I’m seeing more and more sales reps setting up an email auto response that lets everyone know that they only check email twice a day. The email includes a phone number for people to call if it’s urgent.

From a time management perspective, I understand this completely.

In fact, with the average person sending and receiving 100+ emails per day Radacatti Group), and checking their smartphone 46 times per day (Deloitte), it might even free up some time but . . .

From an “I care about my clients” perspective, I think we might be missing the mark.

Throughout the business day there are interruptions.

Some will be good and some will be not so good but;

They are still interruptions that we need to manage if we want to keep a relentless focus on the plan to;

1. Get New Business
2. Keep and “WOW” That Business
3. Grow That Business

One thing you can do, is to think about how you want to handle your emails.

Then, you might want to think bigger picture and think about how you want to handle the things that interrupt you (good or bad) from the task at hand.

When you think about your plan, think about it from your customer’s perspective too.

And remember, there are always extreme ways of thinking with regard to sales.

One extreme is that you check and respond to your email twice a day.

The other extreme is that you stop what you’re doing, lose that momentum, then try and get your groove back every time an email hits your inbox.

Instead of extremes . . .

Perhaps the answer is somewhere in the middle?

We’re going to be talking a lot about creating effective plans (and managing the things that keep us from achieving them) in our webinar A Simple Plan To Grow Your Sales on May 10th at 11:30 am EST.

We’re going to talk about a formula I’ve used to grow my own business and the hundreds of businesses I’ve personally coached.

We’re going to help you create an “11:30 Plan” to help you show up more consistently on a daily,weekly and monthly basis.

You’ll discover 10 ways to ROCK your sales efforts and how you can free up more time, to hunt more,without going into overtime!

We’ll explore 3 sales activities, that you can automate, to save time and make more money.

We’re also going to discuss the things that have been taking you away from a bigger paycheck and what YOU can do to regain control!

I’ll be sharing over 25 ideas and tactics to help you bring your sales to the next level!

Oh, and . . .

An effective plan doesn’t need to be complicated, in fact, all we’re talking about here is;

A Simple Plan To Grow Your Sales!