Sales Metrics for BDRs and Account Executives
Monitoring the right sales metrics is vital for your sales team’s performance and development. Tracking the wrong metrics, meanwhile, can be distracting at best and detrimental at worst. So which should you be focusing on?
We asked Emmanuelle Skala, VP of Sales at Influitive, to share the metrics she looks at for both business development reps (BDRs) and account executives (AEs).
Sales Metrics for BDRs and Account Executives
Key Takeaways
- Keep it simple. Measure BDRs on SQOs (Sales Qualified Opportunities). While it often pays to keep things basic, beyond this obvious metric Skala also recommends diving into leading indicators that can give you a better understanding of which reps are excelling and which ones need help before it’s too late. For example: knowing that in order to get x number of meetings, BDRs need to have a certain number of connects, dials, touches, etc.
- For AEs, it’s all about pipeline. It starts with how many new opportunities are getting added into the pipeline every week, but in addition to the quantity of the pipeline, Skala also recommends analyzing the distribution and conversion.
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