A quick response dramatically improves your chances of reaching the key decision maker. Sitting on your leads will kill almost all of them.
Here’s good evidence from a Harvard Business Review article:
“Firms that tried to contact potential customers within an hour of receiving a query were nearly seven times as likely to qualify the lead (which we defined as having a meaningful conversation with a key decision maker) as those that tried to contact the customer even an hour later—and more than 60 times as likely as companies that waited 24 hours or longer.”
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