27 Top Sales Influencers You Should Follow in 2024
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Welcome to the Salesblazer Highlights newsletter! Twice a month, we spotlight tips, tricks, and best practices from leading sales professionals.
In this issue, we share our list of top sales influencers, making waves in everything from equality and inclusion to AI and technology.?
What just happened? It feels like we turned around and blinked, and everything about sales changed. There are shiny new things, like AI writing emails, but there are also challenges: Prospects are doing their own research upfront, pushing reps to deliver more value. It’s a great time to get tips and tricks for how to succeed in this dizzying new environment.
Enter our 27 top sales influencers. They’re seasoned Salesblazers whose expertise runs the gamut, from promoting diversity to coaching sellers to grow and helping sales leaders perfect their strategy. Here’s a sneak peek of the list:
Founder, Learntosell.io
Belal has been in software sales for 15 years with extensive experience in outbound prospecting. He specializes in getting skeptical prospects to become happy customers with zero brand recognition. He shares these insights via online courses and bootcamps at Learntosell.io. He’s also been recognized as a sales thought leader by many top brands and media outlets, including Salesforce, LinkedIn, Gartner, and Business Insider.?
Founder and Chief Sales Evangelist, The Sales Evangelist
Donald is a former top-performing technology sales professional, the author of “Sell It Like A Mango: A New Seller’s Guide To Closing More Deals,” and the co-author of multiple digital textbooks, including “Professional Selling: A Guide for the Modern Sales Professional.” He is an adjunct professor at Brigham Young University – Idaho, and he hosts the popular sales podcast, “The Sales Evangelist,” with listeners in 155 countries and over four million downloads.
CEO, JB Sales
John is the CEO of JB Sales, a sales training company that is recognized as one of the top three sales training organizations, according to G2. John is also recognized as a Top Voice in Sales on LinkedIn, where he has over 380k followers. John is the author of “I Want to Be in Sales When I Grow Up!” a bestselling children’s book that he wrote with his daughter to help introduce sales to the younger generation, with 100% of the profits going to charity.?
Founder and CEO, Revenue Funnel
Hannah is the CEO and Founder of Revenue Funnel, a consulting firm that helps go-to-market teams optimize their sales process for the B2B buyer journey. Hannah also leads international growth for Sistas in Sales, a professional organization for women of color in sales. She also led the Google Leadership Summit with 72 sales leaders. Previously, she was a go-to-market strategy lead for Skaled Consulting, where she grew revenue for the EMEA region to seven figures within a year.
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Founder and VP of sales, 30 Minutes to President’s Club
Armand is an expert in leadership, revenue growth strategies, and sales tactics as the founder of 30 Minutes to President’s Club, a sales media company known for running one of the world’s most popular sales podcasts. Prior to running 30 Minutes to President’s Club full-time, he jumped from top account executive at Carta to VP of sales at Pave, all by the age of 29. Under Armand’s guidance, Pave grew from $100k to more than $10M in annual recurring revenue.
Professional Speaker
Cynthia is a sales transformation expert with over 15 years of experience driving results through diversity and empowerment. Cynthia is a LinkedIn Top Voice, the author of “The Cure” and “Reach the Top 1%,” the first Black woman to keynote a national sales conference, and the founder of the National Association of Women Sales Professionals. She’s been featured in over 250 media outlets.
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