HubSpot Sales Statistics…With Secret Sauce Added

Hi everyone….

In my next series of posts, I am going to be talking about a data set that HubSpot published in 2018 on Sales Enablement Statistics. These are great bits of information for salespeople and sales managers to know in order to impact the actions they take with prospects and with selling and coaching time. I intend to address all 20 of them over time and I welcome you to share how they impact YOUR actions with your team or with your prospects.

1. 50% of sales time is wasted on poor prospects. How are your salespeople prioritizing their leads? Detailed marketing strategies help salespeople focus their energy and bring in leads that have potential—saving your reps time and effort.

For Salespeople: You MUST ask specific discovery questions that target the buyer's process of decision making. Without that, you will chase rainbows and leave good leads by the wayside because of a personal perspective that you have about the prospect. You need to have questions (BADAS) to determine their position in the buying process that you ask EVERY prospect in order to know how you should engage now and what the outcome is that you are driving to.

For Sales Managers: You also need to be mindful in reviewing new leads acted upon to find out how much the salesperson learned about the prospect and what the next actions are and when they will occur. And begin to create a history of time: when met, first actions and determinations, discover questions asked, appointments set (and for what outcome?), quote – close. AND their overall close ratio. You might trace it all the way back to how the lead was originally managed.

Now, everyone go sell something.

oxo

Jody