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 | Feb 22, 2018 | Careers, Qualifying, Sales Leader, Sales Management, Sales Messaging, Sales Process, Today's Lessons, Tools
A year ago, I had a full process-messaging-behavior engagement with a client that culminated with a full two-day workshop. They went on to have a terrific year. We are now rolling out an Account Growth process and met this week to introduce the idea in a quick team...
by Adam Shapiro | Mar 6, 2015 | Closing, Sales Messaging, Sales Process
My son Max has been working hard putting together a skating/dance party for tomorrow evening to benefit an anti-bullying charity – Kidpower International. Yes, he’s a great kid, but he’s really doing this to fulfill his “mitzvah”...
by Adam Shapiro | Feb 27, 2012 | Champion, Closing, Prospecting, Sales Leader, Sales Management, Sales Messaging, Sales Process, Today's Lessons, Tools
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by Adam Shapiro | Oct 21, 2011 | Closing, Presenting, Qualifying, Sales Leader, Sales Management, Sales Messaging, Sales Process, Tools
Last week, I led a two hour seminar at a client’s annual meeting of partners and agents – think 40 B2B sales people and executives. The President had asked for 2 hours on closing skills to be presented to a group of sales professionals and executives at...