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How often should you audit your sales data and why?

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Sales data is the lifeblood of any sales operation. It tells you how your team is performing, where your opportunities are, and what your customers want. But if your sales data is inaccurate, outdated, or incomplete, you could be making costly mistakes and missing out on revenue. That's why you need to audit your sales data regularly and ensure its quality and integrity. In this article, we'll explain how often you should audit your sales data and why, and what steps you can take to make the process easier and more effective.

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1 What is a sales data audit?

A sales data audit is a systematic review of your sales data to check its accuracy, completeness, consistency, and relevance. It involves identifying and correcting any errors, gaps, duplicates, or inconsistencies in your data, as well as verifying that your data sources, systems, and processes are aligned and compliant. A sales data audit can help you improve your data quality, enhance your reporting and analysis, and optimize your sales performance and strategy.

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We have found at AO that not only is the timely review of sales data necessary, but in some cases, redundant tracking can help to identify data gaps and subsequently highlight features within our CRM that we are not utilizing.

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2 Why should you audit your sales data?

Auditing your sales data can bring many advantages to your sales operation, including better decision making and forecasting, improved customer satisfaction and retention, and reduced costs and risks. Accurate and reliable data helps you make informed decisions about your sales pipeline, revenue, and growth. Having complete and relevant data allows you to understand your customers better and customize your offers, messages, and service to their needs and preferences. Consistent and compliant data also prevents you from wasting time and money on fixing errors, resolving disputes, or dealing with penalties or lawsuits due to data breaches or violations.

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If you aren't auditing your sales data, you may have problems brewing and getting bigger without even knowing it. For example, if your salespeople are putting prospects into the wrong pipeline stage, management will be making cash flow projections on data that isn't accurate. Never a good situation.

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3 How often should you audit your sales data?

When it comes to how often you should audit your sales data, there is no one-size-fits-all answer. It depends on various factors, such as the size and complexity of your sales operation, the quality and reliability of your data sources, and the dynamics and volatility of your market. As a general rule of thumb, you should audit your sales data at least annually or whenever you make significant changes to your data sources, systems, or processes. Depending on your specific needs and goals, however, you may want to audit your sales data more frequently - such as quarterly, monthly, or weekly.

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I’ve always implemented a weekly, daily, quarterly model with different types of audits for each flow. This ensure you catch anomalies earlier (weekly), opportunities for improvement (monthly) and trends (quarterly). And then a full audit annually.

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4 How to conduct a sales data audit?

Conducting a sales data audit can be a challenging and time-intensive endeavor, but it doesn't have to be. To make the process easier and more effective, you should first define your objectives and scope, establish criteria and standards, collect and analyze your sales data, and report and communicate your findings and recommendations. You should consider what you are trying to achieve with the audit, what aspects of your sales data to focus on, what data sources to include or exclude, the quality and integrity requirements for your sales data, how to measure and evaluate against these requirements, best practices for data management, how to access and extract from sources and systems, how to organize and store for analysis, how to identify and correct errors or inconsistencies in the data, how to present results and insights, how to prioritize actions or improvements based on the audit, and how to monitor the impact of the audit.

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5 How to automate and streamline your sales data audit?

Manually conducting a sales data audit can be effective, but also tedious and prone to human error. To automate and streamline the process, consider using data integration, quality, and analysis tools. Data integration tools can help you connect and consolidate data from different sources and systems, while data quality tools can check and validate data for accuracy, completeness, and compliance. Data analysis tools can help you explore and visualize your data for patterns, trends, and insights. By using these tools, you can save time and effort, reduce errors and risks, and improve the quality and value of your sales data.

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