As an entrepreneur or a sales professional looking to stay on top of your sales game, you need to constantly stay aware of new tools, tips, and strategies that you can add to your sales playbook. Whether you are looking for strategic advice on how to think about your sales process or tactical advise on how to generate more leads, following the best sales blogs is a great way to keep your reading list full of great ideas and actionable tactics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We have curated some of the best sales blogs which you need to follow – to learn from some of the best in the business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Heinz Marketing<\/strong><\/a> is one of the most vibrant and active sales blogs out there regularly churning interesting and bite-sized content. Watch out for some of their regular features like \u201cApp of the Week\u201d – featuring interesting new apps\/ tools for salespeople and \u201cHow I Work\u201d featuring sales interviews<\/a> with professionals on how they approach\/ structure their work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Recommended Articles:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Want to know the 50 best sales articles of the decade<\/a> or how to incorporate elements of fantasy football into your sales strategy. Ambition<\/a> helps you think outside the box – and find new ways to motivate your sales team using gamification and in the process also creates some extremely well-researched content – like this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Recommended Articles:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n They may not be producing content at the same prolific pace as some of the others on this list, but the Openview Partners Blog<\/a><\/strong> more than makes up for it by curating some of the most interesting posts and publishing some very high quality content that can help bring clarity to entrepreneurs as they try to navigate the emerging trends and best practices in sales. If you are in SAAS sales, then this one is a must follow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Recommended Articles:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The folks over at Pipedrive<\/a><\/strong> keep their blog top notch with fresh articles and interesting takes on sales pipeline management, sales productivity and even throw in the occasional offbeat article such as the 2016 Sales Olympics: What Country Has The Best Salespeople?<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you are a small business that is scaling your sales team, this is a blog that you can learn from.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Recommended Articles:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n With more than three dozen Pulitzer Prizes to its credit, the Wall Street Journal remains one of the most credible and authoritative voices in business journalism worldwide. For sales professionals and entrepreneurs alike, the WSJ should be a staple of their media diet to keep up with the latest news and in-depth analyses on the economy, business, markets, tech and politics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Recommended Articles:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n For Entrepreneurs<\/a> <\/strong>(ranked #2 by Forbes in the 100 best websites for Entrepreneurs) by David Skok of Matrix Partners, is full of thought-provoking posts aimed at entrepreneurs – to help you build a sales and marketing machine. The posts are highly strategic in nature and among other things helps you think through your positioning, metrics, marketing-sales alignment, etc. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Recommended Articles:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The Undisputed King of Inbound Marketing and Sales Platform, HubSpot produces a large amount of content from a variety of bloggers which include some really prominent names in the industry. With the site boasting an impressive 560 on the Alexa Global Rank<\/a>(as of 26\/10\/2017<\/em>), the HubSpot Blog<\/a><\/strong> is arguably the central hub for all tips on sales, marketing, and so on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Recommended Articles:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n An excellent blog from The Bridge Group, the Inside Sales Experts Blog <\/a><\/strong>which helps in building and expanding one\u2019s inside sales team, especially in tech companies. This blog provides tips about lead generation, inside sales productivity and provides metrics, trends, and best practices to help you along<\/p>\n\n\n\n Recommended Articles:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Sales For Life<\/a><\/strong> is a niche sales blog which helps salespeople connect with the modern buyers by providing tips on how to engage prospects in a friendly, helpful and convenient way. They host exclusive webinars where they cover a variety of topics such as Social Selling, Sales Advice, Sales 2.0 and efficient sales automation techniques. These webinars feature speakers from various other platforms such as HubSpot, Inside Sales, CSO Insights, Sandler Training and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Recommended Articles:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The Close.io Blog<\/a><\/strong>, from their founder Steli Efti, delivers some high-quality content geared towards salespeople to help them in approaching a prospect, improving sales techniques and closing deals and so on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Recommended Articles:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Sales Pro Insider<\/strong><\/a> covers a range of sales topics from how to have productive sales conversations to training your team to sell more, hiring sales stars to tips to decrease your cost of business. Run by Nancy Bleeke, who has years of sales experience under her belt, she gives solid advice in a straightforward and engaging manner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Recommended Articles:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The word \u2018Fresh\u2019 <\/em>in Fresh Sales Strategies<\/a><\/strong> indicates Jill\u2019s relentless search on how to crack new accounts in today\u2019s ever-changing market. The eminent sales author has quite a huge following on LinkedIn with her newsletters raking in a large number of readers. This blog provides tips on increasing your sales, bringing in new businesses at a faster rate and dealing with complex sales. Jill adds an excellent personal touch to her posts by including real-life stories making it more relatable and conversational.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Recommended Articles:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n From bestselling author, reputed speaker and sale leader, Anthony S Iannarino The Sales Blog<\/a><\/strong> is a quintessential blog where he advises people, shares ideas, gives motivational wisdom and also asks questions to the readers. His blogs cover sales, value creation, leadership, and general success tips. He also posts sales tips and insights on a daily basis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Recommended Articles:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n David Sandler\u2019s, Sandler Training Blog<\/a><\/strong> provides a wide array of consulting, coaching and programs in sales training, management, leadership and other related fields. Its steady supply of advice for every type of sales professional makes this blog a must follow one. The articles are optimized with a lot of examples so that readers have a good understanding on how to convert concepts\/ideas into action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Recommended Articles:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The folks at SalesFolk<\/a> do their part to help you become a better salesperson by churning out quality, refreshing content on sales, emails etc. with examples as well as videos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you want to improve your sales game and enjoy a casual, no BS tone of writing, then SalesFolk must absolutely feature in your reading list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This sales blog has a unique section called \u2018Hall of Shame\u2019 that explains the things you should avoid in sales, by breaking down various real examples of bad approaches to the sales process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Recommended Articles:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Marc Wayshak, the founder of Sales Insights Lab, covers a wide range of topics in sales, in his blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This blog is particularly a great pick if you prefer watching videos to reading, as the majority of the posts contain videos that walk you through the topics in an interactive manner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
2. Ambition Blog<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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3. Openview Partners Sales Blog<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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4. Pipedrive Sales Blog<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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5. The Wall Street Journal<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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6. For Entrepreneurs \u2013 David Skok<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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7. HubSpot Blog – Sales<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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8. Inside Sales Experts Blog<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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9. Sales for Life Blog<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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10. The Close.io Blog<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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11. Sales Pro Insider Blog<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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12. Jill Konrath\u2019s Fresh Sales Strategies<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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13. The Sales Blog – Anthony Iannarino<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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14. Sandler Training Blog<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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15. SalesFolk<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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16. Marc Wayshak Blog<\/h3>\n\n\n\n