The 40% Sales Leakage You're Losing Before the Sale Even Starts
There's a problem most companies are diagnosing completely wrong. When revenue misses projections, the default response is predictable: the sales team needs better training, the marketing message needs work, or the product needs repositioning. Leadership starts dissecting why prospects chose another vendor, what features were missing, what objections weren't handled well enough. After working with over 70 agencies and building marketing systems for founders running $3-5M companies, I've seen a pattern that most leadership teams miss entirely: about 40% of your sales loss isn't happening in the sales process at all. It's happening in the handoff. The Difference Between Sales Loss and Sales Leakage There's a distinction here that changes how you should be allocating resources, so let me be specific about it. A real sales loss is going head-to-head with a competitor and not winning because you didn't put on the hook what the fish wanted to eat. You presented. ...