Last week I came across a recent Harvard Business Review, which clearly shows the importance of timely responses when it comes to following up with online leads, and this is what is said:
“Companies that try to contact potential customers within an hour of receiving queries are nearly 7 times as likely to have meaningful conversations with key decision makers as firms that try to contact prospects even an hour later. Yet only 37% of companies respond to queries within an hour.” *
2 things to note:
1) If you get back to your leads within an hour, there is a significantly higher chance of converting them and making a sale, and 2) Less than half of companies do this!
Put quite simply – you must get on the phone straight away and talk to your leads. That first hour after their enquiry can shape your entire journey with them.
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*The data originally came from a study of 2,241 U.S. firms led by a researcher at South Korea’s Sungkyunkwan University.
