The enquiry arrived at 9.40 on Tuesday. Someone called back on Thursday.

Weak inbound conversion is usually diagnosed as a demand problem or a sales-skill problem. Far more often it is a queue nobody owns.

By Steve 5 min read
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A business spends months and real money building demand: search, referral partners, a rebuilt website, a trade stand. The enquiries arrive. Then they sit. Not for weeks, usually: a day here, an afternoon there, a Friday afternoon form fill answered on Monday morning. Nobody experiences this as a failure, because nobody sees the deal they never got a chance at. The conversion rate looks disappointing, and the conversation that follows is about lead quality or sales capability. It is worth checking the timestamps first. The gap between when an enquiry…

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