Your busiest month looks like your weakest lead month

When capacity tightens, recorded demand falls, and most businesses read that as the market going quiet rather than the phone going unanswered.

By Steve 5 min read
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A pattern shows up often enough in operating reviews to be worth naming. A business has a hard quarter (full order book, staff at capacity, delivery slipping), and when the numbers come in, enquiry volume is flat or down. The conclusion drawn in the room is that the market softened. The conclusion that fits the mechanism better is that nobody had time to answer the phone. This is not a small measurement quirk. It sits underneath capacity decisions, hiring plans, channel budgets and pricing confidence. And because the missing data…

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