Sales Metrics

Influ2 puts a number on sales and marketing alignment: a 35% hand-off rate

Influ2’s 2025 benchmark ties alignment to a single operational metric: how often ad-engaged contacts actually get a sales touch.

Nearly 3 in 4 companies put RevOps in the C-suite, but 89% still lack goals

Salesloft and Wakefield found 73% of firms now have a C-suite RevOps role. Nearly all see AI ROI, yet strategic mandates and metrics are still muddy.

First-meeting conversion is emerging as the new unit cost in B2B pipeline

AI is making it cheaper to book meetings. The operational bottleneck is converting those meetings into qualified opportunities, and measuring that conversion ra

Demand Gen Report’s 2026 benchmark survey push puts lead SLAs back in the procurement lane for RevOps teams

Demand Gen Report opened its 2026 Demand Gen Benchmark Survey on sales and marketing alignment, spotlighting shared metrics and formal lead SLAs that increasing

First-meeting conversion is emerging as a measurable cost lever in B2B sales, and Revenue Growth Agent wants it on the dashboard

A PR Newswire release points to a simple unit-economics problem: buying more meetings can be wasteful if first-call conversion isn’t tracked and improved.

B2B demand gen leaders are ditching MQL volume for sourced revenue and influenced pipeline in 2026

Demand Gen Report's 2026 benchmark survey shows B2B marketing teams replacing vanity metrics with revenue attribution, AI workflows, and shared sales goals.

Global ecommerce is on track to top $4 trillion, and enterprise operators are still leaving conversion points on the table

Ecommerce is closing in on $4 trillion in global sales, but the real story for enterprise operators is where margin and conversion are being won or lost.

Seismic's benchmark report ties sales enablement directly to win rates, quota attainment, and cycle length

Seismic's Annual Sales Enablement Benchmark Report links enablement strategy to three hard revenue metrics, as Gartner validates the platform's market presence