Yesterday’s REsimpli Mastermind featured Josh (and a planned appearance by Tiffany) sharing their six-step KPI Audit Framework designed to stop deal leakage, diagnose exactly what’s broken in your acquisitions process, and fix it fast. Josh walked the group through why guessing and “hustle harder” thinking fails, how to measure the funnel with meaningful KPIs, how to run targeted audits, and a repeatable coaching workflow that restored conversions across their team in days. Below is a recap of the major topics and tactical takeaways.
Challenge: When contract volume drops, owners and teams immediately blame the market, the leads, or the person on the phones. That guessing wastes time and marketing dollars.
Advice:
Stop blaming and start measuring. If your business only runs when you’re in it, it’s not a business — it’s a job. Track conversions through each stage of your acquisitions funnel so you know exactly where the leak is.
Key Insight:
Nine times out of ten the issue is the process (onboarding, training, audits, KPI tracking), not the market or the lead source.
Challenge: Many teams “wing it” — no recipe, no standards — producing wildly inconsistent results person-to-person and month-to-month.
Advice:
Treat sales like a recipe. Build a repeatable, check-the-box process (scripts, expectations, ramp timeline) and train reps to follow it. Measure conversions and coach against the recipe.
Key Insight:
Consistency beats hustle. With a consistent recipe you remove randomness and predictable results follow.
Challenge: Teams either don’t track KPIs or track them without knowing what to do next.
Advice:
Follow TIF:
Key Insight:
A scorecard tells you where to audit so you can stop guessing and start solving.
Challenge: Deals leak at predictable places — without visibility you miss which conversion is failing.
Advice:
Track and benchmark conversions at each step: Marketing spend → Leads → Dials → Connections → Qualified (raised hand) → Completed appointments → Offers → Contracts. If a conversion slips, that KPI directs your audit.
Common red flags and diagnostics by stage:
Challenge: Relying on simplistic formulas (e.g., ARV × .7 − repairs) leaves money on the table or wrongly kills deals.
Advice:
Understand multiple buyer types and local market nuances. Don’t auto-kill deals that don’t fit a single formula; consult dispo/buyers and consider exits (retail sale, flip, rental, wholesale, agent sale). Remove geographic ignorance with simple maps/criteria for where reps can underwrite.
Key Insight:
Good underwriting is contextual — the same property can be a win for one exit/buyer type and a pass for another.
Challenge: New hires get thrown into the fire and bad habits form; without call reviews you have no film to coach from.
Advice:
Create clear 30/60/90 ramp expectations, ongoing weekly training to prevent drift, and a disciplined call-audit process (listen, check-the-box, diagnose). Use a scorecard to pull the exact calls to audit.
Key Insight:
Frequent, structured coaching beats ad-hoc feedback.
Key Insight:
Pinpointing and coaching one behavioral gap can recover significant revenue quickly.
Challenge: Owners think they need a huge team to scale contract volume.
Advice:
A lean, well-organized team + systems works: CEO/COO, a VA for KPI tracking & marketing, sales manager, two closers, two follow-up specialists (lead managers), a dispo person, and an operations coordinator can handle high contract volume when process is tight.
Key Insight:
Systems and role clarity beat big headcount.
Key Insight:
Use tools to track; use coaching/implementation to change behavior and execute fixes.
If you missed it: the acquisition scorecard and slide deck were shared during the call (links posted in chat) and Josh invited attendees to reach out to the Results Driven team for implementation help or fractional services.