{"id":3475,"date":"2008-08-22T09:16:42","date_gmt":"2008-08-22T14:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/22\/how-to-spend-less-time-following-up-with-prospects\/"},"modified":"2008-08-22T09:16:42","modified_gmt":"2008-08-22T14:16:42","slug":"how-to-spend-less-time-following-up-with-prospects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/?p=3475","title":{"rendered":"How To Spend Less Time Following Up With Prospects"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style='italic;' class='uawbyline'>by Lindsey<\/div>\n<p>When working in the sales industry, following up is the one task that takes up the most time.  If you were to ask a group of salespeople what is one thing that they would like to change in order to make more money?  More than likely they would respond that they would like to spend less time following up with customers.<\/p>\n<p>Since sales jobs almost always involve some sort of commission pay, making more sales is critical to making more money. Wasting a lot of time on a prospect that doesn&#8217;t pan out means a huge loss of time that could have been better used getting new leads or following up a larger number of prospects. When sales volume directly impacts your pay, building sales volume is critical.<\/p>\n<p>How to spend less time following up with prospects should be a major part of your sales marketing strategy. This does not mean doing less work, or lower quality work. Efficient strategies enable you to get the same amount of results in a shorter amount of time.<\/p>\n<p>You can be sure that the most successful salespeople do not spend hours chatting to potential customers whose deals eventually go nowhere. A part of learning how to spend less time following up with prospects is learning how to guess what negotiations are likely to lead to a signed contract.<\/p>\n<p>Usually, with experience you can watch for body signals that can tell you how to judge what the customer is thinking.  Once you learn how to read the client a little better, you can apply this to your sales strategy.  Being able to tell what the client is thinking, will help you spend you energy elsewhere if you are able to tell where the conversation is going.<\/p>\n<p>If you have used lead generation software, you know that it can be a useful tool in a sales strategy. However, what it does not do is think for you. Smart and educated decisions are key to spending your time economically, and to do this you need experience and training.<\/p>\n<p>You need to research all of the successful and very <a href=\"http:\/\/multimillionaireblog.info\" class=\"kblinker\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"More about wealthy &raquo;\">wealthy<\/a> people who are in the sales industry.  After reading about their sales success, you will see that their goal is volume and efficiency.  This means that if you focus on volumes, then you also need to consider that without efficiency, volume will go nowhere.<\/p>\n<p>The benefits are endless once you learn how to spend less time following up with potential clients.  You will probably discover hidden sales skills that you never knew you had.  By using well exercised marketing strategies that include spending less time on the sale, you will be able to make more sales in a shorter time period.<\/p>\n<div class='uawresource'>\n<div style='italic;' class='uawabout'>About the Author:<\/div>\n<div class='uawlinks'>To read more great information on this topic visit <a href=\"http:\/\/viral-prospector.blogspot.com\/\">viral prospector<\/a> or, <a href=\"http:\/\/hubpages.com\/hub\/Free-Site-Traffic\/\">free site traffic<\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When working in the sales industry, following up is the one task that takes up the most time.  If you were to ask a group of salespeople what is one thing that they would like to change in order to make more money?  More than likely they would respond that they would like to spend less time following up with customers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[87],"class_list":["post-3475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marketing","tag-marketing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}