Thursday, July 8, 2010

how long does it take?

The school district I work for just hit the one year mark in our efforts to sell advertising to benefit our school district.  I found some interesting statistics. 

On average it takes about 3 people to reach the decision-maker
About 13.375 phone calls or emails with that person.
And about 5.625 months to close a deal from start-to-finish.

It's interesting.  This stuff doesn't happen over night but it does happen.  And - I can say with the utmost certainty the pace picks up the longer you have your programs in place.  You'll start to receive call-in's and do less outbound calling.  You'll be worrying more about invoicing than lead generation.

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