3.1 months. That’s the average sales ramp up time, according to research by The Bridge Group. It may not sound like much time, but when you consider that SDRs only remain in their role for an average of 1.8 years and that the median turnover rate is 20%, 3.1 months is a very long time […]

What is a Sales Quota? Simply put, a sales quota is a specific target that sales reps need to hit within a given amount of time. Quotas are nearly always numerical, in that they must be a certain dollar amount of contracts signed, revenue generated, or count of goods sold. Sales reps, sales managers, and […]

On Thursday, June 18, Join Revenue.io’s CEO Howard Brown, as well as the host of The Sales Enablement Podcast, Andy Paul for their session at the Tenbound Virtual Sales Development Conference. The talk, titled The New Sales Enablement Formula: Empowering SDRs to Ramp Faster and Sell More will feature new data about how to ramp […]

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” That’s one my favorite quotes from Winston Churchill. It says it all about the challenges of being in sales. You can’t win them all. Hot streaks don’t last forever. Nor do your dry spells. If you’ve been in sales […]

Assuming that sales quotas are based on viable forecasting data, they can be an excellent way to motivate reps to always perform at their best. However, according to a CSO Insights Study, less than two-thirds of sales reps met quota in 2012. What’s more, less than 57% of companies hit their revenue targets. Houston, we […]