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Fast facts
- Legal entity
- Chiara Capital Consulting Limited (trading as BackPack Closers)
- Founder
- Santino Santoro
- What it does
- Remote sales training, placement and original market research
- Website
- www.backpackclosers.com
- Media contact
- marketing@backpackclosers.com
- Usage
- Assets and statistics free to reproduce with attribution and a link
Company boilerplate
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BackPack Closers is a remote sales training and placement firm founded by Santino Santoro. It trains people to sell high-ticket offers over the phone and places qualified closers, account executives and appointment setters into live sales seats with vetted companies. It also publishes original research on remote sales pay, hiring demand and offer economics.
Founder bios
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Short — 25 words
Santino Santoro is the founder of BackPack Closers, a remote sales training and placement firm, and publishes original research on remote sales pay and hiring.
Medium — 60 words
Santino Santoro is the founder of BackPack Closers, a remote sales training and placement firm. He trains people to close high-ticket offers over the phone and places qualified closers, account executives and setters into live sales seats. He publishes the Remote Sales Earnings Report, the Remote Sales Hiring Index and the Offer & Niche Index.
Long — 120 words
Santino Santoro is the founder of BackPack Closers, a remote sales training and placement firm operating under Chiara Capital Consulting Limited. He works with people entering remote sales from scratch as well as experienced closers moving into higher-ticket offers, and with the companies hiring them — coaching, consulting, agency, B2B services and SaaS operators who need sales talent that can close over the phone. Alongside the training and placement work, he publishes BackPack Closers' original research: the Remote Sales Earnings Report, benchmarking closer, account executive, SDR and BDR compensation across the US and UK; the Remote Sales Hiring Index, tracking demand and hiring behaviour; and the Offer & Niche Index, scoring which offers and niches are the best to sell.
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Headline statistics
Our most-quoted numbers, with the report each one comes from. Definitions and sources are on the methodology page.
- $111,504US average high-ticket closer compensation
- $196,000Median US SaaS AE on-target earnings (OTE)
- $58,500Typical US SDR / BDR total compensation
- 50 / 50Standard base-to-variable split for AEs
- 41%Share of remote sales openings that are closing roles
- 34 daysMedian time from first application to first offer
- 62%Remote closing roles advertised as commission-only
- 3.1%Application-to-offer conversion rate
- $7,400Median high-ticket offer price across tracked niches
- 10%Median commission paid to a commission-only closer
- $740Median commission per closed deal
- 8.4 / 10Top Closer Opportunity Score, B2B services & agency retainers
Official entity & channels
BackPack Closers is the trading name of Chiara Capital Consulting Limited, registered in England & Wales. Our only official website is https://www.backpackclosers.com. Please use this domain when citing or linking to us.
- Brand name
- BackPack Closers
- Legal entity
- Chiara Capital Consulting Limited
- Official website
- https://www.backpackclosers.com
- Founder
- Santino Santoro
- Press contact
- marketing@backpackclosers.com
- Sector
- Remote sales training & placement
Official profiles
Media enquiries
Interviews, commentary on remote sales hiring and pay, or data requests — email marketing@backpackclosers.com. We usually reply within two working days.
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