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Why first-touch response time still beats every other sales metric

A teardown of 4,200 inquiries: the leads contacted inside five minutes converted at 9× the rate of those contacted the next morning.

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Cathal Byrne

Cathal Byrne writes for LeadsCloser on the operational side of running a modern brokerage: pipelines, follow-up, and the dashboards that actually get opened.

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