Average Number of Touches to Get a Meeting By Industry

A recent RSW-led analysis of the average number of touches (phone, email, mail, social) it takes to get a meeting revealed some pronounced differences by industry.

As we’ve known since we started our business in 2005, an agency new business program takes polite persistence, a value-added approach to outreach, and solid content to win the day.

Below is an infographic we created to showcase the average number of touches it takes to get a meeting, by industry.

If you struggle with number of touches, ideally this will serve as a guidepost to your own new business efforts.

Because if there’s any one new business hurdle agencies face most often, it’s giving up too easily when reaching out to prospects.

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I'm the VP of Sales at RSW/US. We specialize in working with services firms to help drive and close new business-if you need help with that, email me at lee@rswus.com. What I actually do: drive sales efforts to bring ad agencies and services firms on board with RSW, create content around successful new business tactics and help drive RSW/US marketing objectives, including social media channels, blog content, webinars, video and speaking engagements. Dig it.

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