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Why Your Salespeople Won’t Follow Up With Prospects

Sales and Marketing Management

Why don’t salespeople follow-up? It could be some of each, of course, but it is rarely balanced. Can’t vs. Won’t in Follow-Up . My direct observation is that poor follow-up is almost always a case of won’t more than of can’t. I make this case for one simple reason: follow-up just ain’t that hard. .

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Sales prospecting made easier

Sales 2.0

This post describes a framework that I have found over the last two decades can really change the math on prospecting. Before you can go setting up meetings, you need to figure out who you need to meet. Before you can go setting up meetings, you need to figure out who you need to meet. The trick of course is finding them.

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How often should you really follow-up with a prospect [data backed]

Close.io

And that person won’t stop blowing up your inbox. But really, how important is it to follow-up ? A study by Harvard Business Review found that 56% of prospects complain about poor follow-ups. And 48% of those prospects will tell at least 10 people about their poor follow-up experience.

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Scheduling a Sales Follow-Up

Selling Energy

At the conclusion of your first meeting (online or in-person) with a prospect, do you schedule a follow-up interaction… or do you wait and do it later? If you wait, you give your prospect time to second-guess the urgency of your offering, you risk playing phone tag, and you may wind up losing the sale.

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Scheduling a Sales Follow-Up

Selling Energy

At the conclusion of your first meeting (online or in-person) with a prospect, do you schedule a follow-up interaction… or do you wait and do it later? If you wait, you give your prospect time to second-guess the urgency of your offering, you risk playing phone tag, and you may wind up losing the sale.

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7 Tips for writing the perfect follow-up sales email (according to science)

Gong.io

Subscribe here and follow me to read upcoming research. Three days ago, I sent a flawless cold prospecting email. . Or maybe just a quick “bubbling this up” email. ( That’s why the Gong data team analyzed 304,174 emails to learn which prospecting follow-up email leads to more booked meetings. .

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7 [Critical] Sales Follow Up Email Ideas You Must Use

Marc Wayshak

Do you send a lot of emails to prospects? Then, when you reply with your sales follow-up email, does the prospect disappear ? Most follow-up emails are the weak link in the process. Having a strong sales follow-up email will make a huge difference in ultimately setting appointments.