Somewhere in your business right now there's an estimate that went out, got a "let me think about it," and then went quiet. Not a no, not a yes, just silence. If you own a local service business, a good chunk of the revenue you're chasing is probably already sitting in your inbox in a quote nobody has looked at in ten days.

In this episode of The Business Mountain Podcast, Ginny Seeley walks through what happens after the estimate, drawing on the sales as a service training EJ of EJ's Appliances brought to the Cavalry Appliance Service team. You'll hear why "estimate sent" is a starting line and not a finish line, the two reasons follow-up doesn't happen (nobody owns it, and nobody wants to feel pushy), and the five things every open estimate needs: a stage, a last contact, a next action, a due date, and an owner. Ginny also breaks down the only three jobs a follow-up message can do and why "just checking in" never belongs in a customer's inbox.

You'll leave with a fifteen-minute weekly review that turns a simple Camp 1 tracker into a Camp 2 habit in the Sales Operations category of the Business Mountain Framework, plus EJ's reframe that persuasion is helping someone finish a decision they already started. This one is for the owner who's tired of watching quotes disappear and wants a system that fits on an index card. If it helps, follow the show and share it with a business owner who needs it.

Mentioned in This Episode
The Open Estimate Tracker (free Google Sheet)
Find Your Camp quiz: outcomeacademy.com/findmycamp
The Eight Thousander Expedition (pricing changes October 1): outcomeacademy.com/summit
EJ's Appliances, Lexington, Kentucky: ejsappliances@gmail.com

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