Scrase: Checkr mid-market sales average 30 days, enterprise up to a year
Lindsey Scrase · Usage-Based Revenue Models: Successes & Pitfalls from Checkr COO Lindsey Scrase on CRO Confidential · Jan 8, 2025 · at 7:06
Checkr COO Lindsey Scrase outlines sales cycle velocities and contract sizes across Checkr's mid-market and enterprise customer segments.
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“The, in the mid-market, kind of commercial mid-market segment, thinking like, 30 days is the average cycle time, and deal sizes in the tens of thousands of dollars, typically, and then up into enterprise. With enterprise, it could be as long as a year sales cycle and deal sizes in the a 100,000 dollars and above.”
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