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FU Is For Follow Up

The Pipeline

If you follow this blog, you may have seen that several times I have suggested that those people who are not cut out for a career in sales, should seriously consider transitioning to a career in hospitality. Here we are more than month later, no proposal – no follow up. By Tibor Shanto - tibor.shanto@sellbetter.ca .

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Follow Up Tips

Selling Energy

We sow the seeds of our own destruction by not following up with customers. My philosophy is when you send a proposal, you've got to follow up from the beginning. I’ll follow up with you in a couple of days.”. I also recommend a multi-modal approach.

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Timely Follow-Up

Selling Energy

Too many salespeople fail to appreciate the importance of timely follow-up. It’s often said that it takes seven touches to make the sale, and it’s tough to execute seven touches without an intense appreciation of follow-up. They don’t realize it’s what truly gets the job done.

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The Sale Happens In The Follow-Up

Women Sales Pros

You try a few more times, but out of fear you would become annoying you give up. You need to be able to do more than choose the right prospect and ask the right questions, you need to master the art of follow-up. The sale happens in the follow-up, it almost always happens in the follow-up.

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Going the Extra Mile on Follow-Up

Selling Energy

I was recently asked about my favorite ways to follow-up with customers. Considering how many touches it takes to make a sale, it’s both a delicate and rigorous process. Statistics suggest it takes eight touches on average to get an initial meeting and an additional ten touches on average to close the deal.

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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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How to Embrace the Process of Follow Up Calls (video)

Pipeliner

If people intentionally opt-in for consultations with us, why are we still reluctant to make follow-up calls? In this Expert Insight Interview, Molly McGrath discusses the concept of follow up. This interview discusses: Embracing follow-up calls. Make Follow Up Calls. The power of the pause.