Qualification
How you decide whether a prospect is worth pursuing, before you invest serious time in them.
Good fit looks like
- Trait 1 — concrete, observable
- Trait 2
- Trait 3
Bad fit looks like
- Trait 1 — the patterns that have wasted your time before
- Trait 2
Questions to ask early
- The two or three questions that surface fit-or-not in the first conversation.
What to do when it's not a fit
How you say no kindly. A clean no protects the next person's time on both sides.
Last modified: 11 May 2026