All four.
Demonstrating value is a mandate.
Building relationships - underrated strategy. many sales could be closed by building strong relationships with prospects, which couldn't have been otherwise.
Using testimonials - if we have, why not?
Offering discounts - Perhaps, the last shot. If nothing above and several follow-ups don't work.
I am not someone who is expert in all this but at least I have tried some tactics to increase the sale of my clients through cold leads.
I guess your question depends on the business type as well as the are of customers. As in my case, I am always targeting USA based audience, so all these 4 steps have same importance for us. We specifically audience in Moonachie, so we need to take more care of our clothing store based business. In general leads creation methods, we mostly focus of all these things to get more trust which in turn leads to a greater number of profit margins.
Don't think I'm qualified to give advice, but we're focused on educating our market before anything else. Before we can convert our cold leads, we have to educate them on AI
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