Salesmen are the dreaded enemy of dinner time and door bells, but making a career in sales doesn’t have to condemn you to being the dreaded enemy. Learn top tips from expert salespeople across the world with these blogs. Train yourself in the latest sales techniques and see what works for the experts. It’s all here in this top 100 list of awesome sales blogs.
Personal Sales Blogs
1. Heavy Hitter Sales Blog – If you’re sick of your sales strategy bunting when it should be hitting home runs, this blog will supercharge your sales game, all while offering practical sales advice for these tough economic times.
2. Garth’s World – Utilizing more humor than most sites, Garth’s world nests all of its advice in blog form, with funny narratives that culminate in practical suggestions.
3. Anthony Cole’s Sales Java Blog – Nearly overflowing with advice, this site offers a number of sales methods broken up by sales type and sales chronology, and also offers tips on how being unique is the best thing you can do in sales.
4. Jonathan Farrington’s Blog – While many sites emphasize the importance of Twitter to sales, few have in-depth articles on how to more influentially tweet, as well as other quirky tips, such as pitching your idea to a bigwig…in the elevator.
5. Alen Majer’s Blog – This site offers tips for presentations, selling your personality, and even the history of American sales culture.
6. Dave Stein’s Blog – All about sales leadership, this site offers interviews, tips, and tricks for improving ineffective sales, hiring the right salespeople, and much more.
7. Hunting Big Sales With Tom Searcy – This site offers tips on what not to do (combining martinis and jet lag while networking), social media incorporation, and riveting podcasts.
8. Kahle Way Sales Blog – Whether you want to improve your professional life or your personal life, the Kahle Way has you covered.
9. Ben Bradley at benbradley.net – It’s all about quick advice here, with tips for dealing with a recession, how to use Twitter, and the efficiency of using Quizno’s as an office treat for workers.
10. Journal of a Sales Professional – Offering a view into the blogger’s “adventures in sales and marketing automation,” this site offers views on sales certification, automatic referral generation, and even how to train a salesperson.
11. Verne Harnish, the “Growth Guy” – This site is all about Verne, offering links to his business-growing blog, weekly insight, informative columns and best practices.
1. Heavy Hitter Sales Blog – If you’re sick of your sales strategy bunting when it should be hitting home runs, this blog will supercharge your sales game, all while offering practical sales advice for these tough economic times.
2. Garth’s World – Utilizing more humor than most sites, Garth’s world nests all of its advice in blog form, with funny narratives that culminate in practical suggestions.
3. Anthony Cole’s Sales Java Blog – Nearly overflowing with advice, this site offers a number of sales methods broken up by sales type and sales chronology, and also offers tips on how being unique is the best thing you can do in sales.
4. Jonathan Farrington’s Blog – While many sites emphasize the importance of Twitter to sales, few have in-depth articles on how to more influentially tweet, as well as other quirky tips, such as pitching your idea to a bigwig…in the elevator.
5. Alen Majer’s Blog – This site offers tips for presentations, selling your personality, and even the history of American sales culture.
6. Dave Stein’s Blog – All about sales leadership, this site offers interviews, tips, and tricks for improving ineffective sales, hiring the right salespeople, and much more.
7. Hunting Big Sales With Tom Searcy – This site offers tips on what not to do (combining martinis and jet lag while networking), social media incorporation, and riveting podcasts.
8. Kahle Way Sales Blog – Whether you want to improve your professional life or your personal life, the Kahle Way has you covered.
9. Ben Bradley at benbradley.net – It’s all about quick advice here, with tips for dealing with a recession, how to use Twitter, and the efficiency of using Quizno’s as an office treat for workers.
10. Journal of a Sales Professional – Offering a view into the blogger’s “adventures in sales and marketing automation,” this site offers views on sales certification, automatic referral generation, and even how to train a salesperson.
11. Verne Harnish, the “Growth Guy” – This site is all about Verne, offering links to his business-growing blog, weekly insight, informative columns and best practices.
Build Up to Corporate and International Clientele Blogs
12. Idea Sellers – This site specializes in new ways of looking at opportunities (witness one of his latest updates, “Thank God for This Economic Crisis”), and also helps sales people see the bigger picture of how the littlest actions affect their sales.
13. The Accidental Negotiator – It’s all about international wisdom here, with tips from France, Japan, and the Middle East.
14. Selling to Big Companies – This blog helps you develop your sales pipeline, outsell the recession, and (of course) use social networking to sell, sell, sell.
15. Heavy Hitter Sales Wisdom – This site offers articles as well as excerpts from the book of the same name, giving you a good mixture of sales tips to bring you’re A game to your sales life.
16. Heavy Hitter Selling – The website for the “prequel” to the previous book, this site lets you view the intro for the book, as well as read more informative articles and excerpts.
17. Sales Force One – How can you “think and sell presidentially” if you haven’t taken a ride in Sales Force One? True to its word, this site offers a mixture of advice, surveys, and general ideas to use new media to foster sales growth.
18. Cindy King – If you need more international clients, you need Cindy King. She helps turn cross-cultural communication into an art.
Tips and Tricks Blogs from Experienced Salespeople
19. Selling for Life – This site mixes often-amusing tales of life (such a mouse visiting the office) with ways of tweaking your old sales concepts (such as telling the would-be-client what you can do for them) into more natural ones (such as crafting your conversation to match their body language).
20. Better Closer – This no-frills site lets you access several updates at a time, helping you use social networking to motivate your sales team, develop leads, and market your business.
21. Seth Godin’s Blog – This quirky site has info on differentiating from business strangers and business friends, permission marketing, the nature of free services, and much more.
22. Sales By 5 – This picture-heavy site helps with your motivation, methods, and sales techniques themselves, focusing on money-saving practical advice (such as how much you might save on direct mail by “Tweeting” advertisements).
23. Steve’s blog… the art & science of the Q-Selling ‘correct questions’ technique in making major sales – Like the name says, this site is all about sales management, sales training, and sales motivation.
24. Sales Pro Insider – This quirky site offers a medley of sales tips, such as how shutting down your life can power it up, building an “e-reputation,” and being “frank about thanks.”
25. The Sales Wars – This site is all about blunt advice (Why did you lose your job? “You either sucked or you were unlucky”), with a focus on getting noticed in an economy that’s bringing in more resumes than ever.
26. The Selling Sherpa – The blogger brings over two decades of experience to the table, and it shows. He offers daily tips focusing on key sales concepts such as dealing with pressure, obtaining info, and how sometimes an “analog” notebook beats the pants offer your PC notebook.
27. The Funnelholic – While “funnelholic” may actually make you think of your old frat buddy Frank, this site’s specialty is for those who “live and work at the top of the b2b funnel,” offering advice on leads, marketing, online media, and more.
28. Diva Sales Tips – This women-centric sales blog offers training, humor, and practical tips for selling like a true diva.
29. Score More Sales – This offers tips on branding, conferencing, and other tips to get you out of your rut.
30. The Salesopedia Blog – This site has tips for sales-helping technology, building loyalty, and how to phrase the perfect question to clients.
31. Skip Anderson’s Selling to Consumers Blog – This site provides humor as well as insight, offering ways of avoiding sales-cliché sleaziness as well as responses to that dreaded customer response, “We’re just not sure.”
32. Engaged Selling Solutions – This site offers book reviews, motivational tips, and practical ideas (such as 7 ways to get your customers to call you back).
33. Shane Gibson’s Closing Bigger Sales Blog and Podcast – The emphasis here is practical advice, such as guerilla social media marketing, and how to replace printed business wisdom with business blogging.
34. Sieze This Day – With advice doled out in small chunks, this site helps you with marketing, network no-no’s, and making social media more personal.
35. The Sales Force Blog – This site comes right out of the gate with amazing tips for time management, prospect profiling, and how to absolve yourself of the sins of a bad sales presentation.
36. The Pipeline – As the name implies, this site is all about building your sales pipeline, utilizing emotional intelligence, sales listening, and time management.
37. Sales Loudmouth – As professional as the salesmen it targets, this site emphasizes relevance, recognition, and courage in your own sales sphere.
38. Pro Sales Guide – This well-organized site lets you immediately access thorough lists of sales training tips, planning tips, and even the 32 worst things you can do in the world of sales.
39. Inside Sales Expert Blog – This site helps you define what sales operations are, whether remote inside sales teams are a good thing, and how to “spin selling” for the recession.
40. SymVolli – With a motto of “Don’t survive…thrive,” this site uses podcasts, down-to-earth advice, and B2B tips to build your sales into the new millennium.
41. Art Sobczak’s Telesales Blog – This site offers info on telesales, prospecting, marketing, and more, and should be checked out ASAP.
42. New Sales Economy Blog – This site emphasizes video links to offer tips on motivation, social media, and creating small business demand for your services.
43. Build a Sales Machine – This site offers tricks for building your pipeline, using the latest B2B data, and thoughts on sales leadership.
44. Pricing On Purpose – This informal, often humorous blog offers surveys of wisdom from around the web, as well as the blogger’s own two cents.
45. Sales Excellence – This site offers humorous advice on what NOT to do with customer, as well as achieving sales velocity and thorough book reviews. And did I mention the top-notch podcast?
46. Ad Sales Blog – This site promises “news, ideas, and strategies to help you sell,” and it delivers, offering a great mixture of digital and print sales tips and tricks.
12. Idea Sellers – This site specializes in new ways of looking at opportunities (witness one of his latest updates, “Thank God for This Economic Crisis”), and also helps sales people see the bigger picture of how the littlest actions affect their sales.
13. The Accidental Negotiator – It’s all about international wisdom here, with tips from France, Japan, and the Middle East.
14. Selling to Big Companies – This blog helps you develop your sales pipeline, outsell the recession, and (of course) use social networking to sell, sell, sell.
15. Heavy Hitter Sales Wisdom – This site offers articles as well as excerpts from the book of the same name, giving you a good mixture of sales tips to bring you’re A game to your sales life.
16. Heavy Hitter Selling – The website for the “prequel” to the previous book, this site lets you view the intro for the book, as well as read more informative articles and excerpts.
17. Sales Force One – How can you “think and sell presidentially” if you haven’t taken a ride in Sales Force One? True to its word, this site offers a mixture of advice, surveys, and general ideas to use new media to foster sales growth.
18. Cindy King – If you need more international clients, you need Cindy King. She helps turn cross-cultural communication into an art.
Tips and Tricks Blogs from Experienced Salespeople
19. Selling for Life – This site mixes often-amusing tales of life (such a mouse visiting the office) with ways of tweaking your old sales concepts (such as telling the would-be-client what you can do for them) into more natural ones (such as crafting your conversation to match their body language).
20. Better Closer – This no-frills site lets you access several updates at a time, helping you use social networking to motivate your sales team, develop leads, and market your business.
21. Seth Godin’s Blog – This quirky site has info on differentiating from business strangers and business friends, permission marketing, the nature of free services, and much more.
22. Sales By 5 – This picture-heavy site helps with your motivation, methods, and sales techniques themselves, focusing on money-saving practical advice (such as how much you might save on direct mail by “Tweeting” advertisements).
23. Steve’s blog… the art & science of the Q-Selling ‘correct questions’ technique in making major sales – Like the name says, this site is all about sales management, sales training, and sales motivation.
24. Sales Pro Insider – This quirky site offers a medley of sales tips, such as how shutting down your life can power it up, building an “e-reputation,” and being “frank about thanks.”
25. The Sales Wars – This site is all about blunt advice (Why did you lose your job? “You either sucked or you were unlucky”), with a focus on getting noticed in an economy that’s bringing in more resumes than ever.
26. The Selling Sherpa – The blogger brings over two decades of experience to the table, and it shows. He offers daily tips focusing on key sales concepts such as dealing with pressure, obtaining info, and how sometimes an “analog” notebook beats the pants offer your PC notebook.
27. The Funnelholic – While “funnelholic” may actually make you think of your old frat buddy Frank, this site’s specialty is for those who “live and work at the top of the b2b funnel,” offering advice on leads, marketing, online media, and more.
28. Diva Sales Tips – This women-centric sales blog offers training, humor, and practical tips for selling like a true diva.
29. Score More Sales – This offers tips on branding, conferencing, and other tips to get you out of your rut.
30. The Salesopedia Blog – This site has tips for sales-helping technology, building loyalty, and how to phrase the perfect question to clients.
31. Skip Anderson’s Selling to Consumers Blog – This site provides humor as well as insight, offering ways of avoiding sales-cliché sleaziness as well as responses to that dreaded customer response, “We’re just not sure.”
32. Engaged Selling Solutions – This site offers book reviews, motivational tips, and practical ideas (such as 7 ways to get your customers to call you back).
33. Shane Gibson’s Closing Bigger Sales Blog and Podcast – The emphasis here is practical advice, such as guerilla social media marketing, and how to replace printed business wisdom with business blogging.
34. Sieze This Day – With advice doled out in small chunks, this site helps you with marketing, network no-no’s, and making social media more personal.
35. The Sales Force Blog – This site comes right out of the gate with amazing tips for time management, prospect profiling, and how to absolve yourself of the sins of a bad sales presentation.
36. The Pipeline – As the name implies, this site is all about building your sales pipeline, utilizing emotional intelligence, sales listening, and time management.
37. Sales Loudmouth – As professional as the salesmen it targets, this site emphasizes relevance, recognition, and courage in your own sales sphere.
38. Pro Sales Guide – This well-organized site lets you immediately access thorough lists of sales training tips, planning tips, and even the 32 worst things you can do in the world of sales.
39. Inside Sales Expert Blog – This site helps you define what sales operations are, whether remote inside sales teams are a good thing, and how to “spin selling” for the recession.
40. SymVolli – With a motto of “Don’t survive…thrive,” this site uses podcasts, down-to-earth advice, and B2B tips to build your sales into the new millennium.
41. Art Sobczak’s Telesales Blog – This site offers info on telesales, prospecting, marketing, and more, and should be checked out ASAP.
42. New Sales Economy Blog – This site emphasizes video links to offer tips on motivation, social media, and creating small business demand for your services.
43. Build a Sales Machine – This site offers tricks for building your pipeline, using the latest B2B data, and thoughts on sales leadership.
44. Pricing On Purpose – This informal, often humorous blog offers surveys of wisdom from around the web, as well as the blogger’s own two cents.
45. Sales Excellence – This site offers humorous advice on what NOT to do with customer, as well as achieving sales velocity and thorough book reviews. And did I mention the top-notch podcast?
46. Ad Sales Blog – This site promises “news, ideas, and strategies to help you sell,” and it delivers, offering a great mixture of digital and print sales tips and tricks.
Marketing for More Sales Blogs
47. Smart Marketing with Customer Loyalty – This site serves as a sort of portal of a number of internal sales blogs, offering you the latest advice at the top and a hip-deep archive of advice at the bottom.
48. Duct Tape Marketing – This site offers thought-provoking editorials, as well as links to advice from around the web, making this an amazing all-purpose site.
49. The Growth Guy – If you want to grow your company and/or yourself, look no further than this site. This blog combines advice from others as well as anecdotes from “The Growth Guy,” so you can stay on top of sales advice with just one site.
50. TrustedAdvisor Associates – This site has tips on behaviors to avoid, making mistrust a thing of the past, and taking the shortest route to sales.
51. Highly Contagious Marketing – If you’d like your marketing to spread like the plague (or at least the swine flu), this site has info on marketing funnels, charged products vs. free products, and focusing on prospects that “get you.”
52. Sales and Marketing Blog – This site cuts to the chase, offering you winning sales questions, tips on how to gauge your product’s value, and the effective use of sales technology.
Managerial and Executive Sales Blogs
53. The Sales Force Blog – A site “dedicated to CEOs, Executives, and Sales Professionals,” it offers tips on time management, profiling, referrals, and much more.
54. Beyond the Boardroom – You don’t need a four-leaf clover with this Ireland-based consultancy that offers tips on customer service, business blogging, and the very future of professional sales.
55. Sales and Sales Management Blog – This site specializes in offering new ways of looking at sales, such as getting introductions instead of referrals, the tactical use of freebies, and what rapport really means.
56. The Rainmaker Maker – Despite the name, this site often poses thoughtful questions to managers, such as whether or not a potential rainmaker would see the person as a manager or just a mark, and whether having a truly gifted rainmaker might tilt the balance of power in the company.
57. Dave Kurlan – Understanding the Sales Force – This site is for sales managers, offering tips on what to tell salespeople in this economy, why corporate training fails, and even how many individuals are in sales that shouldn’t be.
58. Total Sales Manager – This site does things a little differently, such as converting military lessons into sales guides, incorporating the goal-setting advice of Tiger Woods, and much more.
59. Sales Management Today – This picture-filled, easy-to-read site offers advice on sales management, what to do when sales are down, and gauging the effectiveness of sales coaching.
60. The Ultimate Sales Executive Resource – This site offers tips on revenue growth strategies, the role of social media, and even the importance of frequent blog updates.
61. Sales & the City – This site helps you stay committed to goals, recruit better, and how to measure sales effectiveness in our down economy.
62. Managing Salespeople – Another site with an emphasis on practical advice, this page offers tips on scoring free press releases, the role of the sales manager, and how to gauge the customer-friendliness of your sales staff.
47. Smart Marketing with Customer Loyalty – This site serves as a sort of portal of a number of internal sales blogs, offering you the latest advice at the top and a hip-deep archive of advice at the bottom.
48. Duct Tape Marketing – This site offers thought-provoking editorials, as well as links to advice from around the web, making this an amazing all-purpose site.
49. The Growth Guy – If you want to grow your company and/or yourself, look no further than this site. This blog combines advice from others as well as anecdotes from “The Growth Guy,” so you can stay on top of sales advice with just one site.
50. TrustedAdvisor Associates – This site has tips on behaviors to avoid, making mistrust a thing of the past, and taking the shortest route to sales.
51. Highly Contagious Marketing – If you’d like your marketing to spread like the plague (or at least the swine flu), this site has info on marketing funnels, charged products vs. free products, and focusing on prospects that “get you.”
52. Sales and Marketing Blog – This site cuts to the chase, offering you winning sales questions, tips on how to gauge your product’s value, and the effective use of sales technology.
Managerial and Executive Sales Blogs
53. The Sales Force Blog – A site “dedicated to CEOs, Executives, and Sales Professionals,” it offers tips on time management, profiling, referrals, and much more.
54. Beyond the Boardroom – You don’t need a four-leaf clover with this Ireland-based consultancy that offers tips on customer service, business blogging, and the very future of professional sales.
55. Sales and Sales Management Blog – This site specializes in offering new ways of looking at sales, such as getting introductions instead of referrals, the tactical use of freebies, and what rapport really means.
56. The Rainmaker Maker – Despite the name, this site often poses thoughtful questions to managers, such as whether or not a potential rainmaker would see the person as a manager or just a mark, and whether having a truly gifted rainmaker might tilt the balance of power in the company.
57. Dave Kurlan – Understanding the Sales Force – This site is for sales managers, offering tips on what to tell salespeople in this economy, why corporate training fails, and even how many individuals are in sales that shouldn’t be.
58. Total Sales Manager – This site does things a little differently, such as converting military lessons into sales guides, incorporating the goal-setting advice of Tiger Woods, and much more.
59. Sales Management Today – This picture-filled, easy-to-read site offers advice on sales management, what to do when sales are down, and gauging the effectiveness of sales coaching.
60. The Ultimate Sales Executive Resource – This site offers tips on revenue growth strategies, the role of social media, and even the importance of frequent blog updates.
61. Sales & the City – This site helps you stay committed to goals, recruit better, and how to measure sales effectiveness in our down economy.
62. Managing Salespeople – Another site with an emphasis on practical advice, this page offers tips on scoring free press releases, the role of the sales manager, and how to gauge the customer-friendliness of your sales staff.
Lead Generating Blogs
63. Insights Into Cold Calling – As you might expect from the name, this site is all about cold calling, and the 21st-century tricks you can use to spice up the 20th-century cold calling techniques.
64. Dig It – This oft-update site offers practical advice on networking, sales hooks, cold calls, and much more.
65. B2B Lead Generation Blog – All about B2B, this blog helps you out with “lead generation, sales leads, and marketing for the complex sale.”
66. Wendy Weiss The Queen of Cold Calling – This site is all about cold calling, offers podcasts, products, and recommendations for warming up the coldest of calls.
Online Sales Blogs
67. The Virtual Handshake – Helping with “opening doors and close deals online,” this amusing site mixes pictures, poetry, web comics, and plain advice on using the internet to enhance your business model.
68. Sales 2.0 – This site is chock full of amusing sales anecdotes that help figure out what to do—and what not to do—for sales marketing, sales media, and sales sanity.
69. “Cold Calling 2.0″ Ebook and Success Kit – For just $27, you can have this comprehensive kit (including guides, tools, templates, and lead recommendations) to help bring your sales strategy into the 21st century.
70. Sellsellsell – This site gives you quick, easy access to podcasts, Ebooks, and articles helping you to…well…sell, sell, sell.
71. Fill the Funnel … view from the street – This site promises “web tools for sales makers” and delivers, offering advice on getting the domain name you want, sales-friendly iPhone applications, and how the web can help you stop cold-calling altogether.
72. S&MM Standoff – This site offers tips on integrating Facebook into your business (or perhaps vice versa), as well as perfecting your sales hooks and avoiding deadly sales pitfalls.
73. Sales Management 2.0 – With a more personal touch, this blog counsels its advice in the (mis)adventures of its blogger host, with amusing tales that always tell you why you shouldn’t do something.
Sales Motivation and Coaching Blogs
74. The Sales Hunter’s Sales Motivation Blog – In this blog, the Sales Hunter offers tips for cold calling, negotiation, and just plain keeping your motivation high.
75. Increase Sales Coach – This site is all about offering you quick references for better sales, such as “3 core principles to increase sales” and “6 seconds to win in sales.”
76. Sales Job Interview Questions & Sales Interview Tips – Just like it sounds, this site is all about bringing you to the front of the pack for sales jobs, with advice on the interview, your resume, and assorted tips and tricks.
77. Startup Sales Mentor – This site offers podcasts and frequent Twitter roundups, helping you stay on top of the world of start-up sales.
78. Keith Rosen’s Executive Sales Coaching Blog on Selling, Leadership, Management – This site offers sample interview questions to help you recruit the best, how to actually get back the buyers that say they’ll be back, and many other practical tips.
Sales News and Fun Stuff
79. Sales Bloggers Union – This site offers an Ebook at the best price (free), as well tips on sales management, technology, and motivation.
80. Top Sales Blog – This site brings your salesmanship into the 21st century, with tips on recruiting, qualifying, and the recognition of top sales people.
81. Alltop – This is a great portal site to other sales blogs. Quickly scan the newest posts from dozens of blogs, and read only what you want to.
82. CloserQ Sales/Business Blog – This site is structured as an ongoing Q and A session, wherein you write your sales stumpers to them and listen to thorough answers by an amazing sales group.
83. Pebblestorm – This site offers visual business plans, sales videos, and sales book recommendations.
84. The Sales Blog – This site’s specialty is “Weekend Reading,” which takes sales articles and breaks them into a series of “money quotes,” and invites you to comment on them.
85. Sales Machine – In between posts about sales negotiations and sales messages are compilations of the world’s funniest auto ads and world’s sexist beer ads, making this sight as spicy as it is insightful.
86. SalesJournal.com – This site offers advice on the best data services, effective cold calling techniques, and how cultural differences should (and shouldn’t) affect a sales force evaluation.
87. The Passive Pipeline – This site has info on the software, books, and general info to build your sales trickle into a sales overflow.
88. The Customer Collective – This slick, sleek site offers interviews, Live Event links, and much more to put you in touch with the customer collective.
89. QBS: Question Based Selling – This site offers practical info, such as selling your intangible services and navigating the 401(k) blues.
90. SalesResources.com – This site intends to be your one-stop shop for sales resources, offering articles, videos, jobs, a newsletter, and much more.
91. Church of the Customer Blog – This site features info on recession-era marketing, creative use of keywords, and how to have fun with advertisement.
92. Shift – The primary focus of this site is what NOT to do, offering detailed (and often funny) tales of sales woes.
Sales Start-Ups, Small Business and Training Blogs
93. StartUpNation – If you’re starting a business, start here. They have tips on marketing, trendsetting, and franchise organization.
94. The Entrepreneurial Sales Blog – This site offers top tips, thoughts for the day, and podcasts so that you can get the commissions and sales that you deserve.
95. The Presenters’ Blog – This site is all about building your public-speaking skills, from word choice to body language to calming your nerves.
96. Professional Sales Training – Offering skills, techniques, and even scripts, this site will enhance every aspect of your sales.
97. From The Heart Sales Training Blog – Helping to combat the image of sales people as untrustworthy, this site is all about leading from the heart to make your sales approach a little more human.
98. Professional Outside Sales – This site offers unique advice, such as the benefits of increasing your sales staff during lean economic times, the importance of good office chairs, and how to avoid business cards that are “crap.”
99. Fearless Selling – This small-business friendly site offers tips on competing against bigger companies, the pitfalls of persuasion, and what not to do if you want to keep a sale.
100. SmarTrack – Designed exclusively for small businesses, this site offers coaching, start-up help, marketing help, and more.
63. Insights Into Cold Calling – As you might expect from the name, this site is all about cold calling, and the 21st-century tricks you can use to spice up the 20th-century cold calling techniques.
64. Dig It – This oft-update site offers practical advice on networking, sales hooks, cold calls, and much more.
65. B2B Lead Generation Blog – All about B2B, this blog helps you out with “lead generation, sales leads, and marketing for the complex sale.”
66. Wendy Weiss The Queen of Cold Calling – This site is all about cold calling, offers podcasts, products, and recommendations for warming up the coldest of calls.
Online Sales Blogs
67. The Virtual Handshake – Helping with “opening doors and close deals online,” this amusing site mixes pictures, poetry, web comics, and plain advice on using the internet to enhance your business model.
68. Sales 2.0 – This site is chock full of amusing sales anecdotes that help figure out what to do—and what not to do—for sales marketing, sales media, and sales sanity.
69. “Cold Calling 2.0″ Ebook and Success Kit – For just $27, you can have this comprehensive kit (including guides, tools, templates, and lead recommendations) to help bring your sales strategy into the 21st century.
70. Sellsellsell – This site gives you quick, easy access to podcasts, Ebooks, and articles helping you to…well…sell, sell, sell.
71. Fill the Funnel … view from the street – This site promises “web tools for sales makers” and delivers, offering advice on getting the domain name you want, sales-friendly iPhone applications, and how the web can help you stop cold-calling altogether.
72. S&MM Standoff – This site offers tips on integrating Facebook into your business (or perhaps vice versa), as well as perfecting your sales hooks and avoiding deadly sales pitfalls.
73. Sales Management 2.0 – With a more personal touch, this blog counsels its advice in the (mis)adventures of its blogger host, with amusing tales that always tell you why you shouldn’t do something.
Sales Motivation and Coaching Blogs
74. The Sales Hunter’s Sales Motivation Blog – In this blog, the Sales Hunter offers tips for cold calling, negotiation, and just plain keeping your motivation high.
75. Increase Sales Coach – This site is all about offering you quick references for better sales, such as “3 core principles to increase sales” and “6 seconds to win in sales.”
76. Sales Job Interview Questions & Sales Interview Tips – Just like it sounds, this site is all about bringing you to the front of the pack for sales jobs, with advice on the interview, your resume, and assorted tips and tricks.
77. Startup Sales Mentor – This site offers podcasts and frequent Twitter roundups, helping you stay on top of the world of start-up sales.
78. Keith Rosen’s Executive Sales Coaching Blog on Selling, Leadership, Management – This site offers sample interview questions to help you recruit the best, how to actually get back the buyers that say they’ll be back, and many other practical tips.
Sales News and Fun Stuff
79. Sales Bloggers Union – This site offers an Ebook at the best price (free), as well tips on sales management, technology, and motivation.
80. Top Sales Blog – This site brings your salesmanship into the 21st century, with tips on recruiting, qualifying, and the recognition of top sales people.
81. Alltop – This is a great portal site to other sales blogs. Quickly scan the newest posts from dozens of blogs, and read only what you want to.
82. CloserQ Sales/Business Blog – This site is structured as an ongoing Q and A session, wherein you write your sales stumpers to them and listen to thorough answers by an amazing sales group.
83. Pebblestorm – This site offers visual business plans, sales videos, and sales book recommendations.
84. The Sales Blog – This site’s specialty is “Weekend Reading,” which takes sales articles and breaks them into a series of “money quotes,” and invites you to comment on them.
85. Sales Machine – In between posts about sales negotiations and sales messages are compilations of the world’s funniest auto ads and world’s sexist beer ads, making this sight as spicy as it is insightful.
86. SalesJournal.com – This site offers advice on the best data services, effective cold calling techniques, and how cultural differences should (and shouldn’t) affect a sales force evaluation.
87. The Passive Pipeline – This site has info on the software, books, and general info to build your sales trickle into a sales overflow.
88. The Customer Collective – This slick, sleek site offers interviews, Live Event links, and much more to put you in touch with the customer collective.
89. QBS: Question Based Selling – This site offers practical info, such as selling your intangible services and navigating the 401(k) blues.
90. SalesResources.com – This site intends to be your one-stop shop for sales resources, offering articles, videos, jobs, a newsletter, and much more.
91. Church of the Customer Blog – This site features info on recession-era marketing, creative use of keywords, and how to have fun with advertisement.
92. Shift – The primary focus of this site is what NOT to do, offering detailed (and often funny) tales of sales woes.
Sales Start-Ups, Small Business and Training Blogs
93. StartUpNation – If you’re starting a business, start here. They have tips on marketing, trendsetting, and franchise organization.
94. The Entrepreneurial Sales Blog – This site offers top tips, thoughts for the day, and podcasts so that you can get the commissions and sales that you deserve.
95. The Presenters’ Blog – This site is all about building your public-speaking skills, from word choice to body language to calming your nerves.
96. Professional Sales Training – Offering skills, techniques, and even scripts, this site will enhance every aspect of your sales.
97. From The Heart Sales Training Blog – Helping to combat the image of sales people as untrustworthy, this site is all about leading from the heart to make your sales approach a little more human.
98. Professional Outside Sales – This site offers unique advice, such as the benefits of increasing your sales staff during lean economic times, the importance of good office chairs, and how to avoid business cards that are “crap.”
99. Fearless Selling – This small-business friendly site offers tips on competing against bigger companies, the pitfalls of persuasion, and what not to do if you want to keep a sale.
100. SmarTrack – Designed exclusively for small businesses, this site offers coaching, start-up help, marketing help, and more.
Become a fierce salesperson and have a brand new bag of tricks to improve your sales skills from reading the blogs that make the best salespeople the best. Next thing you know, you’ll be starting your own expert sales blog to help beginners or veterans looking for a fresh perspective just like yourself.
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