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Prospects
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Work you are pursuing before it is a project: the board, a client’s email read into a new prospect, starting from a past project, what’s happened in your own words, and making it a project when it’s won.
In the manual: Prospects
Transcript
0:01Prospects.
0:03Prospects are jobs you’re pursuing but haven’t won. Each stage is a column, with its count and rough value.
0:11These are labeled examples, left out of the totals.
0:15Or see them as a list, sorted by any column.
0:19They’re private to your sales group: the owners, and any role given Pursues new work. A colleague you add to one sees only that one.
0:29Home lists the ones that need a look.
0:32Press New prospect, and paste the client’s email.
0:36One AI action reads it into the form. Each filled field says from the email, with the line it came from.
0:44The sender is matched to Calloway, an existing client, and it notes they already have a prospect open.
0:51Or start from a past project: its areas, and a rough budget based on what it came to, by area and by category.
1:00The prospect shows its stage on a track; Move to takes it to the next.
1:06What’s happened? takes an update in your own words, typed or dictated, and turns it into changes, each with the words it came from. Uncheck any, and apply.
1:18Your words are kept as a dated note either way.
1:22Won? Make it a project gives it a number, a manager and a team; the brief, files and contacts come along.
1:30Prospects don’t count toward your plan’s project limit. Once it’s a project, it does.
1:36That’s Prospects. More videos: portspace.io/videos