Skip to content

𝗝𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗮𝘀𝗸.

Clive Griffiths
Clive Griffiths
1 min read

Just call them and ask.

That was my advice to a consultant on a coaching. He'd been ghosted after submitting a proposal. Prior to this the prospect had put pressure on him to respond quickly.

This is something I hear ... a lot.

-----


"I don't have his number" he replied.

"So, let m,e get this right," I said. "You've had multiple discovery calls, worked on this proposal for several days, invested time ... and you have envoi way to follow up ... apart from email. And they're not responding to that?"

"Yes."

🤦🏻

"Okay, here's what we are going to do now ..." I said.

-----

This is an example of how - by not contracting for sales basics - you can make life harder.

Good starting points:

⇢ Get their mobile number (no number, no proposal)
⇢ Agree response times for communication (both ways).
⇢ Understand the decision making criteria, timeframe and process.

===

PS. Want to know what we did?
Send me a DM

LinkedIn PostsLI-2024

Related Posts

Members Public

Think Different

I love it when there's a seemingly Unreasonable Agenda. The Apple Think Different campaign epitomised this. Just look at the change makers: Albert Einstein: Questioned absolute space-time. Bob Dylan: Reimagined song meanings poetically. Martin Luther King Jr.: Envisioned equality beyond segregation. Richard Branson: Ignored business conventions fearlessly. John

Members Public

Here to share

Posting regularly on LinkedIn one starts to appreciate the different social engagement circles. You've got your lurkers. They follow but never engage. You've got your collectors. They connect to boost their numbers, but aren't truly interested. You've got your barnacles (HT Dean

Members Public

Molly vs the Machines

Monetising misery. A machine for manipulating behaviour. Global architecture of surveillance. Computational governance. -//- Yesterday I watched Molly vs the Machines on Channel 4 catch up. I feel it's a must watch for anyone with children. The phrases above are four of many I wrote down, used