Are you opening your messenger to a ton of unanswered messages? First of all, that’s completely normal and okay so don’t beat yourself up about it. But, I do want to share how I change my mindset when I see that they left me on read. Let’s talk about how to get people to respond to you and how you can follow-up in your next message.
You definitely want to look back through your messenger and see if you can identify a common theme in your initial messages to see why you’re losing them. It’s possible that your tone of voice or your wording is throwing them off and that’s why they aren’t responding. Otherwise, I will always assume they’re busy and they opened my message and simply got distracted. Don’t assume that you’re the problem because that is not good for your mental health and it may distract you from the goals at hand.
If it’s been a couple of days since you last reached out, you can send a quick message asking them if they’ve properly received your last message, for example: “Hey, NAME! I recently sent you a message and I’m not sure if it made it through to you, so I wanted to double check!” I mean, honestly, how many times have you opened a message from someone and got distracted and you were the one who didn’t respond?! Train your brain to not assume that they’re uninterested or that you did something wrong.
If you send two messages with no response, then you move on from that person. Don’t message until you get a hard ‘no’ from them, otherwise you’ve just kicked them off of your leads list permanently. Did you know that 25% of people are ‘yellow personalities’, meaning they really care about people and love to build relationships, so, it may be hard for them to tell you a flat out ‘no.’ Don’t badger them to respond, let them go. But, make sure you’re staying in front of them.
People need multiple exposures before they take notice and become interested in your content. They need to see you, your content, your value, and how you are able to help them. If you’re creating curiosity with your content and sharing about your products in a way that’s indirect, maybe sprinkling in a business opportunity or challenge invite every now and then, they will start to take notice. Remember that this is a process. Don’t write people off immediately after they say no. It’s still possible that they will refer someone to you or come back later (even a year later!) Think about this process as a long-term deal, there’s no better time to start than now!
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