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Lance Armstrong's Metrics Applied to the Sale Force Equals Results
Recently, I completed Lance Armstrong's 2001 book on how he became a champion cyclist, was diagnosed with Cancer, beat the cancer, and then returned to become the greatest cyclist in the world. It was an inspiring, fast-reading book. While this won't come as a surprise to my cyclist friends, I was quite surprised to learn how metric-intensive competitive cycling is.
Your Sales and Sales Management Questions Answered
In an article last week, I provided the post to a sales competency contest. The final question in that survey asked the participants for any sales issues they needed help with. Today I'll answer the first four of those questions below:
Increase B2B Sales by Managing Your Prospecting and Sales Ratios
Are you a B2B salesperson looking to increase your annual income goal? If you're responsible for generating new business, you need to track and manage (improve) your ratios. And the best way to start is by looking at a meaningful number... your desired income. From there we'll work backwards to let you know exactly how to make that happen.

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How to Use HR Metrics Effectively
This brief article on organisational metrics provides 10 tips on leveraging metrics to best effect within organisations
How should CEOs select business metrics?
Metrics or measurements used for reviewing and planning various aspects of business have a lot of bearing on the results because what is measured and inspected is considered important by people. Metrics can be classified as historical or forward looking. Bias for historical data and analysis needs to be overcome. Customers, employees, and cash flows can provide vital clues to CEOs aiming to establish more forward looking signals and metrics. One can derive actionable points from even historical metrics if root-cause analysis for coming up with pro-active actions is done. Will all this take CEO's attention away from vision, innovation, and inspiring people? No. The above methods provide a springboard for day to day innovation and path breaking ideas. They also support realizing the vision.
2nd of the Top 10 Kurlan Sales Management Functions
This is the 2nd in the series of the 10 Kurlan Sales Management Functions. #1 - ACCOUNTABILITY In its simplest form, sales accountability consists of the following: * Holding salespeople accountable to something measurable - metrics - on a daily basis * Being more demanding - being firmer and tougher * Eliminating Excuse Making - people take responsibility for their results More...
Monitoring Inside Sales Productivity
Most organizations have a very difficult time quantifying the productivity of their inside sales departments. If you don’t have a phone system that captures accurate dialing, contact, and other productivity metrics, use a simple manual process instead. Download our Sales Productivity Metrics(Daily), Sales Productivity Metrics (Monthly), and Sales Productivity Metrics (Quarterly) reporting tools. How can you Measure Inside Sales Productivity?
Change for Good...What You Leverage and Measure, You Get!
Planning for change is a key phrase of the day. We all know why...we have to get better, be more productive, drive more customer loyalty, make less errors, do more sales, achieve more employee engagement. "You can't manage what you don't measure" is a companion mantra, acknowledging the value of meaningful change metrics.

Components of Effective Compensation Plans
Executive Summary: A problem arises when sales leaders struggle to measure the effectiveness of the compensation plan in place for their sales reps. Compensation plans, particularly those with a variable component, are designed to illicit desirable behaviors and/or outcomes from reps. Many sales leaders are discovering that they have been paying reps for results that were not the primary objectives for the company. This is simply wasted money. Setting well thoughtout, clearly defined objectives with aligned metrics attached, will ensure that both the company and sales reps reap the benefits of a solid compensation plan.
Tale of Two Clients - Sales Training! :) versus Saaaales Training (:
Here's an interesting comparison for you. Two client companies are on the exact same sales development time line. (Same time line but separate from each other - they don't even know about each other) Both of their sales forces went through sales force evaluations at the exact same time. Both of their sales management teams were developed at the same time. Both of their sales organizations received sales infrastructure help (sales process, sales pipeline, metrics, sales recruiting process, etc).
Who Cares More-Sales or Marketing?
Sales and Marketing share a lot of the same common interests, revenue, leads, conversions, metrics...and the list goes on. So who cares more about these things that both professions should take a keen interest in. Sales or Marketing? Here's my opinion.

Essential Marketing Metrics for Small Business Owners
As a self-employed professional or small business owner, time is your most valuable resource. It can be tough to juggle business with life and create balance. The best way to make the most of your time is to implement metrics. Metrics will allow you to measure results of your actions so that you can better manage your available time.

How to Harness the Power of Culture
Optimizing your culture should command as much attention as performance metrics, operations, finances, sales and every other organizational discipline.
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