10 Freaky Facts for Kick Ass Friday

Maintaining your focus on your job on Friday is critical. Let these 10 bits of information keep you focused on why your job is important to you and your organization especially on the day most people want to start the weekend early.

1. 24% of all newly hired sales associates will not prospect -- ever! Improve your hiring profile.

2. 45% of all newly hired sales associates will not close a sale -- ever! Leave the closing to the experts.

3. 79% of all leads generated at a trade show are never followed up.

4. 82% of all homeowners can't tell you the name of their Realtor if they bought their home more than two years ago. How lasting is your customer impression?

5. With the economy on life support, many health professionals are worried that even more folks will put on "recession pounds." How is your exercise program coming along?

6. 90 per cent of businesses that lose data from a disaster are forced to close within two years of the disaster. How effective is your disaster recovery program?

7. If your household income was $150,000 or higher last year, you were in the top 5%.

8. Through our social training we have allowed interruptions to eat up 2.1 hours of our day (28% of the average workday.)

9. Spam accounts for 14.5 billion messages globally per day. In other words, spam makes up 45% of all emails.

10. Over 141 million cans of SPAM are sold worldwide each year. If you pay too much attention to socializing and email spam, you may find yourself dining on more of this SPAM.

Instead of falling into the common trap of coasting into the weekend, why not Kick Ass today.