The Performance Blog

Sales growth doesn’t happen by accident. Explore practical insights on sales leadership, strategy, coaching, and performance designed to help leaders and sales professionals build better habits, stronger systems, and more predictable revenue.

Are You Preparing for a Tradeshow or Just Showing Up? Sep 28, 2026

Tradeshows are expensive. Between the booth, travel, materials, and your team’s time, you’re making a real investment before anyone walks onto the sho...

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Sales KPI #5 - Close Ratio - How Often Are You Actually Winning? Sep 25, 2026

Ask 100 sales leaders whether they track win rate or close ratio, and you’ll probably get a pretty even mix.

Then ask those same 100 sales leaders to...

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KPI Series #4: Pipeline Movement - Is Your Pipeline Moving or Just Full? Sep 17, 2026

Some call it pipeline velocity. Others call it pipeline movement.

I like to keep it simple:

When you look at your pipeline, are things actually prog...

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Sales KPIs: #3 Pipeline Creation - Are You Replacing What You Close? Sep 09, 2026

As we continue this series on leading KPIs, I hope you're starting to see that sales really is a framework.

And when one component of that framework ...

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When Is the Right Time to Train Your Sales Team? Sep 02, 2026

 

As a sales leader, I've asked myself this question many times:

When is the right time to deliver sales training?

The funny thing is, there always...

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Will AI Take Over Sales? Sep 02, 2026

As I've connected with sales leaders and business owners over the last year, one question keeps coming up:

"Do you think AI is going to take over sal...

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Sales KPIs: #2 Pipeline Coverage - Do You Have Enough? Sep 01, 2026

As we discussed in KPI Series #1 Leading vs Lagging KPI’s, there are leading KPIs that sometimes get missed or simply don’t get enough attention.

The...

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Sales KPIs: #1 Stop Measuring Only What Already Happened Aug 31, 2026

Lagging vs Leading

The science and data behind sales has always interested me. How do you remove some of the guesswork from sales and create a proces...

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Turn Activity Into Revenue Aug 25, 2026

Salespeople can have incredibly busy days and still finish the week wondering why their pipeline hasn't moved.

Your first react

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