Closed Loop Sales Method
A follow-up method that keeps the useful context from a lead's first response all the way to the human handover. The point is that nobody has to restart the conversation or ask a warm lead to repeat herself.
Glossary
The useful definitions.
The Client Funnels frameworks and terms, written so each one can stand on its own.
C
Conversation agent
A configured first-response system that opens, qualifies and nurtures a conversation in a defined voice. It is not a substitute for judgement in a high-value sale, which is why it has explicit handover rules.
Conversation Gap
The revenue gap between someone showing interest and someone being ready to buy. It appears when attention arrives but no one has the time or system to keep the right conversations moving.
Conversion Gap
The difference between the interest a business creates and the sales it actually captures. The Conversation Gap is often the practical cause: attention is there, but follow-up is late, generic or absent.
Cruise
The middle phase of the Sales and Marketing Flight Plan. Cruise qualifies and nurtures in real conversation, so the business can identify who is ready, who needs time and who is not a fit.
H
Hand-raiser
Someone who has made a clear signal of interest, such as replying to a message, scanning a QR code or asking for a resource. A hand-raiser has not necessarily asked to buy, so the next move is a conversation, not a pitch.
Handover logic
The set of rules that tells a conversation agent when to stop and bring in a person. It protects tone, judgement and high-value relationships by defining what the system should not try to do alone.
L
Landing
The final phase of the Sales and Marketing Flight Plan. Landing is the human conversion moment, where the system hands over the right context to the right person and the business decides what happens next.
P
P.U.N.T.
A practical way to decide when a live conversation needs a human rather than another automated response. It is used to make handover safer and more useful, rather than pretending every question has one scripted answer.
S
Sales and Marketing Flight Plan®
Client Funnels' operating framework for conversation-led growth. Takeoff captures intent while it is fresh, Cruise qualifies and nurtures it, and Landing brings in a human when the conversation deserves one.
Speed to lead
The time between a person showing interest and receiving a useful first response. It matters because intent is perishable: a timely acknowledgement starts a conversation while the reason for asking is still present.
T
Takeoff
The first phase of the Sales and Marketing Flight Plan. Takeoff converts a click, scan, reply or sign-up into a real conversation before the moment of interest has passed.
Trust channel
A communication channel where the person expects a direct, personal exchange rather than a broadcast. WhatsApp can be a trust channel when the business uses it with permission, context and a clear human handover.
V
Virtual business card
A simple, mobile-first way to move a new contact into a permissioned conversation. It gives the person a useful reason to message and gives the business the context to continue naturally.
Less overthinking. More talking.
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