Sales Benchmarks

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    How a Structured Sales Process Benefits Your Clients and Your Company

    Richard Steven describes how using your production schedule as inspiration to create a sales schedule keeps clients and your company on track.

     
  • Benchmark: The Gift

    You can recapture lost time by improving lead quality and close rate. It’s easy, and it’s free.

     
  • Taking Charge: Template for an Individual Sales Plan for Sales Reps

    College City Design-Build creates goals for each salesperson and holds its salespeople accountable for achieving those goals.

     
  • Top Remodelers Reveal Their Year-Ahead Budget Changes

    Which expenses do you expect to change most from 2008, and how will you offset them?

     
  • 2007 Business Benchmarking Survey

    How do remodelers measure their companies' financial performance?

     
  • Benchmarking your sales process

    Sales are the fuel of your company. Benchmarking your sales process can help you fine-tune your fuel efficiency. Sales process metrics are especially helpful for full-service remodeling companies because they have a unique sales process.

     
  • Big50 objectively evaluated

    Every year since 1986, we have devoted this issue to profiles of the Big50 -- owners of successful, growing remodeling companies of various sizes that are among the best in America. To select the Big50, we measure hundreds of candidates against an array of objective benchmarks, looking for those...

     
  • Ten Most Common Sales Mistakes

    Learning takes place in many ways. Most often, we introduce something new or we learn by imitating a best practice, step-by-step. Sometimes, however, we can make the most progress just by learning to avoid mistakes. That's especially true when it comes to sales performance.

     
  • Communicating your payment schedule

    Some potential customers need to hear about the payment schedule information at our initial meeting. However, we usually discuss the payment schedule after we have gone over the base bid and described what the next steps or processes with our firm will be.

     
  • Be careful with costs

    A critical benchmark of good financial health is keeping your actual job costs within 2% of projected job costs. This requires the close cooperation of all departments and the willingness to follow these essential guidelines: