I had a prospect ask for a full proposal before we even finished discovery. Part of me wanted to hustle and send it, and part of me knew that’s usually how you get ghosted. It’s hard to push back without sounding difficult. Do you hold the line on process or just go with the flow and hope for the best?

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I’m finding this is more common, people have short attention spans and they don’t want a tailored approach anymore. “Show me the solution or goodbye” seems to be the name of the game

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Thanks for the insight.

It depends on the client. There are some I can tell are serious, and I usually go with the flow for them. But with others, I hold the line. I’ve been ghosted far too many times and know how that usually goes.

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So what do you do when you sense the prospect is flakier?

In todays world with AI research assistant tools, depth in publication sites and newsletters, etc most buyers have gathered enough information to answer the basic/generic questions. If you don’t entice them with something to want to wait for or meet more about, then they’ll complete their information gathering and move on to the next thing. The job is only getting harder with all of the information available to buyers and buying groups.

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