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Sales analysis

Sales analysis is an analysis that measures and evaluates actual sales relationship to goals. Two specific tools make it work.

  1. Sales-variance analysis that measures the relative contribution of different factors to a gap in sales performance.
  2. Microsales analysis that looks at specific products, territories, and so forth that failed to produce expected sales.
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