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The Player-Coach Problem: How to Prospect and Lead at the Same Time (Ask Jeb)

One of the hardest roles in all of sales is the player-coach. You are quota-carrying, deal-closing, pipeline-building individual contributor AND you are expected to show up as a sales leader, sit in planning meetings, and help stand up a division.…

Sales coasting is the quiet career killer no one talks about. Jeb Blount Jr. shares how ice skating — and getting lapped by a six-year-old — broke him out of a sales slump and delivered his best quarter ever. Read the full blog by the number one sales training company

I Was Coasting in Sales Until a Six-Year-Old Humbled Me on the Ice (Money Monday)

Summary Sales coasting is a silent career killer: it feels fine on the inside, but slowly drains the skills you've built. The "expert trap" convinces experienced reps there's nothing left to learn. It's wrong, and it's dangerous. Picking up a…

Why your LinkedIn prospecting isn’t building pipeline and how to fix it with a simple, repeatable system that drives real sales conversations. Sales Gravy helps business development reps and sales leaders make more revenue fast using their world class sales training methodologies.

All Activity, No Pipeline: Why Your LinkedIn Prospecting Isn’t Working

You're on LinkedIn every day. You're posting, commenting, engaging with prospects, and doing everything the “experts” told you to do. Your activity metrics look great. Your pipeline looks terrible. And you can't figure out why. I had this exact conversation…

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AI Will Not Kill Sales. But It Will Punish Mediocrity. (Ask Jeb)

Caroline from Dayton, Ohio asked a question a lot of salespeople are wrestling with right now: How do you use AI efficiently without losing your human touch? It is a great question. And the answer is simpler than you think,…

Sales Gravy senior master trainer Brad Adams teaching sales professionals how to protect golden hours and prioritize prospecting — Sales Gravy University, the number one sales training company.

Stop Letting Busy Work Steal Your Golden Hours (Money Monday)

We all have the same number of hours in a week. The same golden hours. Yet so many sales reps do a poor job of protecting them. I have a customer who sells into manufacturing. One of their top reps,…

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Why Your Best Salespeople Make Terrible Sales Leaders 

You just promoted your top performer to your newest sales leader. They crushed quota six quarters in a row. Closes deals in their sleep. Customers love them. The team respects them.  On paper, it's a no-brainer. Six months later, the…

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Why Your Prospects Are Ghosting Your Meetings (Ask Jeb)

Here's a question that should stop you in your tracks: What do you do when you're booking meetings but prospects keep ghosting you? That was the challenge posed by Brittany, a sales rep watching her show rates crater quarter after…

Have you ever had a moment where the answer you were looking for was right in front of you? I'm talking about a giant neon sign moment where you realize that a strategy is working, and the proof is undeniable. Today, I want to share a quick story about an unexpected moment of validation that I recently had, and the valuable lesson that every top producer needs to keep front of mind. The Annual Sales Summit That Changed Everything I have a client that I've worked with for several years now. Each month, I deliver virtual training workshops focused on different areas of sales. Some months our topic will be on prospecting best practices, and other months we may focus on things like sales negotiation skills or how to advance deals in the pipeline. These workshops are optional for the sales team to attend at this particular company. So recently, I was invited to attend their annual sales summit. It was the first time that I'd be putting faces to names and shaking hands with the people who showed up to my sessions, month after month. It was a pretty big event. There were hundreds of members of the sales team from around the US. After grabbing my badge at the registration desk, I walked towards the main event space, and the sound of hundreds of conversations filled the room. It was that feeling of energy and the buzz of excitement when you're surrounded by people who are having fun together. As I walked through the mingling crowds, I saw it. There was a giant board, I'm guessing about five feet tall, and at the top it read "Top Producers of the Year." Now, if you're in sales, you know what these boards represent. It's ultimate recognition. It's a testament to consistency, grit, and incredibly hard work. It's the top of the mountain. I found myself looking through the photos and the names. These were my clients' top producers, the ones who really earned their spot. And as I looked at each photo, a pattern started to emerge. I noticed a face that I recognized and then another. And then another. I couldn't help but start to smile as I kept scrolling through this list of the fifteen names on the wall. All but one of them were people who were showing up to the monthly workshops month after month. I was shocked. Not just proud, but genuinely humbled. Now, I'd like to believe that our training played a part in their success. But the truth is, they earned it. Their spot on that board, their results, their massive recognition—it was a direct reflection of the continuous investments that they had been making in themselves. They didn't wait to be great. They were proactively working on stepping up their skills one month at a time. The One Thing You Need to Remember Now, if you take one thing from this article, let it be this: top producers don't wait for success. They prepare for it. That board wasn't just a list of the most talented sales reps. It was also a list of the most intentional. It was a direct consequence of four behaviors that they had displayed: Showed up to the monthly workshops even though they were optional. Asked hard questions in these workshops. Applied new techniques and tools and put them into action immediately. Treated sharpening their skills as a non-negotiable. Here's the truth: the person who dedicates one hour a week to getting better will always beat the person who's naturally gifted, but a little lazy. Intention beats talent every single time. 6 Best Practices to Inject Intention Into Your Week So how do you inject that kind of intention into your own week? Here are six best practices to help you: 1. Show Up Before You Need To These top sales reps on the board didn't wait for their production to dip before they started investing in training. They were already winning, and they still kept showing up. Skill building is like compounding interest. Small, consistent investments create exponential returns. 2. Treat Sales Training Like a Workout You don't go to the gym once and expect to be in shape. You show up three times a week for a year. That's how you need to approach your professional development. Consistency is greater than intensity. Every session you attend adds a new tool, a perspective, or an edge to sharpen your game. 3. Decide That You Are Always a Learner The reps who excelled weren't afraid to ask questions that other people might consider basic. They were seeking clarity, not just validation. Remember, ego is expensive. Curiosity is profitable. Never stop being the most curious person in the room. 4. Don't Confuse Activity for Growth Many sales reps are busy; they're active. But how many are truly intentional about growth? Top producers set aside uninterrupted time for professional development even when their schedule is getting full. So block out time to get better, not just to do more. 5. Implement One Thing Immediately After attending a workshop or even listening to a podcast episode, challenge yourself to pick one tactic to put into action within twenty-four hours. Knowledge is power. Implementation is what turns that knowledge into results. 6. Surround Yourself with Other Top Performers It's easy in sales to get frustrated when we lose a deal or when things are not going our way. By surrounding yourself with other top performers, you're going to help lift yourself up in those moments when you need a little extra support and motivation. Why This Moment Mattered Seeing that board of top performers, that physical printed validation, it really struck me—the emotion of realizing that the reps who had quietly and consistently invested in themselves all year long, had literally risen to the top. It was a powerful moment and reminded me why not only I do the work that I do, but it absolutely confirmed that top performers are the ones disciplined enough to invest in themselves. I encourage you to commit to just one of these six tips that I shared today. Write it down and put it into action within twenty-four hours. Momentum doesn't come from waiting. It comes from action. Listen to the full episode on the Sales Gravy Podcast, the number one sales training podcast.

4 Behaviors That Put You on the Top Sales Producer Board (Money Monday)

Have you ever had a moment where the answer you were looking for was right in front of you? I'm talking about a giant neon sign moment where you realize that a strategy is working, and the proof is undeniable.…

Learn how to read high-ticket prospects’ unspoken signals and speak their language to close more deals in complex sales. Read the full blog by Jeb Blount Jr, Sales Gravy Sales Trainer, the number one sales training company.

How to Know What High Ticket Sales Prospects Actually Want

Morgan Keim, founder of Ocean Ridge Capital, raised over $400 million in venture capital before he turned 35. One of his companies alone pulled in over $300 million pre-revenue—convincing pension funds and VCs to invest hundreds of millions in a…

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When Your Product Is a Commodity, You Are the Differentiator (Ask Jeb)

Here's a question that cuts to the heart of what makes sales hard: What do you do when your commodity is identical to every competitor's, the buyer knows it, and the only lever they want to pull is price? That's…

Sales will always be a grind. The calls don't make themselves. The pipeline doesn't fill itself. The deals don't close themselves. But grinding without certainty is just another form of suffering. It's unsustainable. Eventually, you get frustrated, burn out, and give up. Certainty doesn't eliminate the hard work but it does make the hard work sustainable.

Why Grind Without Tenacity is Not Enough to Hit Quota (Money Monday)

You've heard people say, "Sales is a grind." And they're right. Sales requires relentless effort. You've got to make the calls, run the process, deal with internal roadblocks, handle piles of rejection, and show up every day with a smile…

I spent an afternoon at Ramsey Solutions in Tennessee with Jason Williams, Vice President Sales for the EntreLeadership Divison. What stood out wasn't the size of the operation or the fancy building. It was walking into a room where sales reps genuinely wanted to talk to their leader. Most sales floors feel like number factories. Reps avoid their managers. One-on-ones get rescheduled. And everyone wonders why performance stays flat despite "investing in our people." Sales leaders say coaching matters. They talk about developing talent. Then they spend their days staring at dashboards and asking why the team isn't getting better. Real sales coaching looks nothing like what most organizations call coaching. And after watching Jason work, I'm reminded why so few leaders actually get this right. Listen to the full episode of the Sales Gravy podcast with Jeb Blount, the number one sales training podcast.

Inside Ramsey Solutions’ Coaching Framework for High-Performance Sales Teams

I spent an afternoon at Ramsey Solutions in Tennessee with Jason Williams, Vice President of Sales for the EntreLeadership Division. What stood out wasn't the size of the operation or the fancy building. It was walking into a room where…