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Sales Homie, led by Nate Zoellner, has over 23 years of sales & marketing, management, and senior leadership experience. Currently, Nate is a corporate executive and sales leader for a domestic facility services organization that has grown from $35M to over $100M. Nate carries a growth mindset in all that he does, recognizing the power of teamwork, collaboration, strategy, and differentiation, to fuel personal and organizational successes.
👨🏻💻 The Modern Salesperson is Becoming a Data-Entry Clerk
Pipedrive, the easy and intelligent CRM for small and medium-sized businesses, released its CRM Trends Report 2026, revealing that despite years of advances in CRM software and AI, administrative work continues to dominate the modern sales role. The survey of 1,000 U.S. sales and marketing professionals found that nearly four times as many respondents are focused on logging calls, emails, and meetings as advancing prospect conversations and closing deals, while 42% say non-revenue-generating tasks consume at least 40% of their day...
⚖️ B2B Customer Experience Is At An Inflection Point. Here Is The Question Every Leader Should Be Asking
B2B customer experience is reaching an inflection point as buyers' expectations rise, service channels multiply, and AI reshapes how teams operate. Yet many organizations are still relying on outdated systems, siloed data, and reactive support models. To stay competitive, B2B teams must modernize their CX strategy, unify customer context, and prepare for a faster, more intelligent era of customer engagement...
💻 Why LinkedIn Engagement Is Becoming One Of The Most Valuable Sales Signals
For years, B2B sales teams operated on a simple premise: find the right job title, obtain contact information, and begin outreach. The approach worked when inboxes were less crowded, and buyers had fewer channels competing for their attention. The challenge today is no longer identifying prospects, but identifying them at the right time...
📚 In Sales, Discipline Is The Shortcut You’re Searching For
Everybody wants the shortcut. The growth hack, the overnight success story, the AI strategy that promises instant efficiency gains while completely overlooking the compliance, regulatory, and contractual landmines sitting underneath the operation. They’re waiting for a magic sales strategy, or one podcast episode that transforms a struggling company into a market leader by Tuesday morning...
🧰 Your Growth Strategy Has A Blind Spot. Here’s How To Fix It.
Here is a question most product manufacturers never ask: of every dollar your existing customers could spend with you, how much are you actually capturing? Not your revenue. Not your growth rate. The share of available spend — from accounts you already own — that you are leaving on the table. For most manufacturers, the honest answer is: we don’t know. And that gap is often the highest-return growth opportunity in the business...
🪜 7 Steps To Advance Any Deal Forward
When you have a plan for every conversation, you build momentum. You transform form a vendor pitching a product into a strategic partner guiding a solution. This approach not only shortens sales cycles but also builds the kind of trust that turns skeptical stakeholders into your biggest advocates. It’s how you create predictable revenue, not just a pipeline of maybes...
🙋🏼♂️ Survey: 69% of B2B Buyers Turn to Sales Reps to Validate AI-Generated Insights
Sixty-nine percent of B2B buyers prefer to validate AI-generated insights with sales reps, according to a survey by Gartner, Inc., a business and technology insights company. A survey conducted from August through September 2025 found that B2B buyers are increasingly using...