FUTURE OF SELLING · JASON LIM
What if outreach from Hong Kong booked dated meetings, not a longer list of polite replies? Imagine a first note a buyer actually answers, and a first meeting that is worth the calendar slot. Even if the inbox has gone quiet, the open can be rebuilt. It's like knocking on a door with a reason to be there, not sliding a flyer under it and walking on.
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Our graduates have produced 8-figure results and beyond.
Since 2016, his events have reached 100,000+ founders across Asia.
20+ years of coaching, starting with basketball at 16.
Closed $7M+ in deals by 24 and rebuilt from zero twice.
The $7M+ started with conversations he had to open himself, so prospecting is coached as a path to a meeting, not as a volume contest.
Coaching since sixteen here means a drill of the open, the follow-up and the first meeting, repeated until they hold.
Those 8-figure results were produced by graduates applying the method. Two of their stories are below.
Joel Bauer and Tony Robbins are two of them. The full list follows in his story below.
P.I.T.C.H. gives your first message and first meeting a point, so a busy Hong Kong buyer can see why a reply is worth their time.
We tighten the first sentence, then the first meeting, so outreach improves in a way you can send next week.
You work on the accounts and messages you already have, so the next week's outreach is the new version.
Taken from sales prospecting training in Singapore and applied to the outreach your Hong Kong team is sending now.
You define who in Hong Kong is worth a first meeting, and you stop spending the week on names that cannot buy.
Power, Intent, Teach, Close and Habits become the open, the first meeting and the ask for a dated next step.
You rehearse the message and the first conversation until both can survive a sceptical read.
“I stopped focusing on the academic jargon and started speaking to the real emotional drivers behind the parent’s concerns: their child’s self-esteem, confidence, and future.”
“she actually committed to doubling the frequency of classes, which means I’ll be earning twice as much from this one student!”
Javier Wong, CEO, Lifetutors Singapore. Programmes attended: Facebook Ads Mastery, Perfect Client System, Trustable Brand, SpeakerFEAR, HighTicket Authority.
“Jason pointed out an event that I can partner with. But, crafting a collaboration email is not exactly my strength.”
“Plus, within 10 minutes I received a favourable reply from the recipient!”
Wee Jun Wei, Managing Director, Lara-J. Programmes attended: Diamond Consult, Facebook Ads Mastery.

A financial scam took the family's savings, so Jason Lim's mother worked in coffee shops by day and factories by night. There was no money for tuition, and no time for extra classes. At 14, he worked at McDonald's to help his family. At 16, he became a basketball coach and began teaching.
He took his first sales job at 21 and later closed over $7 million in deals. He founded DreaMaker Ventures and its flagship, Future of Selling. In 2020, he lost what he had built. He kept teaching the skill that had brought him back. He also learned from renowned mentors: Marshall Thurber (creator of Money & You®), Joel Bauer, Tony Robbins, Chet Holmes and Bob Proctor. Teams from Skystone Asset Management, Signarama Singapore, Enlightenment Education, Mindreader AI and 8Yolk Design Studio have studied with him.
Replies are polite, and meetings are rare.
A Hong Kong buyer can smell a template in a line.
You got the slot, and still could not earn a second one.
Time buyers spend with suppliers
17%
When B2B buyers are considering a purchase, they spend only 17% of that time meeting with potential suppliers. When they compare several suppliers, the time with any one sales rep may be only 5% to 6%.
Most buyers prefer to research on their own, so sloppy outreach is checked against a thin profile and ignored.
Effort rises, and qualified conversations do not.
The issue is the open, not the city.
Sleep goes with them, and the list is no warmer.
A hundred conversations with the wrong people will not save the quarter.
Teams add tools and send more, then wonder why qualified pipeline stays flat. Volume hides a weak first sentence. It's like shouting down more streets and calling it a new route.
Buyers spend only 17% of buying time with suppliers. Outreach should earn a slice of that time, not add more noise to an inbox.
People still want help judging fit. A first conversation that offers that help is easier to accept than a product dump.
InvestHK helped 560 companies set up or expand in Hong Kong in 2025. That is a concrete list of organisations worth a thoughtful approach.
Hong Kong had 5,200+ startups in 2025. Good prospecting is about the right founders, not every founder.
Companies setting up in Hong Kong
560
Overseas and Mainland companies InvestHK helped set up or expand in Hong Kong in 2025, a record high and 4% more than in 2024.
Source: Hong Kong SAR Government press release, 26 January 2026
Startups in Hong Kong
5,200+
Startup firms in Hong Kong in 2025, an 11% year-on-year increase, employing nearly 20,000 people.
Source: news.gov.hk, “Startups thriving in HK”, 26 January 2026 (InvestHK data)
Buyers who'd rather skip the rep
61%
Of B2B buyers prefer an overall rep-free buying experience, yet for tasks such as judging whether a product or service fits their company's needs, buyers prefer to seek seller input.
Source: Gartner press release, 25 June 2025: survey of 632 B2B buyers, August to September 2024
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