An Immutable Law of Sales: one of a series
A "slow" maybe is extraordinarily expensive. The great sales people over time have realized they must learn to be discerning enough to know when they haven't yet successfully matched their services/products with the customers’ requirements. Too often the customer is unable to “just say “no”” so we continue to call on them hoping for a miraculous conversion. And they do occur! But the cost of the sale is nearly always too expensive, not even counting the opportunity lost cost since other potential sales went uncontested to the competition as there was no time available to develop them.
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