The honest verdict
An SDR is a real human you hire, train, and manage. They have personality. They might surprise you. They also cost $95K-130K all-in, take 3-6 months to ramp, churn every 18-24 months, and stop producing the moment they leave.
Sales Connector is a continuous service that costs 1/8th to 1/13th of a full-time SDR, ramps in 1 week, doesn't take vacation, and stays consistent across years.
The honest answer: an SDR has potential ceiling on the best day that SC doesn't. But the average SDR underperforms SC for most of their tenure. The math favors SC for the first 1-3 SDRs in most companies.
Many SC clients run both: Sales Connector handles the systematic top-of-funnel; SDRs focus on specific named accounts or post-meeting follow-up.
When the other one is the right answer
- You have a specific named-account list (under 100) where the human touch is the entire game.
- Your industry requires deep, technical, multi-stakeholder qualification at the top of the funnel.
- You're already running 3+ SDRs and the next one fits a clear unit-economics model.
- Your sales motion is fundamentally relational and has been for years.
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