Here are seven questions that quickly show how well you know your business. Each comes with a note on why to ask it and what a good answer looks like. Take the list and start asking.
1. Why did sales drop?
The main question of any business. A bad answer sounds like "seasonality" without a single number. A good answer names three causes with figures: which channel dropped, which manager's conversion fell, what changed in traffic. If such an answer takes more than a day to put together, your data is not connected.
2. Which managers lose leads?
An average across the whole team always lies, so ask by name: who, at which stage, how many deals have been stuck for more than two weeks. A lost lead is money you already paid for advertising and effectively handed to a competitor.
3. Which channel brought the most profit?
This is about profit, not clicks and not the number of leads. A channel with cheap leads often brings clients who never pay. The answer has to connect the ad account with real payments. Without that link, you scale your budget blindly.
4. Which deals are stuck?
A stuck deal is money that almost arrived but never got there. Ask for a list: amount, manager, days without movement, reason. And introduce a rule right away: every stuck deal has an owner and a date for the next touch.
5. Where should the next €5,000 go?
This is a filter question. It forces you to compare channels by profit, not by gut feeling. A good answer names a specific channel, the expected effect and the risk. If all you get is silence, the budget is being handed out out of habit.
6. Which clients give the best LTV?
Clients are not all equal. Some buy once and vanish, others come back and bring friends. The answer should show the segments with the highest lifetime value, because that is where marketing should be pointed.
7. What will break next month?
This question looks forward, not back. Overdue tasks, slower replies to leads, a manager whose conversion is sliding: all of this is visible in advance if you watch the dynamics rather than the totals. Whoever notices first fixes it cheaper.
How to ask so you get answers, not brush-offs
There are three rules. First, demand a number, a cause and a source in every answer. Second, set a deadline, because an answer that takes a week has already come too late. Third, ask regularly, not once a quarter. Then the dynamics are visible, and you do not have to guess.
That is exactly how the Second Brain works. You ask a question in plain words in Telegram, and the agent assembles the answer from your CRM, ads, payments and tasks within minutes. The client Korchel gets such answers in 5 minutes instead of several days of manual work.
Case figures come from our own implementations. Your result depends on the quality and completeness of your data.
If this topic is close to you, also take a look at: Why BI reports don't answer the question every executive actually asks and Second Brain vs an in-house analyst.
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