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Find the Right Metrics for Your Sales Team

Harvard Business Review

As a consequence, managers don’t have a clear sense of what is really driving sales in their business, while salespeople, who are inundated with dozens of metrics, get lost in the day-to-day noise. The result is poor management of what matters. The challenge, of course, is to decide on the right metrics.

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The Science of Building a Scalable Sales Team

Harvard Business Review

When I came to HubSpot five years ago, I had never run a sales team, so I didn't know the conventional techniques that sales managers use. Instead, I relied on my background as an MIT-trained engineer to create a system of hiring and development that relies on metrics and quantitative analysis. The hiring began.

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