🏛️ PRODUCT REPS: Use these email templates to make your architect follow-up easier


The Monday Morning Building Product Advisor
Issue #101

This past week’s been a rough one…

Between client work and dealing with a family loss, my mind hasn’t been on writing too much this week. But with a recent influx of new readers, I don’t want to leave you hanging.

And to make sure I didn’t, I dug into the archives to find some of the valuable issues I’ve sent in the past…

One’s only seen by my earliest subscribers.

Now, one of the top questions I get from product reps is how to follow up with their ideal architect clients (without being an annoying pest).

So, here is a two-part email series that shares one of the frameworks I’ve successfully used for years…

I hope you find them as valuable as I have.

[I’ve heard from several of those early subscribers who’ve been using these for the past two years that they’ve been working well for them, too.]


That's it for this week!

Cheers to building more than just buildings, and see you next week,

Neil Sutton
Architect | Speaker | The Product Rep Coach

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