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Finalize More Year-end Business with Ease

Sales Pop!

However, one easy strategy relaxes everyone we meet during the selling process, including follow-up. My example is to ask, ‘Are you looking forward to the holidays, followed by, ‘Do you have special plans?’ Undoubtedly, the recipient will be surprised upfront but quickly follow with an honest relay of their expectations.

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The Ultimate Relationship-Building Email Template [96% Success Rate]

Hubspot

Bottom line: Business professionals enjoy sharing knowledge, particularly when someone is willing to be a sponge and soak it all up. Relationship-Building Email: What Not to Do. When you sit quietly, listen to the person's advice, and come back with smart follow-up questions, you also build a relationship.

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Why the Basics Still Beat Fancy: The Unsexy Skills That Close Deals

Sales Gravy

The Fancy Stuff Is Failing You We see it all the timesalespeople hiding behind automation tools, social selling gimmicks, and relationship-building fluff. Follow-up calls. Whatever the flavor, the phone remains your fastest path to building pipeline. Most reps send five emails and give up. Follow-up calls.

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14 Templates for Follow Up Emails After a Meeting, Conference, and More

Hubspot

Organizing meetings, making phone calls, sending emails, and attending conferences — a lot goes into relationship-building, no matter your industry. when you send your follow-up email. The following email templates will help you show your recipients the value you provide and develop meaningful relationships with them.

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How I Use Real-Time AI to Cut my Follow-up Time by 67% and Accelerate Deals

Sales Hacker

Inevitably, they forget some follow-ups and lose others to messy notes. What if we said you could use artificial intelligence (AI) to answer complex questions in real-time, cut follow-up time by two-thirds, and give yourself more time to focus on high-value activities like building relationships?

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How I Learned I Was a Sales Consulting Imposter

Understanding the Sales Force

He scored 17 on the Relationship Building Competency, meaning he is terrible at building and maintaining relationships. I told him that if he didn’t hear back from me by the end of business on the following day, then he didn’t make it to the next round (an interview with me).

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One Simple Way to Get Salespeople to Stop Flogging Products

Sales Pop!

Flogging products is disgusting pretty well sums up how I feel about salespeople who try to push the wares of their organization down my throat when I’m looking to get my needs satisfied. And the singular focus for sales in a strategic role is to build deep strong relationships with customers, not flog products at them.

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