mobileHow to Fill the Prospecting Input Table by Role

Here you will learn what to input in every field of the Prospecting input table based on the type of prospector you are...

Prospecting is meant to be used by all sales reps who make prospecting efforts, but this also means that some people will fill it out differently than others. Let’s look at some examples.

Filling it in as a Setter

Normal Session

  • Hours 🕒: How many hours you worked in total in this session.

  • Assigned Leads: How many leads you assigned to yourself to contact (the ones you took to work on that day).

  • Valid Leads: How many of those leads were valid.

    For setters, practically all leads will be valid, except bots or obviously fake profiles (which ideally you should not assign to yourself).

  • Attempts: The number of attempts you made to contact or re-engage the lead.

    When the session is a Normal Session, Attempts = Assigned Leads and Valid Leads.

  • Responses: Only the first response from the lead after your first message is counted.

    • If they answer “yes, I’m interested” or “no, I don’t want to know anything,” it still counts as 1 response.

    • Any further replies from that same lead are not counted again here.

  • Convos: All the people you have brought into the prospecting process.

    • That is, conversations that went from just “breaking the ice” to truly starting the process for the lead to book a call.

    • If you later do follow up because the conversation died or they stopped replying, that is another Attempt, but not a new Convo.

(If you cannot use tags to clearly differentiate when each lead moves from one stage to another in Responses and Convos, you can use the same number so that Responses = Convos. In that case, it would be all the people you are currently talking to, so the numbers would be the same: Responses = Convos.)

  • Offers: All the offers you made, we count an offer from the moment you invite the lead to jump on a call – even if you haven’t sent the booking link yet.

  • Booked: The number of bookings achieved (appointments actually reserved in the calendar).

  • Deposits: The number of deposits made (if applicable).

  • Closes: The number of closed deals (closed sales), if applicable.

  • Net Revenue: Net revenue generated (if applicable).

Follow-Up Session

In these sessions, you do not take new leads. You only re-engage existing conversations.

  • Hours 🕒: How many hours you worked in this follow-up session.

  • Assigned Leads: Not counted in this session (you are not assigning new leads).

    Leave it as 0.

  • Valid Leads: Not counted in this session (there are no new leads to validate).

    Leave it as 0.

  • Attempts: The attempts you make to re-engage the lead (follow-up messages, etc., in that session) serve the purpose of showing how many attempts you make per lead, ideal to measure follow-up efforts.

  • Responses: Not counted here, because we only consider the first response from the lead after our first message (that is recorded in the normal session).

    Leave it as 0.

  • Convos: No new Convos are added just for doing follow up.

    • If you send a follow-up because the conversation went cold, that is another Attempt, but not a new Convo.

    Leave it as 0.

  • Offers: All the offers you made, we count an offer from the moment you invite the lead to jump on a call – even if you haven’t sent the booking link yet.

  • Booked: The number of bookings generated in this follow up session.

  • Deposits: The number of deposits made in this session (if applicable).

  • Closes: The number of closed deals in this session (if applicable).

  • Net Revenue: Net revenue generated in this session (if applicable).

Visual Example of a Normal and a Follow-up session (Counting Responses and Convos)

Visual Example of a Normal and a Follow-up session (Where Responses = Convos)

Filling it in as a Cold Caller

Normal Session

  • Hours 🕒: How many hours you worked in total in that session.

  • Assigned Leads: How many leads you assigned to yourself to call.

  • Valid Leads:

    How many of those leads were valid, meaning how many numbers work and can actually be used to call.

  • Attempts: The number of call attempts you made to get the lead to answer (calls made, even if they don’t pick up).

  • Responses: Counted when the person answers your call (each lead counts once, the first time they answer).

  • Convos: All the people with whom you had a real conversation:

    • You move from just “breaking the ice” to starting the prospecting process with the intention of booking a call.

  • Offers: All the offers you made, we count an offer from the moment you invite the lead to jump on a call – even if you haven’t sent the booking link yet.

  • Booked: The number of bookings you achieved (appointments reserved in the calendar).

  • Deposits: The number of deposits made (if applicable).

  • Closes: The number of closed deals (closed sales), if applicable.

  • Net Revenue: Net revenue generated (if applicable).

Follow-Up Session

Sessions dedicated to calling again leads you already contacted previously.

  • Hours 🕒: How many hours you worked in this follow up session.

  • Assigned Leads: Not counted because you are not assigning new leads.

    Leave it as 0.

  • Valid Leads: Not counted because there are no new leads to validate.

    Leave it as 0.

  • Attempts: The number of calls you made in this session (follow-up calls).

  • Responses: Each time the person answers your call in this session.

  • Convos: People with whom you had a prospecting conversation and started the process for them to book.

  • Offers: All the offers you made, we count an offer from the moment you invite the lead to jump on a call – even if you haven’t sent the booking link yet.

  • Booked: The number of bookings generated in this follow up session.

  • Deposits: The number of deposits made in this session (if applicable).

  • Closes: The number of closed deals in this session (if applicable).

  • Net Revenue: Net revenue generated in this session (if applicable).

Visual Example

Filling it in as a Closer after Sales Calls

Typically, as a Closer, you will use Prospecting when you want to follow up with a lead you’ve already had a call with and re-engage them to continue the sales process. Prospecting is useful because it allows you to measure your prospecting efforts with leads after a sales call.

Normal Session

A normal sessions, is when

  • Hours 🕒: How many hours you worked in total in this prospecting session.

  • Assigned Leads: How many leads you contact for the first time after the sales call.

  • Valid Leads: How many of those assigned leads were valid.

    For closers, practically all leads will be valid, because this are people you have had already a call.

  • Attempts: The number of attempts you made to contact or re-engage the lead.

    When the session is a Normal Session, Attempts = Assigned Leads and Valid Leads.

  • Responses: Only the first response from the lead after your first message is counted.

    • If they answer “yes, I’m interested” or “no, I don’t want to know anything,” it still counts as 1 response.

    • Any further replies from that same lead are not counted again here.

  • Convos: All the people you have brought into the prospecting process.

    • That is, conversations that went from just “breaking the ice” to truly starting the process for the lead to book a call.

    • If you later do follow up because the conversation died or they stopped replying, that is another Attempt, but not a new Convo.

(If you cannot use tags to clearly differentiate when each lead moves from one stage to another in Responses and Convos, you can use the same number so that Responses = Convos. In that case, it would be all the people you are currently talking to, so the numbers would be the same: Responses = Convos.)

  • Offers: All the offers you made, we count an offer from the moment you invite the lead to jump on a call – even if you haven’t sent the booking link yet.

  • Booked: The number of bookings achieved (appointments actually reserved in the calendar).

  • Deposits: The number of deposits made (if applicable).

  • Closes: The number of closed deals (closed sales), if applicable.

  • Net Revenue: Net revenue generated (if applicable).

Follow-Up Session

In these sessions, you do not take new leads. You only re-engage existing conversations.

  • Hours 🕒: How many hours you worked in this follow-up session.

  • Assigned Leads: Not counted in this session (you are not assigning new leads).

    Leave it as 0.

  • Valid Leads: Not counted in this session (there are no new leads to validate).

    Leave it as 0.

  • Attempts: The attempts you make to re-engage the lead (follow-up messages, etc. in that session) serve the purpose to show how many attempts you make per lead;, it works to showcase follow-up efforts per lead.

  • Responses: Not counted here, because we only consider the first response from the lead after our first message (that is recorded in the normal session).

    Leave it as 0 or blank.

  • Convos: No new Convos are added just for doing follow up.

    • If you send a follow-up because the conversation went cold, that is another Attempt, but not a new Convo.

    In a follow up session, this number usually stays the same.

  • Offers: All the offers you made, we count an offer from the moment you invite the lead to jump on a call – even if you haven’t sent the booking link yet.

  • Booked: The number of bookings generated in this follow-up session.

  • Deposits: The number of deposits made in this session (if applicable).

  • Closes: The number of closed deals in this session (if applicable).

  • Net Revenue: Net revenue generated in this session (if applicable).

Visual Example

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