

Metrics That Matter: Creating Sales KPIs for Early Stage (Community Workshop)
Metrics That Matter: Sales KPIs for Early-Stage B2B Startups
I’m continuing my war against vanity metrics.
We’ve all heard that sales is a numbers game. And yes, it is... once you know who your ICP is, your messaging is resonating, and you have a sales process worth scaling.
For early-stage startups, “just do more outreach” can be terrible advice. More emails, more calls, and more meetings don’t necessarily lead to more revenue. Sometimes they just put you on a hamster wheel without helping you understand what’s actually working.
In this workshop, we’ll look at the numbers that help you learn, refine your sales process, and eventually figure out where doing more actually makes sense.
We’ll cover:
How to put yourself in the right rooms to find potential customers
How to identify prospects online and in person
What makes a prospect qualified vs. simply interested
How to move a good conversation toward a meaningful next step
What to track across outbound, from subject lines and click-throughs to replies and booked meetings
How to track qualification, conversion rates, and sales cycles once prospects enter your pipeline
How to reverse engineer your sales activity based on what you’re actually trying to achieve
The goal isn’t to give you another dashboard full of KPIs.
It’s to help you understand what the numbers are telling you, where your funnel needs work, and when increasing your sales activity will actually help.