25 Sales, marketing and business blogs that inspire and ignite leaders!
In business time is money and more so in sales.
It’s not just important to understand the industry and networks around but to also know whats the best way to convert prospects. This will only come with time. With practically no dearth of sales bloggers on the internet, I thought it would be useful to spend some time to find a list of some high quality sales or business bloggers.
With no delay, here’s the list !
1 Jill Konrath: Jill is a master of the game and has the best advice as a sales strategist, speaker and the author of the sales books Selling to Big Companies and SNAP Selling. She’s got plenty of wisdom to share on how cracking into new accounts, speeding up sales and growing your business.
2. Eric Ries
Eric is an American entrepreneur, blogger and author of the wildly successful book — “The Lean Startup”. I loved his blogs for the no-BS and actionable insights he shares. Highly recommend !
Anthony is an international speaker, sales leader, and the author of “The Only Sales Guide You’ll Ever Need” and “The Lost Art of Closing”. He blogs regularly on sales tips and insights.
4. Matthew Heinz:
Matt Heinz is a popular blogger and founder and head of Heinz marketing. Matt is a dynamic speaker popular for his insightful, actionable and motivating takeaways.
Trish is the chief startegist and founder of The Bridge Group, where she’s been helping B2B technology companies build world-class inside sales teams. She has tremendous much to share on implementation strategy, performance improvement process, supporting technology, and metrics and measurement.
6. Neal Schaffer:
Neal is a leading social media strategist and has written two award-winning books on LinkedIn. In today’s digital age when social media prospecting is key in sales, Neal has a lot to teach.
7. Steve Blank:
Steve is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur recognised for developing the Customer Development method that launched the Lean Startup movement — a methodology which recognised that startups are not smaller versions of large companies, but require their own set of processes and tools to be successful. Steve often writes about lean startup methods and processes and customer development.
8. Guy Kawasaki:
Guy is an American marketing specialist, author, and Silicon Valley venture capitalist. As an established early Apple employee and current evangelist for Canva, Guy talks about innovation, entrepreneurship and startups.
Ben Horowitz is an American businessman, investor, blogger, and author. He is a reputed technology entrepreneur and VC with his own VC firm Andreessen Horowitz. His book The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers, is a must read book about startups life and selling.
10. John Paul Kotter: i
John Kotter is a visionary thinker and professor at Harvard Business School. His “millions leading and billions benefiting” maxim is legendary. He talks about leadership and change majorly. I added him to this list because he has the right things to teach sales managers to lead their teams towards success.
11. Anthony Jay “Tony” Robbins:
Tony Robbins is an American author entrepreneur, philanthropist and life coach. Though Robbins is famous for his life coaching seminars, and self-help books including Unlimited Power and Awaken the Giant Within, he is considered one of the top people to seek inspiration in sales and motivate sales teams to achieve their best possible.
12. Simon O. Sinek:
Simon Sinek is a British-American author, motivational speaker and marketing consultant who has the most interesting, simple and insightful things to say about leadership and entrepreneurship.
13. Grant Cardone:
Grant is the bestselling author of The 10X Rule and If You’re Not First, You’re Last as well as a sales trainer, speaker, entrepreneur and sales training expert. Currently he is one of the mos sought after and looked up to sales experts in the world.
14. Sir Richard Branson :
Sir Richard Branson is probably one of the most recognised faces in the world today as the dynamic founder of Virgin group. He has quite a view on the world and shares them on his blog.
15. Dave Morin:
Dave is an American entrepreneur, angel investor, and the CEO and co-founder of the social network Path. A former manager at Facebook, he co-created the Facebook Platform and Facebook Connect. I found his blogs on Medium really well.
16. Robert Kiyosaki:
Robert is an American businessman and author of 26 books including Rich Dad Poor dad. I suggest you read his work for great finnacial and business advice which is always important.
17. “Jim” Rohn:
Jim was an American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker. He is well known for his talks on personal development, leadership and productivity.
18. James Altucher:
James Altucher is an American VC, podcaster, entrepreneur and best-selling author. He has founded or co-founded more than 20 companies and failed at 17 of them. He talks about Buisness, motivation, success and failure in entrepreneurship.
19. Ryan Holiday:
Ryan is an American author, marketer, entrepreneur and author of bestselling book “Trust Me, I’m Lying, The Obstacle Is The Way.”. he writes about entrepreneurial life, productivity , success and motivation.
20. Timothy Sykes:
Tim Sykes is a financial activist and educator who became famous for earning $1.65 million by day trading in penny stocks while attending Tulane University . I’d suggest those of us interested in financial advice on trading to follow his blog.
21. Gary Vaynerchuk:
Gary needs no introduction in the entrepreneurs world. If you're an entrepreneur and haven't heard of or stumbled upon content from Gary you've been doing it all wrong . Gary is a Belarusian American entrepreneur, author, speaker and internet personality and owner of Vayner media. He is a leading authority in digital marketing, social media and selling.
22. Tom Tunguz
Tom Tunguz is a partner at VC firm Red POint and is known for his book “ Winning With Data”. He regularly writes on succeeding in buisness with data and has the most meaningful inisghts to share with modern business leaders, owners and founders.
Walter Schloss was an American investor, fund manager, and philanthropist. he was a respected and sought after investor. He has tons of value to share with those interested in financial planning and investing.
24. Jeffrey Gitomer :
Jeff Gitomer is an international speaker who talks about sales, customer loyalty, and personal development.
25. Zig Ziglar:
Zig Ziglar was probably one of the greatest sales people alive and his timeless advice on business motivation, sales and hustling continues to live and teach generation after generation of salespeople.
