Top 100 Sales Methodologists
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Neil Rackham
SPIN Selling
Matthew Dixon
The Challenger Sale, The Challenger Customer, The JOLT Effect
Brent Adamson
The Challenger Sale co-author, "sense-making seller"
Jeb Blount
Fanatical Prospecting, Sales EQ
Anthony Iannarino
The Lost Art of Closing, Eat Their Lunch
Mike Weinberg
New Sales. Simplified.
Jack Daly
sales-management coaching frameworks
Jim Holden
Holden Power Base Selling
Robert Miller
Strategic Selling (Miller Heiman)
Stephen Heiman
Strategic Selling co-author
Tad Tuleja
Strategic Selling co-author
Mahan Khalsa
Let's Get Real or Let's Not Play (Helping Clients Succeed)
Randy Illig
Helping Clients Succeed co-author / FranklinCovey
Jack Napoli
MEDDIC originator (PTC)
Dick Dunkel
MEDDIC originator (PTC)
Andy Whyte
MEDDICC (book), modernized methodology
Darius Lahoutifard
MEDDIC Academy founder
John McMahon
The Qualified Sales Leader, MEDDPICC popularizer
John Kaplan
Force Management, Command of the Message
John Kaplan / Force Management team — Command of the Sale
playbook
Frank Visgatis
CustomerCentric Selling co-author
Michael Bosworth
Solution Selling, CustomerCentric Selling
Keith Eades
The New Solution Selling (Sales Performance International)
Jeff Thull
Mastering the Complex Sale, Prime Process
Sharon Drew Morgen
Buying Facilitation
David Sandler
Sandler Selling System
David Mattson
Sandler Rules, Sandler CEO
Bill Caskey
The 2X Quota podcast/coaching
Bryan Neale
Blind Zebra, Advanced Selling Podcast
Linda Richardson
Changing the Sales Conversation
Tony Hughes
Combo Prospecting, RSVPselling
Trish Bertuzzi
The Sales Development Playbook (SDR canon)
Aaron Ross
Predictable Revenue, cold-calling 2.0
Marylou Tyler
Predictable Revenue co-author, Predictable Prospecting
Jeremey Donovan
outbound data-driven sales frameworks
Mark Roberge
The Sales Acceleration Formula (HubSpot)
David Cancel
Drift conversational-sales doctrine
Dave Gerhardt
B2B sales-marketing alignment frameworks
Chris Voss
Never Split the Difference (negotiation-as-sales)
Jim Camp
Start with No, "Camp System" negotiation
Roger Dawson
Secrets of Power Negotiating
Stuart Diamond
Getting More
Deepak Malhotra
Negotiation Genius
William Ury
Getting to Yes / Getting Past No
Roger Fisher
Getting to Yes
Herb Cohen
You Can Negotiate Anything
Zig Ziglar
Secrets of Closing the Sale (classic canon)
Tom Hopkins
How to Master the Art of Selling
Brian Tracy
The Psychology of Selling
Jeffrey Gitomer
Little Red Book of Selling
Grant Cardone
10X / "Sell or Be Sold"
Jordan Belfort
Straight Line Persuasion
Frank Bettger
How I Raised Myself from Failure to Success in Selling
Earl Nightingale
strange-secret/sales-mindset canon
W. Clement Stone
Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude (sales era)
Og Mandino
The Greatest Salesman in the World
Oren Klaff
Pitch Anything, Flip the Script
Mike Schultz
Rain Selling, Insight Selling
John Doerr (RAIN Group)
Rain Selling co-author
Tiffani Bova
Growth IQ, sales-as-experience
Lori Richardson
Score More Sales (women in sales frameworks)
Jill Konrath
SNAP Selling, Agile Selling
Jill Rowley
social selling pioneer
Koka Sexton
social selling frameworks (LinkedIn era)
Tim Hughes
Social Selling: Techniques to Influence Buyers
Daniel Disney
The Million-Pound LinkedIn Message
Morgan Ingram
SDR coaching, JBarrows alum
John Barrows
Filling the Funnel, JB Sales training
Sarah Brazier
sales-skill content frameworks
Becc Holland
Flip the Script personalization
Kyle Coleman
Clari/Copy.ai, RevOps-narrated outbound
Nick Cegelski
30 Minutes to President's Club
Armand Farrokh
30MPC co-host, outbound playbooks
Mark Hunter
High-Profit Prospecting
Tibor Shanto
Proactive Prospecting
Lee Salz
Sales Differentiation
Steve W. Martin
Heavy Hitter Selling, sales-linguistics
Howard Stevens
HR Chally sales-competency research
Gerhard Gschwandtner
Selling Power, sales-leadership canon
Andy Paul
Sell Without Selling Out
Anthony Cole
sales-management coaching frameworks
Colleen Stanley
Emotional Intelligence for Sales Success
Shari Levitin
Heart and Sell
Cynthia Barnes
National Association of Women Sales Professionals frameworks
Lori Harmon
Inside Sales Pro
Bridget Gleason
sales-leadership podcasts/frameworks
Lars Nilsson
Account-Based Sales Development (ABSD)
Sangram Vajre
ABM is B2B, FlipMyFunnel
Jon Miller
Account-Based Marketing/Sales playbook (Marketo/Engagio/Demandbase)
Latane Conant
No Forms. No Spam. No Cold Calls. (ABM)
Chris Orlob
Gong/pclub.io, data-driven sales frameworks
Devin Reed
Gong/Clari content-led sales enablement frameworks
Bryan Naas
sales-enablement frameworks
Roderick Jefferson
Sales Enablement 3.0
Tamara Schenk
sales-enablement research (CSO Insights)
Mike Kunkle
sales-enablement performance frameworks
Bob Apollo
Inflexion-Point, complex-sale frameworks
Steve Richard
ExecVision/Vorsight, conversation-intelligence frameworks
Dale Carnegie
How to Win Friends and Influence People (foundational sales canon)
Larry Levine
Selling From the Heart; trust-based selling framework