TLDR: When your business is not meeting sales targets, how do you know whether your sales team is on the right track? Data-driven selling can be a powerful tool for diagnosing and improving sales productivity issues. It is founded on the following four insights: (1) sales success is highly correlated to the right sales activities with the right frequency; (2) there is a real and measurable point of diminishing returns for any sales activity; (3) you can develop high quality expectations for new and retrained sales personnel pertaining to sales production over time; and (4) data infrastructure and dashboards are key to sales managing themselves and to management managing sales.
