Sales Velocity

How fast revenue moves through your pipeline, combining the number of deals, their average value, your win rate, and the sales cycle length into one figure.

Sales velocity = (opportunities x win rate x deal value) / sales cycle length

Why it matters

Sales velocity shows which lever, more deals, bigger deals, higher win rate, or faster cycles, will grow revenue fastest. It turns a vague sense of sales health into something you can optimize.

For example

With 50 open deals, a 20 percent win rate, a 2 lakh average deal, and a 60-day cycle, sales velocity works out to about 33,000 rupees of revenue per day.

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