FUTURE OF SELLING · JASON LIM
Sales Prospecting Training in Shanghai for Founders and BD Teams
What if the next outreach earned a meeting because the first line was specific, not louder? Imagine a prospecting conversation that sounds like research, and a calendar that fills with the right rooms rather than polite declines. Even if inboxes are crowded and cold calling feels outdated, you can still open doors with a clear reason to talk. It's like fishing with a charted spot instead of casting at every ripple.
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Closed $7M+ in deals by 24 and rebuilt from zero twice.
Since 2016, his events have reached 100,000+ founders across Asia.
Our graduates have produced 8-figure results and beyond.
Why learn from Jason Lim?
He has done what he teaches.
He closed over $7 million in deals, so prospecting is built to earn a meeting, not to win a volume contest.
Coaching since his teens.
He started coaching basketball at 16, and outreach is practised as a short play: one opening, one ask, then review.
Proof from people who used it.
8-figure results have come from graduates who applied the method; two of their stories appear further down, and Shanghai outreach is written with it.
Mentored by renowned teachers.
He studied under Marshall Thurber (creator of Money & You®), Joel Bauer, Tony Robbins, Chet Holmes and Bob Proctor. An opening is tested on a real list, not on a template.
Why is Future of Selling the best sales prospecting training in Shanghai?
A proven framework.
P.I.T.C.H. turns the first message into a reason to meet, so you are not asking for time without offering a point of view.
An easy, step-by-step system.
Each opening is tried on a real list before a second opening is added.
Fast results.
You train on the live list and the live offer, so the next batch of outreach uses the new version.
The sales prospecting training in Singapore method, applied for Shanghai rooms.
How sales prospecting training with Future of Selling works
- 1
Learn the rules of selling.
You learn what a busy buyer will actually reply to, and you practise that opening out loud.
- 2
Learn P.I.T.C.H., Jason's signature method.
Power, Intent, Teach, Close and Habits applied to messages, calls and the first meeting you are trying to book.
- 3
Learn the art and science of closing and countering objections.
The team rehearses brush-offs and 'send me an email' until the ask stays clear and polite.
Once the meeting is booked, the pitch itself may need work. See sales pitch coaching or sales coaching.
Top reviews for Future of Selling by founders and business-development teams in Shanghai: Success Stories and Transformations
“Well, to my surprised that when he stood in front of the audience, not only he is able to hold himself well as a speaker, presenter but also the material that he started sharing with us was mind blowing.”
Tony Teng, Executive Director, Business Network International (BNI) Singapore.
“Plus, within 10 minutes I received a favourable reply from the recipient!”
Wee Jun Wei, Managing Director, Lara-J.
Stop sending another round of generic Shanghai outreach
Apply for Future of Selling sales prospecting training in ShanghaiWho is Jason Lim?
Jason Lim's first student was Jane, from Malaysia, who could not pay her rent and was ready to go home. After doing what he taught her, she became one of her company's top 10 sales producers for three months running. She also sent gifts home for Chinese New Year, for the first time. He says that moment lit a fire that went beyond money.
He built Future of Selling and created P.I.T.C.H. so more founders could get that result. At 16, he began teaching on a basketball court. After he learned to sell, he closed over $7 million in deals. He trained under renowned mentors: Marshall Thurber (creator of Money & You®), Joel Bauer, Tony Robbins, Chet Holmes and Bob Proctor. People from Skystone Asset Management, Signarama Singapore, Enlightenment Education, Mindreader AI and 8Yolk Design Studio have trained with him.
Are you facing this right now?
The list is large and the replies are thin.
Volume goes up, and the meetings that appear are the wrong fit.
The first line could have been sent to anyone.
A busy Shanghai buyer deletes it with the rest of the week's mail.
Calls get to 'send me something' and die.
There is no agreed time, and the follow-up is another brochure.
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%.
What happens if this continues?
Unsolicited mail is easy to ignore.
Most buyers prefer to research on their own, so prospecting that adds no point of view is easy to delete.
High activity, few meetings.
The team works harder on a list that was never qualified, and the calendar stays light.
Messages that sound like everyone else's.
You buy another data tool and still cannot write an opening anyone answers.
It follows you home.
Evenings go to more messages, and the next morning looks the same.
Then a quarter starts with an empty calendar.
The pipeline cannot be rescued mid-month if the first conversations were never designed.
Why do High activity, few meetings and messages that sound like everyone else's keep repeating and never go away?
Most prospecting is treated as a numbers problem: more names, more cadences. Buyers reply to a specific reason to meet. When that reason is missing, activity only creates more silence. It's like knocking on every door on the street with the same flyer.
How Future of Selling can help
Earn the first minute, or lose the meeting.
A buyer gives almost no time to an unknown seller. The opening has to earn the meeting on its own.
Open with a view on fit, not a brochure.
Buyers still want a seller's input on whether a conversation is worth having. That is what good prospecting offers.
Prospect into a year of new foreign-invested firms.
New foreign-invested enterprises established in China in 2025, 19.1% more than in 2024. The work is to open doors those organisations will actually answer.
Build a list that matches who is arriving in Shanghai.
New foreign-invested enterprises established in Shanghai in 2025, 6.8% more than in 2024. The work is to write a first line those buyers might reply to.
New foreign-invested enterprises in China
70,392
New foreign-invested enterprises established in China in 2025, 19.1% more than in 2024.
Source: Ministry of Commerce of the People's Republic of China (MOFCOM) News Office, 23 January 2026
New foreign-invested enterprises in Shanghai
6,361
New foreign-invested enterprises established in Shanghai in 2025, 6.8% more than in 2024.
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
Get the first conversation earning a real meeting.
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