of a customizable CRM, an Intelligent Field is a field which displays data in a read-only fashion, data which has been automatically calculated using other data obtained elsewhere. Pipeliner CRM has been, from the beginning, designed from the standpoint that no 2 companies are alike. Pipeliner ... Read Post
The shift in business is happening right now. Workflow automation is fundamentally transforming how companies operate, yet many are still “stuck in analog.” They are bogged down by disconnected departments, slow communication, and high-value employees trapped by repetitive, error-prone tasks. The pressure to become fully digital isn’t just about efficiency—it’s about survival. Organizations that fail ... Read Post
In the Pipeliner Manifesto, we point out how globalization has been brought about by the digital revolution. There is a fundamental transformation happening—actually one that’s been happening for a number of years now but which has reached mammoth proportions and only continues. That is the evolution of the digital world. While the whole world has ... Start a slideshow
Without a doubt, mobile apps can provide great benefits to small business owners. With mobile apps, a small business can reach new customers and provide a better experience to existing ones in a convenient way. However, these benefits can only be delivered when the mobile app works as expected. Many businesses don’t realize the importance ... Read Post
Sales POP! is your shortcut to sales, marketing and leadership excellence, offering short, insightful episodes with top global thought leaders, hosted by John Golden.
Paul Ross has spent 30 years studying why people say yes—and it rarely has anything to do with your product.
In this episode, he explains how top-performing reps create emotional safety before ever making a pitch. Small language shifts—words like “explore” and “together”—signal partnership instead of pressure, quietly lowering a buyer’s guard.
When objections arise, Ross doesn’t argue. He interrupts the pattern with a question that reframes the resistance entirely. The result? Conversations that feel less like sales calls and more like genuine decisions being made.
