Sales – What the Data Tells Us – The Series

Is there data which actually illustrates and supports what drives sales performance, hiring great salespeople, and developing salespeople?  Is it meaningful?  If the data is compelling, would you modify your views, beliefs, practices and behaviors?

I’ve written a number of articles based on my research, our data from assessing 2,086,251 salespeople, statistics and/or pure science.  Some of the articles pertain to sales performance, while others are based on the hundreds of thousands of salespeople whom we have assessed.

This article series is called Sales – What the Data Tells UsWhile some of the articles simply report the research and/or data, others share either my insights about the data or provide data to support my insights.  Here are the articles:

Finally!  Science Reveals the Actual Impact of Sales Coaching 

Why it is so Difficult to Compare Sales Effectiveness from One Salesperson to Another

New Data Reveals Interesting Differences in Salespeople’s Ability to Work From Home

Why the Future of Selling Won’t Resemble the Past 

3 Steps You Must Take Today to Save Your Company From This Economic Downturn 

New Data Reveals a Finding That Correlates to Sales Success

Is Your Sales Force More Like a Dunkin’, Starbucks or Panera Drive Thru?

The Science Behind One Company’s Top Sales Performers and Why They’re So Much Better

The Deal Breaker That Prevents you From Hiring a Great Salesperson

An Inside Look at Why 3 Good Salespeople Failed and 3 So-So Salespeople Succeeded

Salespeople in Small Companies are 43% Better at This and Other Salesenomics Insights

Good Sales Recruiting is Like Selecting Movies and TV Shows

New Data Reveals a Magical New Score for Sales Effectiveness

A Tale of 3 Squirrels and Their Human Counterparts in Sales

Why You Will Finally Pay the Price of Not Selling Value

How Much Has Video Impacted the Way We Sell?

Good Bob, Bad Bob, The Stockdale Paradox and Sales Success

Data Shows Sales Commitment and Motivation Changed During Quarantine

FOX News and CNN Can Help You Conduct Better Sales Opportunity Reviews

Data – Top Salespeople are 631% More Effective at This Than Weak Salespeople (The Bob Chronicles Part 3)

Data Shows Your Sales Team is No Different Than Your Lawn

Salespeople in Small Companies are 43% Better at This and Other Salesenomics  Insights

Data Shows Commitment and Motivation Changed During the Pandemic

New Data Reveals Interesting Differences in Salespeople’s Ability to Work from Home

How Much Has Video Impacted the Way We Sell?

Companies Surprised by Remote Selling Challenges

New Data – Salespeople are a Disaster When it Comes to Coaching 

The Correlation Between Sales Process, Sales Milestones and Sales Success

New Data Shows an Overlooked Finding Correlates to Sales Success

Senate Confirmation Hearings Show us What Salespeople Do Wrong Every Day 

The New 21 Sales Core Competencies for 2020 and Beyond 

Masks and Sales Assessments – You Lose a Little Freedom and Control for Safety and Confidence

Why You Will Finally Pay the Price of Not Selling Value

New Data Reveals a Finding that Correlates to Sales Success

The Science Behind One Company’s Top Sales Performers and Why They’re So Much Better

An Inside Look at Why 3 Good Salespeople Failed and 3 So-So Salespeople Succeeded

New Data Reveals a Magical New Score for Sales Effectiveness

A Tale of 3 Squirrels and Their Human Counterparts in Sales

Sales Process and Why So Many Salespeople Lose Their Way

New Data Shows That Top Salespeople are 2800% Better at Disrupting the Flow

Change in Approach Leads to 304% Increase in Sales Effectiveness

How Big of a Role Does Age Play in Sales Effectiveness?

How All Those Trucks on the Road Can Help You Stop Discounting

The Best Salespeople are 791% Better at This Than Weak Salespeople

The Best Salespeople are 2733% More Likely to Have This Than the Worst Salespeople

How to Transform Your Sales Pipeline Today

Your Last Chance to Make a Good First Impression

How Top Salespeople Anticipate and Manage Resistance

The New Salesenomics

The 21-Day Solution for the Toughest Sales Weaknesses

Why Coaching Causes Some Sales Managers to Hold On for Dear Life

Great News! The Latest Data Shows That Salespeople are Improving

Top 13 Requirements to Help You Soar as a Sales Manager

The Top 8 Requirements for Becoming a Great Salesperson

Popularity Polls are Just Like Sales Management Tracking Metrics!

Why are Half of All Sales Reps Still Missing Quota in a Booming US Economy?

Data Shows That Only 14% are Qualified for the Easiest Selling Roles

Last Day Madness on the Sales Force – That’s One Kind of Urgency

Examples of How Salespeople Lose Credibility with Their Prospects

Golden Nuggets from the CSO Insights 2018 Sales Talent Study

New Data Shows that You Can Double Revenue by Overcoming This One Sales Weakness

Salespeople With This Weakness Score 47% Worse at Reaching Decision Makers

Which 4 Sales Competencies Best Differentiate Top from Bottom Salespeople?

Where Can You Find the Best Salespeople?

The Top 12 Factors that Cause Delayed Closings and What to Do About Them

Better Than New Salespeople

Data Shows Most Salespeople are Dinosaurs When it Comes to Social Selling

Data Shows 1st Year Sales Improvement of 51% in this Competency

Are Millennials Who Enter Sales Better or Worse Than the Rest of the Sales Population?

The Official 2017 List of 21 Sales Core Competencies

Are Millennials Who Enter Sales Better or Worse Than the Rest of the Sales Population?

HBR or OMG – Whose Data Really Differentiates the Top from Bottom Salespeople?

Those Who Follow Sales Best Practices Don’t Necessarily Become Top Performers

What Percentage of New Salespeople Effectively Reach Decision Makers?

Surprising New Data Busts the Myths about Relationship Selling and Social Selling

New Analysis Shows the 5 Biggest Gaps Between Top and Bottom Sales Performers

The One Sales Data Point that Varies Wildly

What Percentage of New Salespeople Reach Decision Makers?

Surprising New Data on Salespeople Busts the Myths about Relationship Selling and Social Selling

Big Data and Big Lies Have Arrived in the Sales Training and Assessment Space

What Do You Blame When Salespeople Don’t Schedule Enough New Meetings?

Breaking News – More Salespeople Suck Than Ever Before (and Why)

Can the Lack Commitment to Sales Success Finding be Wrong?

Can the Worst Salespeople be Saved?

Beach Ball of Death Predicts Lack of Sales Growth

Rebuttal to What Elite Salespeople Do Differently

Science and the Length of Your Sales Cycle

Validation of the Validation of the Sales Assessment

Presidents & CEO’s: 4 Out of 5 Sales Managers Are Ineffective!

The Real Problem with the Sales Profession and Sales Leadership

Are Sales and Sales Management Candidates Getting Worse?

Sales Excellence Studies Propagate Mediocrity

Top 5 Insights From Latest Sales Organization Studies

Dan Pink Hits and Then Misses the New Key to Sales Performance

Another HBR Article on Sales Leaves Me with Mixed Feelings

Are (Lack of) Results Due to the Salesperson or the Company?

When are Salespeople Too Old to Sell Effectively? 10 Conditions

Getting Reluctant Salespeople to Fill Their Empty Pipelines

The 5 Keys to Effective Sales Coaching and Results

Why Do So Many Salespeople Fail to Make Quota?

Why Most Companies are Struggling to Grow Revenue

Sales Leaders Got These Issues All Wrong

Does Your Sales Force Look Like This?

Should You Restage Your Sales Pipeline?

Another Sales Assessment Takes on OMG – What Does it Reveal?

Are Women in Sales Less Trainable?

The Sales Assessment Client Who Didn’t Renew after All These Years

Why Young Male Salespeople are at a Disadvantage

The Latest Astonishing Findings About Sales Managers

Revealing Study of Salespeople Makes News at HBR

Most Salespeople Suck at Selling

Sales Effectiveness – IDC and CEB Draw Conflicting Conclusions

How Many Salespeople Made Quota in 2010?