“JumpStart Your Business Right Now – Get More Clients, More Money and More Free Time for Yourself!” ,part 2

To effectively follow up with new prospects, new contacts or anyone in general you can do any or all of the following:

Mail a handwritten note with your business card “It was great to meet you, let’s get together for coffee to see how we might be able to work together. When are you available next week?”

Send a personal email “It was great to meet you, this is what I do now tell me what it is that you do so that we might be able to refer business to each other.”

Make a phone call to say “It was great to meet you, how could we help refer business to each other?”

Not only do you need to follow up with these people within 48 hours of meeting them, but you need to follow up again and again and again. Find new approaches each time, ask them questions, ask them for coffee, mail them a list of your services, drop off a promotional item and your brochure or email them an article you read that you thought they might be interested in.

Persistence is the key. If a lead is really warm to hot, you will want to follow up or contact them at least four times. If they turn you down at all or tell you no, keep trying different angles, kill them with kindness, refer a potential client to them, show them you give without expecting to receive. Most of the time, with persistence, you can win the sale or meeting.

Now, I can hear some of you thinking, “Ok, the follow up isn’t the problem, it’s the actual networking, talking to people I don’t know in a big crowd.”

Well, what I say to that is get over it!

Furthermore, if you want help jumpstarting your business, I would suggest signing up for one of my JumpStart Your Marketing coaching services or a 1 Hour Business Brainstorm Session! You can find out what those entail and how they will benefit you on the products page of my website at http://www.JumpStartYourMarketing.com!

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