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Podcast: Double Your Freelancing Podcast
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Episode 6: Establishing A Sales Pipeline
Category: Business
Duration: 00:41:25
Publish Date: 2012-11-08 20:09:00
Description:

Hosted by  Brennan Dunn and  Eric Davis.

Show Notes

  • 00:50  - Sales Pipeline
  • Moving people through a series of steps to get them to be a paying customer
  • Acquisition to qualification to scoping to clients
  • 04:11  - Content marketing to project delivery
  • 08:02  - Tracking leads
  • Highrise
  • Fat Free CRM
  • PipelineDeals
  • Pipedrive
  • Whiteboard
  • Spreadsheet
  • 12:29  - Networking
  • Referrals
  • Are they a good fit?
  • Do timelines overlap?
  • 14:36  - Qualification
  • Why should this project exist?
  • Do you have budget?
  • When do you want to start? Are there deadlines?
  • Are they the owner of the project?
  • Is this a new type of project for your company?
  • How did you hear about me?
  • Are they talking to any other firms?
  • 22:27  - Referring to elsewhere
  • End on a good note and don’t burn bridges
  • Provide value
  • Keep in touch and follow up when they are a good fit
  • 26:02  - Scoping Meeting/New Client Consultation System
  • 28:48  - Communication
  • FollowUp.cc
  • Patience
  • 30:56  - Follow up after project completion

Resources

Brennan  -  Obie’s Document Templates,  IndieConf 2012
Eric  -  Freelancing Weekly,  PipelineDeals

Action Step

Reflect on your own business and put together a checklist of things that you ask a new client to qualify them and to bump up your professional factor by having a systematic icebreaker.

Next Week

Obie Fernandez

Transcript

We’re hoping to get a transcript later.

 
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