SALES FOLLOW UP STRATEGIES
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Greeting
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Add value
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Suggested new opportunities
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Introduced another service offered by company
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Ask status of first encounter.
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Restate the key issues that were discussed in the first consultation or telephone call.
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Remind the client of your product quality.
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Ask for a timetable
Sample Sales Follow Up Strategies
SAMPLE FOLLOW UP WITH A CLIENT AFTER WAITING FOR 10 DAYS. CLIENT SAID SHE IS MEETING WITH HER TEAM AND IT’S 10 DAYS SO I FOLLOWED UP.
(EMAIL OR WHATSAPP IS APPROPRIATE).
FOLLOW UP AFTER TALKING TO A POTENTIAL CLIENT
Hello Mrs. M,
How are you doing? I did some marketing research on the snail industry in Europe that confirms the snail business is bouncing back in Europe after a bumpy year in 2020 due to the pandemic. The market trend is still strong in France, UK and other European countries; however, Morocco is now leading the chart with 10.48M. This is double of the export value of the second place, Lithuania with 5.78M. However, the growth of the third place, Ukraine is phenomenal. Another country to pay attention to is Italy. Italy doesn’t produce as much snails as the other countries above it in the list. But in 2020, they increased that volume by more than 7 times! We need to pay close attention to these developments if we want to be competitive in the industry. Nigeria has one of the highest quality snails in the world but did not make the list, which opens the opportunity for your business to fill in the gap. My other company T&T CALGroup Business Solutions is a business solutions company specialized in trends and where the analysis was made. We offer our clients a range of business services in our packages to help them succeed. What is the status of the discussion with your team, as you mentioned in your last message to me on September 6, 2021? I hope your team is making progress. The 3 major topics in our last discuss was (1) establishing and exploring the diaspora markets, (2) establishing the brand in Nigeria and abroad, and (3) making the site informative. I also mentioned that we are not putting up a photo front website but instead we are moving your entire company and its operations online. We are automating operations and developing a marketing platform with analytics and customer tracking tools. Let me know when you plan to start work on the website and marketing project.
Sincerely,
Dr. Thaddaeus Thompson (Closing greeting only necessary when you are sending an email)
Note: Observe the content pattern:
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Greeting
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Value added: the research I did.
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Suggested opportunities for the client (Not for me)
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Introduced another service offered by my company, which I intentionally did not mention in the first encounter. Finish the website discussion before you introduce another service. They can be done together but finish one and get an agreed upon conclusion from the client before you introduce the next service to avoid confusing them.
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Now, I am asking the status of our first encounter. This way the client doesn’t think it’s all about my interest.
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Restate the key issues that were discussed in the first consultation or telephone call.
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Remind the client: “I also mentioned that we are not putting up a photo front website but instead we are moving your entire company and its operations online.”
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Ask for a timetable: “Let me know when you plan to start …………”
Sample 2 Sales Pitch
(FOLLOWING UP AFTER SENDING AN EMAIL)
22/05/2021
Dear Mr./Mrs. SAMPLE,
I am (Mr./Mrs./Ms. SAMPLE), marketer at T&T Web Designing & Marketing Services. We are a website designing and online marketing firm with headquarters in the Silicon Valley, CA and branches in France, Switzerland and now fully established in Nigeria to help Nigerian businesses market their products and services to full capacity.
I am following up on an email I sent to you (or Mr./Mrs./Ms. Sample) last Tuesday, May 28, 2021 mentioning that I reviewed the marketing potentials of selected business websites, which yours happens to be one of them and highly recommend that you consider making some adjustments in your online marketing strategy.
I took some time to look into what a friend of mine in your industry is doing, and I came up with a few solutions, I think I could help you out with. I think a more robust and aggressive customer oriented marketing campaign will attract more customers to your website and recover 80% of potential customers who are currently disconnected from your current website. I would like to talk more about them and even introduce to you some of them.
Thanks for opening up about some of the challenges that you are facing. I am definitely going to reach out to you so we can discuss more once I get the chance.
Let me know if you are interested and we can get to the phone sometime this week around noon.
JOE SAMPLE
Websites & Marketing Associate
T&T Web designing & Marketing Services
Tel: +1-510-240-2290