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8 Sales Experts to Follow in 2021

Keep Your Feed Fresh With These 8 Sales Experts to Watch in 2021

Sales pros know how valuable quality content and insight is when it makes people better at their job. After all, many of us strive to provide these very materials for prospects and customers as part of a buyer-first experience.

Of course, salespeople too can benefit from impactful tips and takes pertaining to their profession. Smart thought leadership and incisive commentary helps us stay on top of our game and ahead of the curve. To keep your feed full of interesting and useful content, we recently compiled a list of 15 sales influencers worth following in 2021. Today we're adding on with eight more sales experts who've caught our attention.

Interested? Simply click on their names and hit “Follow” on their profiles to add them to your LinkedIn feed and make the most of your time scrolling. 

Paul Castain

Chief Sales Officer, Castain Training Systems

Bold, irreverent and insightful, Paul’s feed is packed with links to sales tips, playbooks, blog posts and more. Since starting his company 2011, he’s helped train over 20K pros to sell more. Paul is also host of The Sales Playbook Podcast, and has been featured in Selling Power Magazine, Success Magazine, and Forbes.

Marcus Chan

President / Founder, Venli Consulting Group LLC

Marcus put in the hustle, sweat and hard work to go from selling Speedos to selling seven-figure contracts. Today he’s a LinkedIn Top Voice in Sales, an Executive Member of the Forbes Business Council, and on a mission to serve others by helping 1M+ B2B salespeople sell more in 2021. 

Scott Douglas Clary

SVP Revenue, ExciteM | Host, Success Story Podcast | Founder, ROI Overload, Grass Valley

His massive jump in LinkedIn followers from 5,000 to 100K in a mere year and a half is just one indication that Scott has a magnetic way about him. And also that he’s quite the busy guy. Scott’s been featured in Forbes, is a co-author and contributor of Finding Sales Success On LinkedIn, and hosts the Success Story Podcast

Dale Dupree

Founder & CEO, The Sales Rebellion

Ready to join a Sales Rebellion? Follow Dale. With takes on bringing love back to sales, radically educating customers at first touch, and seeing your sales territory as community, Dale offers an entirely unique and engaging spin on the sales-as-usual story. He’s also the host of the Selling Local Podcast.

Timothy (Tim) Hughes

CEO & Co-Founder, DLA Ignite

Tim has a top trending post #SocialSelling with over 51K mentions, and a desire to help transform companies as well as people’s lives. His most recent book, Smarketing: How to Achieve Competitive Advantage through Blended Sales and Marketing, focuses on helping organizations consolidate their sales and marketing into one, streamlined “smarketing” department.

Chaniqua (Nikki) Ivey

Co-Founder, SDRDefenders

Nikki is a 10+ year sales pro who has built a large community of sales development reps through her motivational and tactical content to help inspire improvement. She’s also a strong voice for working with others to create an inclusive, diverse industry that hasn’t existed for the majority of her career.

Donald C. Kelly

Founder and The Chief Sales Evangelist, The Sales Evangelist

For a healthy dose of inspiration in your B2B sales journey, Donald’s feed is quickly becoming a go-to resource. From evangelizing on key sales strategies and trends to his energetic TSE Podcast that publishes three new episodes every week, Donald delivers.

Amy Volas

Founder & CEO, Avenue Talent Partners

Named as one of the most dynamic women in sales by LinkedIn in 2020, Amy helps startups hire sales leaders “without the cringe.” Her enterprise sales career in startups with over $100M+ in closed revenue equips Amy with a wealth of knowledge to share that other recruiters simply don't have.

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