How do you feel about never listening back from potential clients who reach out with quoting and other requests?
It feels so frustrating how awful the market is and how people don’t care about each other anymore.
To maintain a good communication is a expression of appreciation for our time. Do not ask for quotes or availability and just disappear. This is not nice!
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- Great question @flavia felipe, I've just sent you a DM!
- @Gavin Kemp What a spot-on answer! I agree with all that was said before.@flavia felipe It is a relationship you are building and if the match is not there, it's ok. It may not have been the right project, client, or vibe to work with. I think it's important to distance oneself from your work and protect yourself in this early stage because it's part of the process.One of the oldest careers says it all: The salesman selling at each door will have a number of shut doors and even more doors open but no sale. So you have to get back up and learn from that short interaction to be more engaging next time especially if it's a project you are super excited about. Clients do feel that as well, and just let it flow.Once you've done your best to present your portfolio, mindset, interest, and concern for the project... and if nothing comes out of it, simply move forward and focus on your next opportunity. With the experience and wisdom you gain, you cherish your energy because it has value (your next client needs that cleared energy as well).Thank you for speaking about it, in our field, we have seen and witnessed a body of behaviours each one of them teaches us what we want to experience more and what we do not want to experience anymore.Sending mindful vibes.
- Not bothered by it, frankly.Clients don't need to let me know they're not moving forward with me unless I actively ask them - perhaps by following up after giving a quote. But if I don't, and I don't hear from them, that's cool. Even if I do reach back out and get nothing in response, that's okay, too.Yeah, the industry is touch, especially for freelancers. But getting upset because clients aren't letting you know they don't dig your quote is a quick way to burnout. And if it does bother you that much just... email them. Follow-up. Ask whether they've seen your quote, etc.
- I don’t understand your point of view, being a supplier to clients and prospective clients is not a passive sport.All a prospect needs to do is ask once (and only once) – then it’s our responsibility (and nobody else’s) to win the sale. What do you need to do to win this job and (win or not) be able can chase them for something else in 3 months. There are so many things to do and questions to be answered once you have replied to an enquiry; you need to own it big time and take the initiative at every opportunity.Expecting to get replies to feel appreciated or to generate some other validation is approaching sales in completely the wrong way. This lacks a certain commercial understanding of the game.If I ask 2 people for a price and one person send me an e-mail, and the other sends me a mail, follows it up with a call 2 days later to make sure their mail has been received, then checks their quote is what I want and takes an interest in me as a prospect I know who I will want to buy from.You need to ask yourself do you play the man or woman or play the ball! you rarely need to play the ball, people buy from people.
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