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The Sales Advantage Podcast — 177 episodes

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1

The Data the Industry Is Missing

2

Windshield Math: What Is Driving Really Costing You?

3

The First 5 Days of the Month Determine Your Entire Month

4

What Happens When Life Disrupts Your Sales Routine

5

Your Customers Didn’t Say No, You Just Didn’t Follow Up

6

Stop Waiting For Permission To Sell Better

7

Hybrid Sales Is Not Optional Anymore. Here’s Why

8

Why Every Business Should Have Inside Sales

9

Start Guiding. How One Conversation Changes Everything in Retail

10

If You Don’t Plan Q2 Now, You’ll Feel It in June

11

Stop Starting Over Every Month

12

Why Investing in Yourself Is The Ultimate Sales Advantage

13

Hybrid Sales Advantage vs CRM Advantage: Which Program Is Right for You

14

Customization Is The New Competitive Advantage: Why One Size Fits All No Longer Works

15

You Didn’t Go To Market For A Tote Bag: How To Turn Show Conversations Into Revenue

16

Why Building Trusts With Customers Means Everything

17

Stop Doing These Bad Sales Habits

18

Overwhelmed With So Much To Do? Do This First!

19

If Your Customers Aren’t Ordering, Is It The Market Or Your Strategy?

20

Breaking Out Of The Old Way Of Selling With Jeni Rieger

21

What Law Enforcement Taught Me About Sales, Trust, And Follow-Through With Derek Grooters

22

Inside Gift & Home Is Becoming The Sales Advantage Podcast

23

Stop Winging It: Build Your 90-Day Hybrid Sales Plan for 2026

24

The Best Question You Can Ask Your Customers in 2026

25

Sales Is a Sport: Why Winning in 2026 Starts With the Reps You Take Today

26

Why Balance is Your Secret Sales Strategy for 2026

27

Clear The Clutter In Your Brain: How To Free Your Mind To Sell Smarter 

28

The Old Way Is Holding You Back: How Hybrid Sales Builds Vendor Trust And Momentum

29

The Chaos Cure: Managing Customers in the Hybrid Sales Era

30

Sticky Notes Aren’t a Strategy: A Smarter Way to Follow Up

31

Stop Wasting Windshield Time – The New Way to Manage Travel and Time

32

From Organizational Chaos to Clarity: Why Sales Reps Need a CRM Now

33

You have Time interview with Lissa Figgins

34

Research Before You Reach Out: How to Create a Personalized Sales Approach That Works

35

Balancing Service and Sales: How to Build Trust and Still Grow Your Business

36

Stop Being Forgotten: How to Stay Top of Mind Without Being Pushy

37

How To Be Uncopyable With Kay Miller

38

Mind Over Emotions: Why Your Feelings Aren’t Always the Truth

39

Stop Comparing, Start Competing: Breaking Free From Envy

40

How I Reset My Mindset When I’m Ready to Give Up

41

Two Paths, One Choice: Shift Your Sales Mindset to Escape the Overwhelm

42

Where the Gift & Home Industry Is Falling Behind 

43

The Top 5 CRM Mistakes Gift & Home Companies Make (And How to Avoid Them)

44

HubSpot 101 for the Gift & Home Industry: What It Is, What It Does, and How We Help

45

Simplifying HubSpot for the Gift & Home Industry: A Conversation with Bethany Turner of Core Elements

46

Leadership Unlocked With Dusty Holcomb

47

Your Show Follow-Up Strategy Is Probably 50% Too Late

48

Clearing the Way for Growth with Kate Duff of Claxton Collective

49

The Regrets of a Road Rep: What I Wish I Knew Sooner

50

How to Turn a One-Time Faire Order into a Long-Term Customer

51

Reps, Retailers, and the New Rules of Loyalty

52

Hate Phone Calls? Gain Confidence

53

Why Your Reorders Are Slipping Through the Cracks

54

Booked & Ready Trade Show Appointments

55

The Mindset Shift to Make Right Now

56

Keep The Human, Add The System

57

Maximizing Your Territory Without Adding More Miles

58

Survival Mode vs. Growth Mode

59

How Many Touchpoints Does It Really Take?

60

Lost Sales: The Hidden Cost of Dormant Accounts

61

Innovating Through Slow Sales

62

The Power Of Personalization In B2B Sales

63

Why NY NOW with Amy Loewenberg

64

Leveraging Customer Engagement Data for Sales Success

65

The Buying Mindset – What Drives Consumer vs. Retailer Decisions?

66

Why Does Profit Margin Matter?

67

Corporate Gifting: Interview With Anna Otto

68

I Want New Customers!

69

Part 2 Conversation With Paul Jarrett

70

Part 1 Conversation With Paul Jarrett

71

This Day 14 Years Ago….

72

2024 Year-End Wrap-Up

73

Faith, Family and Friends

74

Setting Goals for the New Year!

75

Creating a Community of Supporters for Mutual Growth

76

Collaboration: It All Starts with a Conversation

77

The Road to 100: My Journey and The Future of Gift & Home

78

The Power of Mentoring with Maggie Scolieri

79

Shifting your Mindset to the Value You Provide

80

Understanding Open to Buy

81

Interview with Landon Metts

82

Lessons from 5 years in Business

83

Essential Formulas for Sales Reps - Part 2

84

Essential Formulas for Buyers - Part 1

85

Handling Seasonal Sales Fluctuations

86

What Hybrid Does for Sales Reps: Interview with Christie Jones

87

What's the Big Deal about Hybrid

88

There's got to be a better way!

89

Diving Deep into Your Customer List

90

Ask For Help

91

The Process of Making Decisions

92

Heart On Main Street with Patrick Keiser

93

Harvesting from Planted Seeds

94

Planting Seeds & Nurturing for Growth

95

Harness the power of Hybrid - Part 2

96

Harness the power of Hybrid - Part 1

97

A Good Ol' Checklist

98

Discover relationship-based sales

99

Bring Life to the Numbers

100

Show Boat

101

Outsource vs Insource

102

Reps are Local too with Angela Schmook

103

See Sales Management Differently with Sara Enzbrenner & Emma Sorenson

104

Encouragement for Your Journey

105

Road Rep to Inside Sales with Lisa Carik

106

Remote or Not!

107

Your Unique Story

108

Consistency is My Superpower

109

Pace for the Chase

110

Circle Back

111

Lean Into Your Strengths

112

Embracing Weakness: A Path to Growth

113

This One Question

114

Key Account Success with Michelle Manningham

115

Learn about GSMA

116

Closing the Gap

117

Call & Find Out

118

Hybrid: Today's Sales Approach

119

Break Down to Build Up

120

Supporting Sales Reps

121

How to Follow-Up

122

Formula for Sales

123

Show Mode, Go!

124

Learn more about GHTA with Bob Watson

125

Do I need a sales rep?

126

How does inside sales fit in?

127

How can websites work for everyone?

128

Is Faire fair?

129

Should I attend trade shows?

130

Dealing with Upset Customers

131

An App, A Book, & A Practice

132

Building All Kinds of Strength

133

Relationships Rule

134

Empower Your Sales Team

135

Manage the Chaos

136

Expanding Business: 4th Quarter Wake Up Call

137

Training: 4th Quarter Wake-Up Call

138

4th Quarter Wake-Up Call

139

Solve the Problem: Interview with Molly Wilson

140

Lessons on Leadership

141

Beyond the Boss : Interview with Lisa Wohlhart

142

Serving Your Customers

143

Ready for Inside Sales Advantage?

144

Where in the world are your customers?

145

Hiring Inside Sales Professionals

146

What can support markets and sales reps?

147

What about Underperforming Territories?

148

How to Handle Open Territories?

149

How can a Sales Focus Calendar help me?

150

SWTA Specialty Wholesale Talent Assoication

151

Inspiring the Next Step with Tara Dikos

152

Maximize Trade Show Leads

153

Retailer Monica Freeborn of Amethyst Home

154

Inside Sales Model with Michael Sheck

155

Online Platform Positivity

156

Websites Win

157

Make the Most of Social Media

158

Learn & Do Something New

159

Fear of Rejection

160

A Sales Pep Talk

161

What should you be selling now?

162

CRMs : What to Look For!

163

Fall in Love with Inside Sales

164

Connect, Ask & Close

165

Creating an Industry Network with Valerie Underwood

166

The Impact You Make

167

From Retailer to Sales Rep : Ruth Grigson Interview

168

Many Hands Make Light Work

169

Get Tasks Done with Time Blocks

170

Retail Wisdom from MaryLiz Curtin of Leon & Lulu

171

Research Your Customers

172

Engage with People

173

Market Follow-Up Process

174

Industry Relationships & Shannon Wright

175

A Show Plan with Goals

176

New Start, New Motivation

177

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