Which sales metrics should I track for my business?

If you run a business or are a Sales Leader in your organization, then you might have come across this question often.

Which Sales metrics should you track may vary depending on the line of business you operate in. Based on your industry vertical, certain sales metrics would be extremely important for you to track while the same metrics might not make any sense for someone in another industry.

Nevertheless, there are certain Sales Metrics that are Industry agnostic and can help you measure sales performance irrespective of the line of business.

Here are the top 5 sales metrics you can track in your business


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1. Conversion Rate

This refers to the number of leads that got converted to successful deal wins. Monitoring this metric will help you to channelize your effort on the leads which have a high probability of conversion so that you can improve your revenue faster.


2. Average Sales Cycle duration

This refers to the average time it takes for your sales team to move a prospect from the opportunity creation stage to final deal closure. Monitoring this metric and aiming it to keep lower helps you to close more sales in a lesser amount of time. If you want, you can go more granular by monitoring the duration of each sales stage so that you get a flag whenever a deal is stuck in a certain stage for longer than usual.


3. Average Deal Value

This measures the average revenue you are bringing with every deal win. Over time, you should try to increase the average deal value and aim to grow the high-value accounts. This can be a powerful level you can use to pull up your revenue with the same amount of effort.


4. Topline & Bottomline Growth

These metrics help you visualize your revenue (Topline) and margin (Bottomline) growth over a period of time say monthly, quarterly or yearly. When you see the growth in numbers, it gives a clear and quantified validation of your growth.


5. Average Customer Lifetime value

This is an often ignored metric and people tend to associate it only with Saas businesses, but this is extremely important for any kind of business. Whenever you notice your average customer lifetime value is dropping then it’s a clear flag that there is something wrong with your offering which is leading to customer churn. This helps you focus on nurturing & retention efforts.


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What is Churn Rate?
If you run a subscription based business where you gain monthly or periodically recurring revenue, Churn Rate is one of the important parameters to consider for forecasting your future revenues. This metric is not just a KPI for Sales & Marketing department but also directly impacts Finance department for their future financial forecasts as well as impacts Operations or Delivery department in order to plan for scaling up or scaling down of existing business operations or infrastructure.
How to Reduce Churn Rate – 3 Legitimate Tips
Heya, in my previous post, we learnt what exactly is Churn Rate. Now you know, that more churn is bad for your business. Let us discuss some cool tips to reduce churn rate in your business.

Reason I titled this post with “Legitimate Tips” is because we would focus on building our fundamentals strong instead of trying out some quick fix leak patching techniques. This would take a bit of longer time, but is worth it in the long run, especially when you look towards sustainably scaling your business in the long term.


Legitimate Tips to reduce churn rate:

Preventing Customer Churn or Exits or Opt-outs

  • Price:

One of the primary reason many customers opt out of your service is because they do not like your price. Remember that nothing is too expensive for a customer if he is made aware of the real value of the product. Hence, work with the customer to make them aware of your product features, functionalities and business benefits so that they gauge the real value of your product or service offering. You may cite the benefits by doing a cost benefits analysis of non-tangible things like Time Value, Quality of your offering, ease of use, Customer Support and assurance being delivered in your offerings, etc.


  • Mis-selling:


Second biggest reason why Customers leave is because after few months they realize that the product is not really meant for their usage or they are not appropriate intended user for the offering. They realize that some sales person did a push sell just to complete their sales quota. In this case it is bound to backfire to your business, since they would opt-out in reasonable amount of time. In this case, try to avoid doing mis-selling or push sales. The world is big enough and hence try to sell to those whom you thing could be interested in your offering or are the right intended users.


  • Customer Success or Engagement

Many Businesses think that once they onboard any customer to sell their subscription based service, their job is done. Chief Marketing Officers should realize that once the sale is done, job is not yet over. The real journey of customer begins from the moment they start using your product or service. Hence it is important that you start engaging with your customers by involving them in regular product update announcements, social media interactions, priority support, training sessions so that they can effectively use your product to realize its true potential benefit.

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