Here’s OUR monthly top picks for you (and your field) for reading, listening to and utilizing in order to stay engaged, informed and one step ahead.

Blog / The 360 Blog for C-Suite
Salesforce

As the world’s leading customer relationship management (CRM) software, Salesforce helps businesses track customer interactions and sales data. So it’s no surprise that the brand is also a thought leader in the business world, publishing key insights on their popular site, The 360 Blog. Posts aimed at the C-Suite cover timely subjects like leading through change, the future of work and incorporating data into your business strategy to drive performance. You can also sign up for Salesforce’s free newsletter to have targeted content sent straight to your inbox.

Book / Collaboration Is the New Competition
by Priscilla McKinney

Since complex business issues can be solved faster and more efficiently as a team, collaboration is displacing competition as an avenue to success. In her groundbreaking book, Collaboration Is the New Competition, author Priscilla McKinney explains how to create the ideal environment for strategic collaboration; establish rules of engagement; decrease frustration; and amplify wins.

AI Tool / Qloo

When launching your brand into new countries, it can be challenging to understand your new market. Qloo is a “privacy-first cultural AI” that decodes global consumer taste—which provides businesses with predictions to help customize products and marketing assets to each culture’s wants and needs. The platform has a deep understanding of over 575 million cultural trends and preferences, including brands, media, travel and more. Detailed compound queries on demographics, psychographics and buying patterns to improve international expansion and customer experiences.

BOOK / The Greatness Mindset: Unlock the Power of Your Mind and Live Your Best Life Today
by Lewis Howes

Mindset is everything—but that’s easy to forget as a new entrepreneur struggling with impostor syndrome. Using science-based strategies, personal stories and a step-by-step approach, best-selling author Lewis Howes helps readers make a mental paradigm shift in his book, The Greatness Mindset. Through defining a mission to enhance purpose; identifying root causes of fear; ending self-sabotaging thoughts; and manifesting greatness, Howes can help your field design the life of their dreams.

Website / Psychology Junkie
Susan Storm

While personality tests like Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) or Enneagram are helpful in self-discovery, applying the results of these personality tests in the office can give your organization an edge. The Psychology Junkie website provides free tests to help you discover your results—but more importantly—the site hosts a treasure trove of meaningful content to help you understand the meaning and application of your results. The Psychology Junkie offers fascinating articles to help you hire, train, lead, communicate with and understand your team in new and effective ways.

Podcast / Selling Made Simple and Salesman Podcast
Salesman.com

Looking for personal development on the go? Most episodes of Selling Made Simple have an average runtime of 4-15 minutes, making it the perfect learning tool for even the busiest entrepreneur. Host Will Baron teaches how to find buyers and win business using modern, effective, ethical strategies. Popular episodes discuss crafting the perfect elevator pitch; reducing anxiety; understanding your prospects; and closing the sale.

From the January/February 2024 issue of Direct Selling News magazine.

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Here’s OUR monthly top picks for you (and your field) for reading, listening to and utilizing in order to stay engaged, informed and one step ahead.

AI Tool / DeepL
DeepL is a machine translation service that uses advanced AI to translate text from one language to another. Initially launched in 2017, DeepL has developed neural networks that allow their technology to translate 31 languages even more accurately than Google Translate! The text translation function is free but limited. Membership starts at under $10 per month for professional usage features, such as unlimited text translations, data security, file translations and team administration—a convenient option for translating assets in house.

APP / FlightView
Whether traveling for business or pleasure, tracking your latest flight information across various airlines and destinations can be a huge frustration. As the leading provider of digital flight information, the FlightView app tracks 96 percent of commercial flights from its extensive flight status database of over 980 airlines. Using only your travel date, airline and flight number, FlightView provides all pertinent information about your roundtrip, including departure and arrival times, terminals, gates, flight status, weather, flight duration and even aircraft.

COURSE / Ecsell Institute

Even the best leadership team needs ongoing training to stay at the top of their game. Enter the Ecsell Institute: a leadership training and professional growth program that utilizes a unique approach called “The Coaching Effect.” By turning your leaders into coaches, Ecsell’s program encourages development of the entire team. The organization leverages more than a decade of research to pinpoint behaviors that create top leaders; track and measure leadership ability; and offer personalized tools for improvement.

BOOK / The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery
By Brianna Wiest

Unfortunately, self-sabotage happens to the best of us. According to international bestselling author Brianna Wiest, coexisting but conflicting needs generate self-sabotaging behaviors—resulting in resistance to change. Wiest uses the classic mountain metaphor for facing life’s challenges, but first we have to process trauma, build resilience and determine how we show up for the climb. Wiest illustrates practical ways we can get out of our own way and master ourselves—an appropriate strategy for achieving goals in the New Year.

AUDIO BOOK / Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life
By Arnold Schwarzenegger

What does it take to become the world’s greatest bodybuilder? The world’s highest-paid movie star? The leader of the world’s sixth-largest economy? Arnold Schwarzenegger knows. Despite being raised in poverty in rural Austria, Schwarzenegger reached incredible heights by following seven simple rules. Rooted in his father’s life philosophy, the Terminator himself narrates this insightful audio book that shares how to “Be Useful” through clear vision, big thinking, hard work, direct communication, resilient problem-solving, open-minded curiosity and a commitment to giving back.

YOUTUBE CHANNEL / Grow Your Business with Instagram
By Elise Darma

Help your field grow their businesses by learning from Elise Darma, a social media educator who specializes in Instagram marketing. Darma releases a video on her YouTube channel every Tuesday with timely insights on topics like content, algorithm updates, leveraging AI and increasing reach. With an audience of over 370,000 across 79 countries, Darma can easily help your field become strategic Instagram marketers.

From the December 2023 issue of Direct Selling News magazine.

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