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Why Deals Stall After Discovery and How to Prevent It

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This is the tactical companion to the JOLT diagnosis: it gives you word-for-word language to reopen a dead thread without sounding needy. Instead of 'just following up,' you go back to the original pain ('when we last spoke, your team was struggling with X, how has that been impacting your Q3 goals?'), surface the hidden decision-makers ('who else will be involved and what does approval usually look like?'), and quantify the cost of doing nothing in their own numbers.

• Reopen on the buyer's pain and deadline, never on your need for an update: a pain-anchored question earns a reply where 'checking in' gets ignored
• Ask directly who else must say yes and what the approval process looks like, because the silence usually means your champion hit a wall you cannot see
• Put the cost of inaction in concrete hours or rupees they already gave you, so standing still feels more expensive than deciding