r/growthguide

I have been struggling with this a lot lately.

Whenever I reach out to people for content collaborations, clients or even simple business inquiries I usually do not get a response away.

I understand that people are busy so I try to follow up with them after a few days.

Every time I do I start overthinking the follow up to content collaborations, the follow up to clients and the follow up to simple business inquiries.

I do not want to come off as annoying or desperate when I follow up so sometimes I delay following up with them.... Then I end up just not doing it at all.

So I am trying to figure out an approach that actually works long-term.

How do you guys handle follow ups to content collaborations, clients and to business inquiries in a way that feels natural and not pushy?

Do you have a system for following up with people or do you just use templates and stick to a schedule, for following up with them?

I am starting to feel overwhelmed with customer messages as things grow.

I am not sure the way I am handling customer messages is sustainable anymore. In the beginning replying manually to customer messages was fine and even enjoyable because I could keep things and build real connections with customers.

Now the volume of customer messages has increased across different platforms and it is getting harder to keep up with customer messages without delays or missing customer messages entirely.

What is frustrating is that I do not want to lose that touch with customers but I also cannot keep responding one by one to customer messages forever. I have tried setting aside time blocks to reply to customer messages.

It still feels reactive instead of organized when it comes to handling customer messages. Some days, I am fast at responding to customer messages. Days I fall behind with customer messages and it is starting to affect consistency in handling customer messages.

For those who have gone through this stage of handling customer messages, how did you handle customer messages?

Did you build a system for handling customer messages, hire help to handle customer messages or automate parts of the process of handling customer messages? I am really curious about what actually works, for handling customer messages.

I keep seeing people post a lot but only a few really grow. Just trying to understand what actually works behind the scenes in social media today.

I did not really notice how messy my workflow was until it started slowing me down.

I was jumping between tasks, forgetting things, rewriting the same things over and over, and constantly feeling like I was busy but not actually moving forward with my work.

At some point, it stopped feeling like my work was hard. I started feeling like chaos with my work.

What changed things for me with my work was not working harder with my work. It was slowing down.

Structuring how I do my work.

I started writing down my work things instead of keeping everything about my work in my head. I broke work tasks into smaller steps with my work, so I was not always overwhelmed with my work.. I set simple routines with my work, so I was not have to decide what to do every time I sat down to do my work.

It sounds basic. It honestly made everything about my work feel lighter.

I still have a lot to do every day with my work. Now it does not feel scattered with my work. I just follow a process with my work. Move through it with my work.

Funny enough, nothing about my work changed…. Everything about my work became easier once I stopped doing my work randomly.

What is one small change that made your work easier too, with your work?

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