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Sales leads are the life blood for any person selling. For without those potential buyers, there would be no one to sell one’s solutions. And we all know without sales we remain pocket poor. With the recent emphasis on social selling , there appears to be a presumption that quantity is now more important than quality. This belief is put enough sales leads into your sales funnel and eventually gravity will pull at least a few of them through.
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