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In a noisy world of scripts, funnels, and persuasion tactics, one sales coach invites you to slow down, tune in, and sell with clarity.
Marla M. Koupal, The Sales Conversation Architect™, is a 50-year sales veteran who curates Selling Common Sense and teaches the 4 C’s of Sales Success—Competence, Confidence, Consistency, and yes, Common Sense. She helps purpose-driven entrepreneurs drop the gimmicks and revive the lost art of conversation…where calm presence, smart questions, and emotional timing lead the way.
This isn’t sales theater. It’s sales fluency.
On The Sales Pulse, you’ll learn how to match a buyer’s pace, listen between the lines, and guide them toward decisions with confidence—not coercion. Because when you sell with fluency, there’s no need to pitch or pressure.
This is where clarity replaces persuasion and trust becomes the currency of every deal.
If you’re ready to sell in a way that finally feels right—for you and for the buyer—join Marla each week for fresh insights, bold truths, and practical tools that deliver results without compromise.
Bold sales, one clear, curious conversation at a time.
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Why Did They Say No, When They Agreed?
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Oct 13, 2026 |
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Your Buyer Was Thinking...You Started Talking
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Oct 06, 2026 |
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Why You’re Missing What Your Buyer Is Telling You
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Sep 29, 2026 |
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5 Sales Mistakes That Lose Sales...Stop Filling In The Blanks
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Sep 22, 2026 |
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How a Closed Receiving Space™️ Loses Sales
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Sep 15, 2026 |
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How to Trust Your Sales Intuition
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Sep 08, 2026 |
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The Sales Habit You Can't Fix Until You Catch It
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Sep 01, 2026 |
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You Heard the Words. Did You Hear the Buyer?
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Aug 25, 2026 |
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Are You Selling Through a Dirty Filter?
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Aug 18, 2026 |
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Why Your Best Sales Answer May Lose the Sale
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Aug 11, 2026 |
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Why Buyers Don't Need More Information, But Do Need Room To Decide.
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Jul 28, 2026 |
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Why Qualified Buyers Don't Say Yes: The Sales Problem Everyone Diagnoses Incorrectly
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Jul 14, 2026 |
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The Seller Owns the Conversation. The Buyer Owns the Decision.
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Jul 14, 2026 |
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Why Buyer's Measure Emotional Risk Before They Spend
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Jun 30, 2026 |
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How Sellers Miss the 1% That Costs Them Sales
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Jun 23, 2026 |
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AI & Sales Conversations. The New Buying Space
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Jun 09, 2026 |
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How The Sale You Stop Chasing...Starts Chasing You
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Jun 02, 2026 |
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Why the Words Before the Words Matter in Sales Conversations
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May 19, 2026 |
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How Social Media Empathy Endangers Sales Conversations
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May 12, 2026 |
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Why "I'm Not Good At Sales" Isn't About Sales at All
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May 05, 2026 |
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How Sales Go Sideways (It's Usually You)
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Apr 28, 2026 |
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How Your Sales Conversations Are Shaping You
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Apr 21, 2026 |
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How to Make Magic in Sales
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Apr 14, 2026 |
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The Myth about Leads That Keeps Sales Stuck
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Apr 07, 2026 |
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Why Waiting to Feel Ready Quietly Loses You The Sale
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Mar 31, 2026 |
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What do your sales results really tell you?
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Mar 24, 2026 |
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3 Sales Tips: A Reset for Small Biz Teams
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Mar 18, 2026 |
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Why Word Salad Kills Sales Conversations
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Feb 25, 2026 |
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Why “Get It Done” Selling Fails
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Feb 17, 2026 |
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How to Sell While In Neutral; The Discipline That Keeps Sales Conversations Alive
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Jan 27, 2026 |
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Are you Terrible at Sales? Good! Now What?
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Jan 27, 2026 |
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How Sales Chaos Starts at the Leadership level
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Jan 13, 2026 |
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How CALM Becomes the Operating System for Sales Teams
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Jan 09, 2026 |
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How "Calm" Sets the Standard for Sales Leaders
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Jan 06, 2026 |
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The Lie Sales People Tell Themselves!
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Dec 23, 2025 |
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Selling Urgency Has a Place...December Isn't It.
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Dec 16, 2025 |
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FOMO Season is not a Sales Strategy
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Dec 09, 2025 |
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Gratitude is a Sales Strategy...Use It
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Nov 25, 2025 |
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Defensive Selling Part 2: The Hidden Cost of Trying Too Hard
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Nov 18, 2025 |
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The Anatomy of a Defensive Seller
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Nov 11, 2025 |
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Do You Really Need a Sales Coach or Just a Better Mirror?
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Oct 28, 2025 |
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How to Choose the Right Sales Coach
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Oct 28, 2025 |
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Why Know Like & Trust Is Failing Your Sales and What to Do Instead
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Oct 14, 2025 |
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The 5 Elephants in the Room That Kill The Sale
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Oct 07, 2025 |
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Sales Skills Beat Confidence
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Sep 30, 2025 |
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How To Stop Taking Rejection Personally In Sales
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Sep 23, 2025 |
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The 3 C’s of Sales Success Plus Common Sense
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Sep 16, 2025 |
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7 Rules for Architecting Sales Conversations
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Sep 09, 2025 |
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3 Ways Emotional Labor Changes Sales Conversations
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Sep 01, 2025 |
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5 Elements that turn a Pitch Into A Sales Conversation
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Aug 26, 2025 |
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You Lost the Sale Before You Opened Your Mouth
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Aug 19, 2025 |
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The Hiking Shortcut...Unique Sales Conversation
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Aug 11, 2025 |
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The Emotion You’re Avoiding Might Be the Sale You’re Losing
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Aug 05, 2025 |
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Your Sales Pitch Kills the Spark
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Jul 29, 2025 |
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Start with the Feeling...Or Lose the Sale
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Jul 22, 2025 |
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Stop Underestimating Your Buyer
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Jul 15, 2025 |
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You Lost The Sale Because You Were Still Marketing
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Jul 08, 2025 |
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Shut Up to Sell Smarter
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Jul 01, 2025 |
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Only One Bet Wins In Sales
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Jun 24, 2025 |
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Respect: The Skill That Sells
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Jun 17, 2025 |
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Oh! the Sales You’ll Miss If You Don’t Ask
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Jun 17, 2025 |
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Out of Sync? Why Timing Wrecks More Sales Than You Think
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Jun 17, 2025 |