Jude prepared one half. Your team decided the other.
01 / PREPARE
Everything known about the buyer, in one place.
Nobody answers a question like that from memory. The reply has to be read against what the business is dealing with, what the campaign already argued, and what this person has seen.
Jude assembles that. Your team reads it and decides what the answer should argue.
What Jude prepared
Opportunity brief
- The event behind the enquiry, and what it changes for Halloran Group.
- The message and page this buyer already read, so the reply continues the same thought.
- The buyer's role, and what somebody in that role is usually judged on.
- The question, stated plainly, with the deadline attached.
What your team decided
The line to take
- To answer the switchover day first, because that is what the buyer actually asked about.
- To offer one next step rather than three, because a choice of three defers the decision.
- Not to quote a number yet, and to say why.
02 / RESPOND
A draft your team can argue with.
Approving a machine drafted reply is the part people worry about, and the worry is reasonable. A reply written by something that has never met the buyer still goes out in your company name.
So Jude drafts and your team edits. The draft arrives with its reasoning attached, the edit is the person's, and nothing leaves until somebody approves it.
What Jude prepared
Drafted reply
- A first draft written from the brief, in your team's voice.
- The reasoning behind each paragraph, so an edit is an informed one.
- A callback and a follow-up, queued against the March contract end date.
What your team decided
The reply that was sent
- Replaced the offer of a site survey with a morning the person is free.
- Added the second site, because one visit can cover both.
- Changed the closing question so it asks for a date rather than a view.
- Approved and sent, under their own name.
03 / CLOSE
Prepared for the meeting, present in the room.
A proposal is the easiest thing to get wrong under time pressure, because the parts that take longest are the parts nobody sees.
Jude prepares those. Your team runs the meeting, reads the room and makes the commercial call.
What Jude prepared
Meeting pack and proposal draft
- A call brief with the objective and three talking points.
- A proposal draft built around what the buyer actually said.
- Everything the campaign has learned, in the order it will be needed.
- The follow-up, ready to go out the same day.
What your team decided
The commercial position
- What to charge, and what to include at that price.
- Which risk to carry, and which to name in the room.
- When to stop presenting and ask for the decision.
- The relationship, which stays theirs from here.