Sales cycles will only slap you back in the face 45-180 days after you've stopped prospecting.
Humans have short-term memories and I know entrepreneurs who will go decades with this up-and-down cycle: they stop the lead machine for whatever reason, forget about it and only wake up a couple of months later when the business is cash flow negative.
I say:
get a sales stack like Apollo + Sendgrid that can be automated
set 10 winning campaigns and forget about prospecting
get leads forever through smart automation and ai copywriting
what doesn't make sense in the points I outlined?