Melissa Rich - Rich Enterprises Inc » pipeline http://blog.richworldwide.com Where our business is growing your business Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:00:06 +0000 en hourly 1 Sales stages and pipelines – review your statistics http://blog.richworldwide.com/2009/04/23/sales-stages-and-pipelines-review-your-statistics/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sales-stages-and-pipelines-review-your-statistics http://blog.richworldwide.com/2009/04/23/sales-stages-and-pipelines-review-your-statistics/#comments Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:28:10 +0000 melissa http://blog.richworldwide.com/?p=134 As your prospects mature and become new clients, they are progressing through your sales stages or sales pipeline.   Reviewing the related statistics can provide a wealth of information and help you enhance your sales efforts:

  • Determine bottlenecks.   Are prospects stopping or slowing at a specific stage?  What can you do to increase the flow?
  • Overall, how many prospects are in your pipeline and how does that compare with prior numbers?   Why are your numbers significantly different from last year or last month?  Can you attribute successes or failures to specific actions?
  • Based upon your pipeline, what are you projecting for the future?   If you are expecting an increase in business, are you prepared for the additional business?   If your numbers indicate that you will experience a slow down, what can you do to minimize that slow down or what measures can you take prepare?

As you can see, measuring your sales pipeline can provide a wealth of information that benefits the business as a whole – not just the sales department.    Put a system in place to harvest this information and your business will certainly benefit.

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