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To help you get started, we\u2019ve put together 7 cold calling metrics here<\/strong> that\u2019ll help your team improve their performance and book more meetings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Before getting there, let\u2019s first understand some basics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Cold calling metrics are data points that you can use to measure the effectiveness<\/strong> of the cold calling activities<\/a> executed by your SDRs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Every organization fixes an annual revenue goal each year. To hit that goal, you as the sales manager will typically fix monthly revenue goals for your sales team. This would translate to how many closed-won deals and sales opportunities you need in your sales pipeline every month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For example,<\/strong> if your annual revenue goal is $1 million and your average deal size is $5,000:<\/p>\n\n\n\n By tracking and analyzing these cold calling metrics, you can check whether each SDR on your sales team is poised to hit the target of meetings booked and pipeline generated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In other words, tracking these cold calling metrics will give you a data-driven approach to:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n As a sales manager, you need to determine which metrics will help you measure your cold calling success and the steps you need to take for your team to get there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Broadly speaking, there are 2 different types of cold calling metrics<\/strong> that you should be tracking: Output metrics and input metrics. Let\u2019s see each of these in detail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Output metrics help you final outcomes of your cold calling campaign<\/strong> that you want to achieve. Sales managers track output metrics to ensure their entire team is on the right path to meeting their goals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The output goals you need to track to measure the success rate of your cold calling strategy are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n These help you measure the daily or weekly sales activities<\/strong> that will get your team closer to meeting your monthly output metrics. In cold calling outreach, the input metrics you\u2019ll need to track include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Input metrics helps you track daily activities of your reps and give pointers as and when issues prop up, and implement necessary changes so that your team is on track to hit their output metrics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Now, let\u2019s dive deeper into each of these 7 cold calling metrics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Number of meetings booked refers to the number of opportunities generated by each of your SDR<\/strong> in a specific timeframe (month or quarter) that gets handed over to the account executives, who will then take the deals to closure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Why track this metric:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Example:<\/strong> Based on our previous example, if you need to book at least 167 meetings every month and you have 10 SDRs in your team, you can divide the number of meetings among your sales representatives based on their previous performance and fix the individual targets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A quality conversation is a connected call that lasts for more than a minute<\/strong> and where at least one piece of qualifying information is learned. This happens when the prospect has a back-and-forth conversation with the rep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Why track it:<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n Research shows<\/a> successful cold calls last almost twice as long as unsuccessful cold calls<\/strong>. So, tracking how many quality conversations your SDR has in a given timeframe (month or quarter) helps you understand how well your reps are engaging the prospects during the call.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n Example:<\/strong> If an SDR in your sales team has 20 meetings to book in a month, they might need to have at least 200 quality conversations every month (assuming that 10% of prospects who have quality conversations agree to hop on a meeting with you).<\/p>\n\n\n\n The conversation-to-meeting rate refers to the ratio of the total number of meetings booked by your team to the total number of quality conversations they\u2019ve had in the given timeframe (typically, a month).<\/p>\n\n\n\n How to calculate it:<\/strong> (Meetings booked per month\/Quality conversations per month) x 100<\/p>\n\n\n\n Example:<\/strong> In a given month, if your SDRs have booked 13 meetings in total and the quality conversations your team had was 130, the conversation-to-meeting rate will be 10%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Why track it:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The conversation-to-meeting rate helps you in benchmarking the performance<\/strong> of your sales team. You can compare your team\u2019s conversation-to-meeting rate with other organizations in your industry or market and with your own past performance. Based on this, you can coach your reps to improve this metric.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n This metric refers to the total number of dials (including unanswered and disconnected calls) made in a specific shorter timeframe,<\/strong> like in an hour or day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Why track it:<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n By tracking the number of dials, you can check if the reps are placing enough calls<\/strong> that could translate into the number of quality conversations, and eventually, meetings booked.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n Example:<\/strong> As per the example we saw earlier, an sales representative needs to book 20 meetings a month and therefore needs to have 200 quality conversations. In this case, they need to make more than 2000 cold calls in a month (as the industry average for call connect rates is 10%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n This means, each SDR should place at least 500 calls in a week, or 100 cold calls in a day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n More than half of your cold calls will go to voicemail. Given that it can take anywhere between 20 to 50 prospecting touches<\/a> to engage a cold prospect who does not know your brand<\/strong>, voicemail can be an important part of your cold calling success.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So, make sure to track the total number of voicemails you\u2019ve left for each of your potential customers in a specific timeframe, as in the number of voicemails left every day\/week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Why track it:<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n Tracking the number of voicemails can help you find patterns in your team\u2019s outreach activities<\/strong> (like how many voicemails it takes to get a callback or timings where chances of hitting voicemail is high). Based on these patterns, you can tweak your cold call outreach strategies<\/a> to see better results.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n Here\u2019s some cold calling statistics<\/a> that should give you pause: 80% of sales require 5 follow-up calls<\/strong> after a meeting, but 44% of sales reps give up after the first follow-up call.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So, keep track of the total number of follow-up calls your reps make for each prospect in a specific timeframe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Example:<\/strong> If you\u2019re running a sales sequence that includes multichannel touches like email and LinkedIn, then your SDRs might need to make 4-5 call attempts per prospect every week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Why track it:<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n Like voicemail, follow-up calls too are crucial for prospects who don\u2019t pick up your call the first time. Tracking this metric helps you to know if your reps are making the required number of follow-up call attempts<\/strong> needed to successfully engage a prospect.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n Finally, for the cold calls that do get connected, it\u2019s important for you to know the call duration per prospect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n How to track it:<\/strong> Calculate the duration of each cold call from the moment it gets connected till the prospect hangs up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Why track it:<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n We at Klenty studied how long cold calls should last<\/a> and found out that the chances of having a positive outcome for cold calls increase almost linearly with time.<\/strong> So, this helps you know if the reps are having quality conversations with prospects, which will ultimately translate into meetings booked.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n According to McKinsey<\/a>, a fifth of your current sales-team functions can be automated. So, to help your SDRs improve your cold calling metrics, you need the right sales automation platform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Presenting Klenty<\/a>, an end-to-end sales engagement platform <\/a>that comes with a sales dialer to automate your dialing process and with conversation intelligence<\/a> to help you enhance your coaching efforts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Take a quick look at how Klenty’s Dialer helps<\/a> you boost your cold calling metrics:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Want to know more about how Klenty can help you track these metrics and execute your best cold calling campaign yet? Book a demo now<\/a> to find out.<\/p>\n\n\n\nWhat Are Cold Calling Metrics?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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