{"id":105,"date":"2011-02-10T13:54:10","date_gmt":"2011-02-10T13:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/salesjumpstart.net\/blog\/?p=105"},"modified":"2011-02-10T13:58:49","modified_gmt":"2011-02-10T13:58:49","slug":"sales-training-in-denver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salesjumpstart.net\/blog\/2011\/02\/10\/sales-training-in-denver\/","title":{"rendered":"Sales Training in Denver"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"zemanta-img\" style=\"margin: 1em; display: block;\">\n<figure style=\"width: 180px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Macsales.svg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" title=\"Mac portable sales chart\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/e\/eb\/Macsales.svg\/300px-Macsales.svg.png\" alt=\"Mac portable sales chart\" width=\"180\" height=\"112\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image via Wikipedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>When you talk to business coaches or sales managers about increasing sales, you will generally see a formula like the one that follows<\/p>\n<p>Leads<\/p>\n<p>x Conversions<\/p>\n<p>x Average Ticket<\/p>\n<p>x Number of purchases by customer<\/p>\n<p>Gross<\/p>\n<p>x Margin<\/p>\n<p>And that makes a great deal of sense.\u00a0 What is interesting is in almost every case the company wants to start by increasing the number of leads to get to a better margin. When in fact, the fastest way to increase your <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Revenue\" rel=\"wikinvest\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wikinvest.com\/metric\/Revenue\">revenue<\/a> is to<\/p>\n<p>increase your <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Conversion rate\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Conversion_rate\">conversion rate<\/a> (closing percentage). Not only is it faster,\u00a0 it also costs a lot less money, and can be a one day fix.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a good <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/video\/video.php?v=425307179477&amp;oid=51023034308&amp;comments&amp;ref=mf\" target=\"_blank\">video by Brad Sugars <\/a>on what ActionCoach calls the 5 ways. He does a great job of explaining how working with those 5 numbers can massively increase your revenues.\u00a0 In his example he talks about increasing leads and conversions 10%.\u00a0 In our experience many of our clients see a 50% to 100% closing percentage increase. ( From 25%\u00a0 to over 50%\u00a0 as an example).<\/p>\n<p>I will be following this up with information about specific how you can have a higher closing and conversion percentage in blogs next week.\u00a0 We call it a conversion meter&#8230;. and it will tell you how much opportunity you have to improve!<\/p>\n<p>As for more leads&#8230;..\u00a0 SEO in Denver works very well\u00a0 for that.\u00a0 See more about us on our<a href=\"http:\/\/www.salesjumpstart.net\" target=\"_self\"> main site.<\/a><\/p>\n<form name=\"s2form\" method=\"post\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"ip\" value=\"216.73.216.147\" \/><span style=\"display:none !important\"><label for=\"firstname\">Leave This Blank:<\/label><input type=\"text\" id=\"firstname\" name=\"firstname\" \/><label for=\"lastname\">Leave This Blank Too:<\/label><input type=\"text\" id=\"lastname\" name=\"lastname\" \/><label for=\"uri\">Do Not Change This:<\/label><input type=\"text\" id=\"uri\" name=\"uri\" value=\"http:\/\/\" \/><\/span><p><label for=\"s2email\">Your email:<\/label><br><input type=\"email\" name=\"email\" id=\"s2email\" value=\"Enter email address...\" size=\"20\" onfocus=\"if (this.value === 'Enter email address...') {this.value = '';}\" onblur=\"if (this.value === '') {this.value = 'Enter email address...';}\" \/><\/p><p><input type=\"submit\" name=\"subscribe\" value=\"Subscribe\" \/>&nbsp;<input type=\"submit\" name=\"unsubscribe\" value=\"Unsubscribe\" \/><\/p><\/form>\r\n\n<h6 class=\"zemanta-related-title\" style=\"font-size: 1em;\">Related articles<\/h6>\n<ul class=\"zemanta-article-ul\">\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkup.waldenu.edu\/sales-and-marketing\/sales-strategies\/item\/11870-about-sales-techniques&amp;sa=U&amp;ei=DIFPTdSDIcT7lwf4kpgt&amp;ved=0CK0BEBYwSjjYBA&amp;usg=AFQjCNH0IxQq9EaqmDteo8xKdIYs9vl1Jw\">About Sales Techniques<\/a> (thinkup.waldenu.edu)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: medium none; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=133c59d5-4111-4dc8-9684-2c0f78489a8a\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tweetthis\" style=\"text-align:left;\"><p> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"tt\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Sales+Training+in+Denver+http%3A%2F%2Fsalesjumpstart.net%2Fblog%2F%3Fp%3D105\" title=\"Post to Twitter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"nothumb\" src=\"http:\/\/salesjumpstart.net\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/tweet-this\/icons\/en\/twitter\/tt-twitter.png\" alt=\"Post to Twitter\" \/><\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"tt\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Sales+Training+in+Denver+http%3A%2F%2Fsalesjumpstart.net%2Fblog%2F%3Fp%3D105\" title=\"Post to Twitter\">Tweet This Post<\/a><\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you talk to business coaches or sales managers about increasing sales, you will generally see a formula like the one that follows<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5,8],"tags":[29,30],"class_list":["post-105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marketing","category-sales","category-seo","tag-conversion-rate","tag-lead-generation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salesjumpstart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/salesjumpstart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/salesjumpstart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salesjumpstart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salesjumpstart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/salesjumpstart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salesjumpstart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salesjumpstart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salesjumpstart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}