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The Top-Performing Sales Organization

Discover what separates the best sales organizations from the rest.

What do sales organizations with the highest win rates, revenue growth, and sales goal achievement do differently than the rest? Where do they focus and what factors make the biggest difference for success?

In the Top-Performing Sales Organization research, we set out to answer these questions.

While quite a bit of research has been published on what separates top sellers from the rest, there’s relatively little on what organizations are doing.

We studied 472 sellers and executives representing companies with salesforces ranging in size from 10 to 5,000+. 37% of respondents had less than $50M in revenue, 38% had between $50m and $1B in revenue, and 27% had greater than $1B in revenue. Respondents were located in the Americas, EMEA, and Asia-Pacific, and represented 26 industries.

We analyzed results across the 8 categories of the Sales Performance WheelSM and studied the factors that correlated to higher win rates. We learned that the Top-Performing Sales Organizations, across all industries and company sizes, are strong in similar areas that have great impact on their sales organization’s performance.

Learn What Top Performers Do

Learn What Top Performers Do

Top-Performing sales teams have significantly higher win rates, revenue growth, and sales goal attainment than The Rest. Our research analyzes what Top Performers do differently to achieve this level of success and provides expert commentary and tips.

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Stay Ahead of the Competition

Sales is constantly changing. What worked yesterday may not work today. The RAIN Group Center for Sales Research allows you to stay up-to-date with ongoing fresh research, analyzing the changing buyer landscape and what works today.

Benchmark Your Organization

Benchmark Your Organization

We regularly benchmark sales organizations against our proprietary database of Top Performers. You can learn how you stack up and exactly where your gaps lie. We’ll then build you a plan to become a Top-Performing Organization. Learn more.

Top-Performing Sales Organization Report

Top Performing Sales Organization Benchmark ReportIn our Top-Performing Sales Organization report, we share the results of our research, including:

  • 22 graphs and charts comparing Top-Performing Sales Organizations to The Rest across critical sales topics
  • Recommendations for building out all 8 categories of The Sales Performance WheelSM at your organization
  • Ability to benchmark yourself against research participants using RAIN Group's Sales Organization Maturity ModelSM
  • A better understanding of what you need to do and where you need to focus to improve your overall sales results

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Top Performers Significantly Outperform The Rest

62%

is the average Top Performer opportunity win rate. The Rest achieve only a 40% win rate.

100%

of Top-Performing Organizations meet their annual sales goals vs. just 49% of The Rest.

58%

of Top Performers agree they are able to capture maximum prices, compared to only 41% of The Rest.

Top-Performing Sales Organizations achieve significantly better sales results than The Rest. Our research uncovers exactly what they do to achieve these results and provides tips to help you join their ranks.

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The Sales Performance WheelSM

Learn more about the 8 categories in our framework for sales performance analysis.

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The Top-Performing Sales Organization Benchmark Report

The Top-Performing Sales Organization Benchmark Report

Discover the areas that set Top Performers apart from The Rest, allowing them to achieve higher win rates, capture maximum prices, and beat annual sales goals.

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