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It is happening to the majority of small businesses around the globe that are looking to increase sales, and can be fixed simply by adding one simple activity to their business.

Sometimes for businesses, the problem is in the marketing or sales contact that they are doing, but more often than not, if the business is providing a product or service that is valuable, it is actually the follow up process that is seeing businesses lose up to 90% of their sales through a missing piece in their selling process.

So often a sale is looking promising, and then the prospect just disappears, never to be heard from again, and the business is left wondering “What did I do wrong?”

Most likely they did absolutely nothing wrong!  The reason the sale dropped into the nothingness and didn’t get completed is because no one followed it up to find out where the prospect was at.

Such a big key to sales in business is in the follow up of potential customers to find out how they are feeling, where they are at and to close the sale if it is right - unfortunately this is rarely done.

Most of the time your potential customers just get too busy, things pop up and before you know it, whatever they were coming to you for isn’t one of their top priorities anymore, and so the sale disappears.

Businesses need to ensure that they set up a complete sales process to increase sales, and that means following up any potential customers that they haven’t heard a definite “No, thanks” from.

This is not about pushing sales on people or hard selling, that is not necessary at all, it is simply about following up prospects with a friendly phone call or email to see where they are at and if they have any questions or concerns.

Businesses feel daunted by the thought of following up with people, and they even feel that it is being too pushy, but done in the right way prospects really love being followed up.  They really appreciate the time you take to follow them up and it makes them feel valued so they are more likely to purchase off you.

If you implement this in your business, you will see that you will not only stand out from your competitors as being proactive and helpful to your potential customer, but you will also increase sales and regain that up to 90% of sales that you are currently losing.