A number of salespeople complain that they never know when it is OK to “shut it off” for the day. When is enough really enough when it comes to lead generation and cold calling?

Envision how much easier your life would be if you were able to determine the precise and measurable actions you need to take on a day-to-day basis for you to reach your yearly revenue goal. Use the following template to create your success formula. You will then be able to determine what number of cold calls to make and the amount of appointments/presentations needed each month, even daily, to achieve your goals, in addition to the time commitment it will take to do so.

Let the numbers in your success formula identify the volume of activities you need to put in your day to day schedule to guarantee selling success. It sure beats scratching your head at the end of every month, wanting to know why you failed to meet your sales quota. Now, you will have a determined formula to follow so that you can acquire the results you want.

    * How many calls do I need to make to generate one potential customer?
    * How many prospects does it take to create one sale?
    * How long will each prospecting or cold-calling effort take?
    * How much time do I need to devote to brand-new business development every day?
    * What number of sales do I need each month to achieve my year-end financial targets?

If you really don’t know the answers to these essential questions, that’s perfectly fine. Because by the close of this article you will.

As you proceed through this formula, you may come across some questions that you do not know the response to. This is perfectly normal, particularly if you are completely new to sales or have never been exposed to these questions. Recognize that if you do not have the answer to some of these questions, it may call for doing some mindful monitoring of your cold-calling efforts before you are able to effectively answer them.

Before you attempt to complete this formula, you need to have a distinct prospecting undertaking in mind. Since each prospecting exercise is going to produce a different number of potential customers within a specific amount of time, you must accordingly create a separate formula for each prospecting undertaking you take on.

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For instance, if you utilize direct mail as a way to create new prospective clients, then step 4 in your formulation may look like this:

“Marketing Efforts: I need to commit $______ per month to create one new qualified potential client.”

The following formula is for your cold-calling initiatives only. Develop a standalone formula for all further prospecting activities.

Finally, please be aware that this formula does not take into account residual income earned from every sale. To make up for this, use the average lifetime value of one customer (excluding any referral business they send you) as the variable for steps 1, 2, and 3 in the formula.

My Formula for Selling Success

1. Average sale in my business is $_____.

2. Percentage of commission/income I am paid per sale is _____%.

3. My average commission/ income per sale is $_____.

4. Prospecting Activity: Cold Calling

It takes _____ (number) cold calls to find one new qualified prospect.

5. I need to present to/meet with _____ (number) potential clients to close one sale. In other words, I typically close/earn the business of _____ out of _____ prospective clients I am in front of. Therefore, my closing percentage is _____%. (Number of sales divided by number of prospective clients you presented to/met with.)

6. My annual income goal is $_____.

7. To attain my goal, I need to generate $_____ in average monthly income. (Yearly income goal step six divided by 12 months.)

8. I require _____ (number) monthly sales to produce $_____ step seven in average monthly income. (Average monthly income step seven divided by average commission/ income per sale step three.)

9. To produce _____ (number) sales monthly step eight, I must present to/meet with _____ (number) new qualified prospective buyers per month. (Number of potential clients needed to close one sale step five multiplied by the number of desired sales per month step eight = number of presentations/meetings with qualified potential customers per month.)

10. To produce _____ (number) new qualified potential clients per month step nine, I must make _____ (number) cold calls per month. (Number of cold calls to find one new prospect step four multiplied by the number of new qualified prospective customers needed per month to produce desired number of monthly sales step nine.)

11. I must make _____ (number) cold calls per week. (Number of calls needed to make per month step ten divided by 4.335 weeks.)

12. To make _____ (number) cold calls per week step eleven, I need to devote _____ (number) hours per week tp cold calling. (Number of cold calls per week step eleven multiplied by the average amount of time per call in minutes divided by 60 = the number of hours needed to devote to cold calling per week.)

Tip from the Sales Coach: Make sure that you account for any additional preparation time prior to each cold call.

13. I need to devote _____ (hours) per day to cold calling. (Number of hours per week devoted to cold calling step twelve divided by number of workdays.)

14. I need to make _____ (number) cold calls per day that will take up _____ (number) hours per day step thirteen. (Number of cold calls per week step eleven divided by number of workdays.)

There are a wide range of tools that boost the performance of your cold calling efforts.  A lot of high volume cold callers use predictive dialers that perform the dialing and then shift live calls to you.  Effeciency of a software like this can help your numbers in  this formula to reach a whole new level.


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