The account has never had a problem. It has never had a second contact either.
The best-run client relationships often generate the fewest conversations, which is exactly how a decade of goodwill ends up resting…
“Proposal sent” is not a stage
Most pipelines advance on something the seller did. That makes the forecast a record of effort, and the win rate something close to a coincidence.
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