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TheRealDood

Head of Sales

Contributor

Fire Starter

Old School Bravo

How do you deal with demo no-shows?

Something that happens to every single one of us... does anyone have a solid template that gets good Response/Open Rates?

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DaveGreen

Arsonist

Head of Sales

Step 1: Send an email 3 mins after the starting time:

Subject: Troubles logging on?

Body:
Hi XXX,

Are you having troubles logging onto our meeting? This is the link in case you're looking for it in your inbox: *insert link*

See you soon!

XXX

Step 2: Call after 5 minutes

Step 3: Email again after 15 minutes (put your SDR in cc to notify them)

Subject: I missed you...

Body:
Hi XXX,

I missed you at our scheduled meeting at XXX. Hope everything is ok?

We were super excited to talk about X and Y and prepared how we help you solve that. (points from discovery)

Let me know when we can reschedule - my calendar is quite full but feel free to pick a new date and time here: *insert meeting link*

Thanks!

XXX

Step 4: Back to SDR to chase and reschedule

Opal

Arsonist

Crocs Model

Call them. Also, I've said this in another thread but 9/10 times they didn't show up because you didn't give them a good reason to. You chased the "yes" and didn't add any value to their life.

GDO

Politicker

BDM

Yes! Thi is valuable advice. One of my managers used to say, chase the no.

Rallier

Politicker

Account Executive

I always guilt them a little and say something “we worked hard preparing for our meeting so it’s a shame you couldn’t make it, when would be a better time?”

goose

Politicker

+10

Sales Executive

I don't think buyers give a shit how long we've prepared for a meeting that they accepted from a random call from our SDR who was sitting on his couch playing xbox.

Rallier

Politicker

Account Executive

It worked a shit ton for me. But maybe because I wasn’t an SDR sitting on my couch play Xbox

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goose

Politicker

+10

Sales Executive

Do you think it's easier to accept the meeting and ghost it or try to explain why you aren't interested? Accepting the meeting and ghosting probably gets you off the cadences quicker...

34fifty

Valued Contributor

Team Lead

Question my very existence

softwaresails

Politicker

Sales Manager

Call call call. Typically something came up and they can always be rescheduled.

I never try to shake them. They know what they did.

Kinonez

Arsonist

Team Lead

Call them and email them, find out why they didn't show. if you never get them back on the phone, then they were just not intrested. however if they were they need to know you care about them

BigMeech

WR Officer

+11

Coors Light Advocate

I just reach out and ask what time works better. If they no show twice I assume the need is not as great as I thought, they just accepted to get the SDR to stop bugging them, and/or they have given up on the project (depends on what stage the no shows happen).

Justatitle

Politicker

Senior AE

Light a bag of poop and leave it on their doorstep

CuriousFox

WR Officer

+11

Needer of Life Alert

I call and ask if they are joining the event. If they don't answer then I wait 5 minutes and then reschedule.

GDO

Politicker

BDM

Just contact them and check why they were not there. Shit can always happen so I try to reschedule.

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