What Sales Process Behavior Charts Can Tell You

June 1, 2009 by Michael  
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Dear Readers, Thank you for the excellent remarks about what process behavior charts can tell you from last week’s blog post. For convenience, I have reproduced the image here (with interpretation below).

Figure 1 - Sales Process Behavior Charts

Figure 1 - Sales Process Behavior Charts

Mark Allen said:
Looks like while they are closing, they are not also prospecting…and unfortunately I see B2Bs do this frequently. This is by far one of the single biggest headaches that drives CEOs crazy as it adds a degree of variability that hits home where it hurts…in cash flow.

Bingo!

Sales Production Bottleneck

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What Can You Tell From These Sales Process Behavior Charts?

May 27, 2009 by Michael  
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Pictures are worth a thousand words, especially when it comes to measuring sales and marketing production.

Measuring Sales Production Correctly

Figure 1 below contains two process behavior charts showing production measurements from a B2B company’s sales process. The first shows the quantity of qualified opportunities generated per month. The second shows Read more