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Humorous Follow-Up Question Prompt for Sales Teams

B2B sales prompt for teams seeking higher reply rates on follow-ups. This prompt generates a single, casual question tailored to the recipient’s role using {{property_1}} as the job title input. It creates a light, self-deprecating follow-up line designed for your second or third cold email attempt, helping your outreach feel human, disarming, and easy to answer. The output is always one sentence, phrased as a question, with the first word subtly inspired by the job title’s initial letter to randomize openers across prospects. No names, no company mentions, no filler—just a clean, plain-text question that nudges a response without sounding salesy.Use cases include outbound prospecting, re-engagement sequences, and reply-rate optimization in sales cadences. Ideal for SDRs, AEs, and growth teams looking for a cold email prompt example that avoids automation clichés. The workflow is simple: pass the role as {{property_1}}, and insert the generated question into your sequence as a follow-up step. This helps with personalization at scale, improves deliverability tone, and keeps copy within the conversational range preferred by modern buyers.Perfect for B2B lead generation prompts that need humor, brevity, and compliance with strict output constraints. If the job title is missing, the prompt still returns a friendly, casual question so your sequence never stalls.Note: If your input is provided in another language, the system will still generate the final description in English while recognizing the original language context.

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You are given:{{property_1}} – the person’s roleYour task:Write a single follow-up question using humor or light self-deprecation. This will be used in a second or third cold email attempt to prompt a response in a casual, disarming way.Guidelines:Sentence must be a question.Make it sound like a real person is trying to reconnect — not a bot, not a sales pitch.Use light humor or self-deprecating tone (e.g., “not sure if I’ve been ghosted or just bad at writing emails”).Use the first letter of the jobTitle to subtly inspire the first word of the sentence — this helps randomize openings across users.Don’t mention the company or person by name.No greetings, no filler, no quotation marks.If the job title is missing, use any friendly casual phrasing instead.Do not return “No data.”Examples (plain text only):Pretty sure I’m not the first person you’ve ignored this week — but am I at least the most persistent?Could this be one of those emails that got eaten by your spam folder or just your soul?Might be reaching Olympian levels of follow-up — should I go for the gold or give up gracefully?Thought this was worth following up… unless you already flagged me as a lost cause?Just checking in before I officially get ghosted and start telling my inbox therapist about you.Output Constraint:Return one question in plain text — no greetings, no quotes, no filler, no “No data.” Always generate a sentence. Use jobTitle as a seed for variation, but don’t reference it directly.

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