Your Sales Problem Often Isn't a Sales Problem

Your revenue is down and everyone's saying "we need more leads." When revenue is falling, the natural instinct is to push harder on sales...but what if the problem lies in operations?Content Breakdown:0:01 - The Operations Problem disguised as a Sales Problem

0:18 - In this episode

0:50 - Welcome to #AppliedStuff

1:18 - WHY revenue drops get blamed on sales by default

2:04 - Example: Industrial Equipment Company losing revenue with a healthy pipeline

3:06 - The Organizational Trap: why it's easier to blame sales

3:33 - The 3 places where operations hides behind sales

3:40 - Fulfillment / Delivery & Service

4:04 - In simple terms (Fulfillment / Delivery & Service)

4:21 - E-commerce example: when delivery and returns destroy repeat purchases

5:37 - Capacity / Workload Constraints

5:50 - In simple words (Capacity / Workload Constraints)

6:14 - Kitchen example: 100 Hungry Clients

6:53 - Operating Costs that Make Selling more Unprofitable

7:29 - The $50 Product Example: how a 15% discount can erase your margin

8:10 - Why Promotions Aren't always Bad - but you need the full economics

8:37 - The Reverse-Diagnosis Method: working backwards to find the real bottleneck

9:03 - Step 1: check Confirmed Orders & Bookings

9:22 - Step 2: check Fulfillment & Retention

10:08 - Step 3: check Capacity & Workload

10:33 - Step 4: check Cash Conversion

10:53 - Step 5: the Sales Process

11:40 - The Most Expensive Mistake in Business is not a bad quarter - it's...

12:24 - Important Caveats: when this framework does and doesn't apply

14:05 - Bottomline

15:12 - Disclaimer

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