"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."

— Will Rogers

Activity is the key to successful sales careers because selling is a numbers game, and the Law of Large Numbers is strictly enforced! If you've established business goals, you can determine how much sales activity will be needed to meet them. And, if you do enough of the right sales activities, the results will take care of themselves.

Sales activity is usually expressed and measured in terms of ratios, beginning with the number of prospects you need. You should know how many prospects must enter the sales cycle at one end to generate a sufficient number of sales to meet your production and income goals at the other.

If that sounds like a funnel, it looks like one, too! See the illustration below.

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