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George Brontén
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George Brontén

George is the founder & CEO of Membrain, the world's 1st Sales Effectiveness Platform that makes it easy to execute your sales strategy. A life-long entrepreneur with 20 years of experience in the software space and a passion for sales and marketing. With the life motto "Don't settle for mainstream", he is always looking for new ways to achieve improved business results using innovative software, skills and processes.

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Do women make better salespeople than men?

When I meet sales leaders for the first time, one of the questions I usually ask is, “Who is your top salesperson?” Very often, the answer is the name of a woman.

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Here are 5 Simple Steps to Make Sales Training Stick

U.S. companies spent $90.6 billion on training in 2017*. Of that, about $20 billion was spent on sales-specific training, representing an average expenditure of about $5000 per representative per year*.

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How to transform sales effectiveness with empathy

There are a lot of skills and techniques that are important to sales effectiveness, but few are as overlooked and undervalued as empathy. We don’t talk about it when we’re building sales process, we rarely discuss it in sales meetings, and it’s not usually mentioned in sales training.

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Is the current SDR model destroying your effectiveness?

A lot of companies think that in order to be effective in sales, they need a large team of young, inexpensive "Sales Development Reps" (SDRs) lining up emails, inmails and sales calls and talking customers into exploring their products & services. This model of sales started in Silicon Valley, and has been successful in expanding the reach of many SaaS and other technology companies.

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What is a sales strategy and how do you create one?

The right sales strategy is critical to high sales performance. When a great sales strategy is aligned with appropriate sales process, methods, training, coaching, and technologies, sales teams can reliably knock the numbers out of the ballpark.

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What is sales effectiveness and how do you measure it?

What is sales effectiveness? If you ask a room of 100 sales professionals, you’ll likely get 100 different answers. Some will talk about performance against goals, while others may refer to revenue or profit. Many say effectiveness has to do with making better use of one’s time.

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How to visualize value to dramatically improve sales outcomes

Few factors impact the success of a sale more than how you communicate the value that your product or service will bring to the customer. Yet many salespeople fail at having meaningful value conversations with their prospects.

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Why Membrain is the sexiest software in the sales industry, according to this expert

“It’s the sexiest software to manage sales I’ve ever seen, and makes my job of managing and scaling the business easier.”

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New resources to help you up your coaching game

Sales coaching can be a critical multiplier for sales performance. Some would argue that it’s the main driver to increase sales effectiveness. Yet, too few seem to be doing it well.
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