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May 26, 2015 by Eric Butts Leave a Comment

Why Sales Are A Terrible Indicator Of Business Health (And 3 Metrics You Should Look At Instead)

 

Business health metricsI get why you want to tout your sales.

You’re proud a bunch of people actually thought it worth while to give you money for the product or service you sell.

It’s the number you can reach out and touch to make you feel like all your hard work yielded real results.

That sweet, sweet validation reinforces everything you did so you keep it up going forward.

And that’s exactly the problem. [Read more…]

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