By Andrew Ford (SalesCoPilot.com)
In the SME market today it takes between 6 and 12 months to ramp up a salesperson, and then the average tenure of that salesperson is only 2.5 years. This means many SME’s are getting a really low ROI on their sales team investments.
Ask yourself these questions in relation to your business.
What is the average tenure of a salesperson on your team today?
How about the ramp up time for a new salesperson to hit target productivity?
What is the average contribution margin of your salespeople?
Calculating the real impact of a long ramp up and short tenure on sales ROI is a very important exercise for your business… getting it right demands an investment…
Go to Sales CoPilot to continue reading about the 3 ROI Numbers that are killing your business.
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