by Adam Shapiro | Sep 13, 2019 | Prospecting, Sales Management, Sales Messaging, Today's Lessons
Prospecting is hard. Sometimes responding to a prospect’s requests is difficult, too. A client asked me this week how she should respond to this reply to a prospecting email: This response was the first from the prospect after an initial email sent cold from the...
by Adam Shapiro | May 23, 2019 | Careers, Marketing, Today's Lessons, Uncategorized
You see me and SalesReformSchool™ in print here, some of you may have heard me speak live and in-person, and I’ll have coffee one-on-one with virtually anyone. I’ve done both private and public webinars, but until last week I had never been interviewed...
by Adam Shapiro | Apr 24, 2019 | Uncategorized
This week a CEO client of mine sent the above image to me with a question: “What should A**’s “sales cadence” calendar look like? Here’s what we have so far . .” I can be scatterbrained, so forgive me that the first thing that came to mind was that I received...
by Adam Shapiro | Oct 2, 2018 | Presenting, Prospecting, Sales Messaging, Today's Lessons
For my birthday, Mrs. SalesReformSchool suggested I take a couple days off and tag along with her at a retail software conference in Scottsdale, Arizona. Hmmm, a few days in the desert: I could work some, hike some, enjoy the scenery, get some reading in at the pool...
by Adam Shapiro | Mar 15, 2017 | Careers, Presenting, Sales Leader, Sales Management, Tools
Constant improvement is one of my bedrock principles for starting SalesReformSchool 12+ years ago. Recently, however, I received written feedback from a post accusing me of not modeling Active Listening in my public discourse like I teach my clients. It knocked me...