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How to Identify Revenue Leaks
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Direct answer
Identify revenue leaks by walking the customer journey stage by stage and measuring what enters and exits each stage. Where the exit count is materially lower than the entry count without a deliberate decision, there is a leak. The largest leaks are usually in capture, follow-up and reactivation.
Key takeaways
- Measure entry and exit at every stage.
- Unrecorded inquiries are invisible leaks.
- Aging identifies leaks that counts alone miss.
- Size the leak before designing the fix.
The stage walk
Inquiries received, inquiries recorded, qualified, quoted, decided, won, delivered, retained, repeated. Counting honestly at each step usually produces at least one number nobody expected.
Sizing before fixing
A leak's size determines its priority. Sizing requires the average value and volume at that stage, which is also the data needed for any responsible ROI modelling later.
First draft written from the firm's methodology. No third-party statistics, benchmarks or client results are cited. Requires expert review and source attachment before publication.