How Not to be a “Follow-Up Pest”
April 19th, 2012 by Bob Bly
One area of uncertainty among service providers is how often to follow up with prospects.
Not often enough and you may lose an opportunity to another vendor who is more visible.
Too often and you risk being an annoyance.
One technique that helps is to make sure you are NOT being a pest when you follow up.
Whether I am following up by phone or e-mail, the first thing I say is “I don’t want to be a pest, but … ” followed by a brief description of why I am calling.
This works amazingly well. Almost without fail, the prospect replies, “You’re not being a pest — I am glad you followed up!”
I don’t know what about “I don’t want to be a pest, but” works. I only know that it works like magic.
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April 19th, 2012 at 10:25 am
Great timing with this post! I’ve been wondering about followups lately myself and had the same dilemma you mentioned: Too soon and I’m a bother, too infrequent and I could lose an opportunity.
Thanks.
April 19th, 2012 at 11:59 am
I’ve got another one. When chasing clients for payment, and they’re not responding, start your message with ‘I’m starting to get concerned’. Works a treat!
April 20th, 2012 at 9:07 am
Matt: I like that! I assume it works?
April 21st, 2012 at 9:01 am
It’s worked every time so far.
April 27th, 2012 at 6:25 pm
I’m definitely going to try this approach. I also like the term “touching base”. I use that all the time when I’m following up, and it’s seemed to work so far…
May 7th, 2012 at 1:19 am
dear mr bly
i’m an unknown person who writes poetry,
though i don’t read much written by others
i’ve been told by a good friend that i must try to show you my pages.
could i please send you some poems to know what you think of them?
i didn’t know how to contact you, and a web search led me here
thanks
sunila
May 8th, 2012 at 9:43 am
Sunila: What would be my incentive for spending my limited and valuable time reading poems by a person I don’t know?
May 11th, 2012 at 6:32 pm
There is an American poet named Robert Bly. I’m thinking Sunila’s got her Bob Bly’s mixed up.
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