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The minimum number of attempts to contact a web lead you have the phone number for, is three times a day for 5 to 6 days. all, you WILL increase your sales. Success lies in: • Making the commitment to set your budget and target • Setting your numbers and percentages as benchmarks • Choosing what you will measure daily/weekly/month/quarterly • Teaching your people how to use KPIs (don’t assume they know how) • Ensuring your leaders are trained so they know what to do in the event of a poor KPI Remember, if you are going to measure KPIs: • • Make sure your team have been trained properly to make sales successfully. In other words they’ve been trained for phone and belly- to-belly sales processes. Make sure your team can demonstrate they know how to perform the necessary skills to create value and make sales • proficiently. edge, but most of them don’t find it. You then need ongoing (monthly or weekly) training to ensure they are continuously refining and implementing the skills. You cannot expect to achieve great KPIs if they are not trained adequately and consistently. Rest assured, if you measure your KPIs on a regular basis and make sure it’s a fun process, and you have coaching strategies in place for if someone is failing, you WILL increase your sales. • Revisit basic sales training once or twice a year. Your team will not remember the simple things without doing this, and the simple things are often barriers to optimal success. • Always acknowledge good performance in your team. Motivate by positive reinforcement. KPIs are a salespersons and a manager’s scorecard; it shows exactly how successful their performance is at any given point in time. If you have people failing, you must have a process in place to deal with this. KPIs should be considered an opportunity to coach, train and reinforce skills and processes with your team. Join Steve’s (Dr J’s) FB Group Free, for live weekly coaching. Inside the closed group you will have access to the excel KPI’s files which have been formulated so you can easily use your KPI’s and Plan For Income Days everyday. The groups name is The Impact Sales Success Club. Steve Jensen is the founder and Managing Director of Impact Training Corporation, a company specialising in sales, sales management and communication. If you would like to like to speak to Steve please book in your preferred time in his calendar. Alternatively, call Steve on 0411 21 22 00 or visit the website for more information: - www.impact-training.net. Most clubs and businesses are looking for that one key thing that will give them the WHAT’S NEW IN FITNESS - AUTUMN 2018 31