This question is about sales statistics.

What percentage of salespeople fail?

By Zippia Team - Jun. 29, 2022

74% of salespeople fail. In contrast, 20% of salespeople do well but could improve and 6% of salespeople are classified as "elites." These numbers come from assessments of over 650,000 salespeople across the country and across industries from the Objective Management Group.

The study also mentions that of this massive 74% subset of salespeople, the majority (3/4) can be trained to be competent at sales. But the bottom 25% are deemed untrainable.

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