A Sales Qualified Lead (SQL) represents a prospect who has progressed beyond initial marketing engagement and demonstrates genuine potential for conversion. Unlike Marketing Qualified Leads (MQLs) that indicate early interest, SQLs have been vetted by sales professionals and meet specific criteria that suggest a higher likelihood of becoming a paying customer. These leads sit strategically in the middle of your sales funnel, having moved past the awareness stage but not yet reached the final purchase decision point.

The Sales and Marketing to Revenue Ratio represents the percentage of total revenue that a company invests in its sales and marketing activities. This metric serves as a critical indicator of how efficiently a company is acquiring and retaining customers relative to the revenue those efforts generate. It encompasses all costs associated with customer acquisition, including advertising spend, sales team compensation, marketing technology, promotional activities, trade shows, content creation, and customer relationship management systems. This ratio is particularly valuable for assessing the scalability and sustainability of a company's growth strategy. A well-optimised ratio indicates that the company is investing appropriately in revenue-generating activities without over-spending on customer acquisition, while maintaining the ability to compete effectively in its market. The metric also provides insight into a company's operational maturity and its ability to generate profitable growth over time.

Lift in Spend is a loyalty metric that calculates the increased spend per customer or groups of customers across two periods.

Subscriber Growth Rate measures the percentage growth of an application’s account base in a given time period compared to the previous time period. The time period can be a week, a month, a quarter, or a year.

The Subscribers metric counts the number of paid or non-paid users who have periodic access to a product or service. Most often, this metric refers to a subscription-based business model, for example, newspapers, magazines, phone, internet service, the use of software-as-a-service (SaaS), or even access to seasonal theatre performance.

Customer Issues, tickets, or incidents, refers to the capture of user or system initiated requests. These might include help requests, bug or error reports, events or alarms, feature requests, complaints or any type of other feedback. Generally we think of user generated issues first, but increasingly with the use of software and connected devices, these incident reports are being generated automatically.

Total Contract Value (TCV) is the sum value of a contract over its life cycle. It takes into account not only the initial purchase price, but also any additional costs such as installation and maintenance fees that may be incurred over time. To calculate TCV, these costs must be added together to get an estimate of the total contract value over its life.

Transaction Recency measures the duration of time since a customer’s last purchase, indicating how recently repeat customers made previous purchases. It is a great way of measuring your business’s ability to bring back customers quickly and may vary based on industry and business model.

Trial Conversion Rate measures the percentage of users that have converted to a paid account from a trial period. Commonly referred to as Free Trial to Paid Conversion Rate, this metric indicates product value by measuring the number of users that find enough value in the product to pay for it. Trial Conversion Rates vary based on the type of trial you use. In SaaS, the standard practice is to either have a freemium product or a free trial period that usually spans a couple weeks.

Trials is a count of the number of trial accounts started during a given period of time. The Trials metric helps a business gauge interest in their product and make sales predictions.

Video View Through Rate refers to the rate at which Video Views are initiated relative to the number of opportunities there were to consume the video content (video/thumbnail impressions). It is important to note that because the Video View metric definition varies across platforms, the Video View Through Rate baseline or benchmark may vary between platforms as well.

Video Views is a count of the number of times a video is watched. It can also be used to count the number of times a video is started.