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What indicators should you use to measure the performance of your sales team?

Frédéric Lucas

If you're not careful, measuring the performance of your sales force can quickly become a complex exercise. The number of possible measures is too great to be able to track everything. To make sense of it all, you need to simplify as much as possible and stick to two or three indicators at a time. What's more, not all measures are created equal. You need to understand the different categories of indicators before choosing to measure any. In this article, we'll look at : Performance indicator categories; The two key indicators for any sales force; How to monitor these indicators…

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