by Adam Shapiro | Apr 19, 2010 | Champion, Prospecting, Qualifying, Sales Messaging, Sales Process, Today's Lessons
Notes From Some Call Coaching Sessions From time to time, my clients ask me to sit with sales reps and review calls with them. Since I’ve had several such sessions already this year, I thought it would be helpful to summarize the notes the teams took and share...
by Adam Shapiro | Feb 28, 2010 | Champion, Networking, Qualifying, Sales Messaging, Sales Process, Today's Lessons
From Michael Lombardi at www.nationalfootballpost.com on Leaders asking questions: LEADERSHIP IMPROVEMENT IDEA… “New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as...
by Adam Shapiro | Feb 2, 2010 | Champion, Prospecting, Qualifying, Sales Messaging, Sales Process, Today's Lessons
While all the considerations around social media, marketing automation and email marketing are pertinent, effective and important, at the end of the day people buy from people and that buying cycle gets started with a “conversation.” via rareagent.wordpress.com...
by Adam Shapiro | Jan 14, 2010 | Champion, Qualifying, Sales Management, Sales Messaging, Sales Process, Tools
Or "What to do about those prospects who seem to be ignoring you."Maybe you saw this Seinfeld episode as a first run on NBC or a re-run on TBS - Hysterical, right? Sure. But. George's "thing" is also a great conversation starter...
by Adam Shapiro | Mar 17, 2009 | Champion, Qualifying, Sales Management, Sales Messaging, Sales Process
From the Sales Training Practices Group on LinkedIn: Matthew Kearns, a Sales Learning Consultant posted: My company sells outsourced workforce management technology and service. I’m currently a sales trainer for their Major Accounts division (selling to companies with...
by Adam Shapiro | Mar 6, 2008 | Qualifying, Sales Leader, Sales Management, Sales Process
Pressure, Pressure, Pressure. Those of us in our 40s may be thinking of the Billy Joel song. Those of us that carry quotas or rely on sales to put food on the table or pay a mortgage (or two), understand pressure. Or more like what it is to be in a pressure cooker....
