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Jeffrey Gitomer is an American author, speaker, and business trainer known for his expertise in sales, customer loyalty, and personal development. He has written several bestselling books on sales and motivation.
Known for: The Sales Acceleration Formula
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The Sales Acceleration Formula
What if great sales performance were not a mystery driven by charisma, instinct, or luck, but a repeatable system that could be measured, improved, and scaled? That is the central promise of The Sales Acceleration Formula. In this book, Mark Roberge explains how he helped build HubSpot’s sales engine by replacing traditional, personality-driven sales management with a rigorous, data-backed process for hiring, training, coaching, and forecasting. Instead of relying on gut feel, he shows how sales leaders can use metrics and experimentation to build teams that grow predictably. The book matters because many companies hit a painful wall as they scale. What worked for the founder or the first few reps stops working when the team grows, quotas rise, and investors expect consistency. Roberge offers a practical blueprint for solving that problem. His authority comes from direct experience: as HubSpot’s Chief Revenue Officer, he helped grow revenue from zero to tens of millions while expanding the sales team rapidly. The result is a modern sales playbook that connects analytics, talent, coaching, and process into one operating system for growth.
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Sales Can Be Engineered, Not Improvised
Many companies still treat sales like an art form practiced by a few gifted individuals, but Roberge’s most powerful insight is that scalable growth comes from turning sales into a system. When revenue depends on a handful of naturally talented reps, performance becomes fragile. One top performer le...
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Hire for Traits, Not Just Experience
A surprising truth in sales is that past experience is often a weak predictor of future success. Many managers hire based on impressive resumes, industry familiarity, or polished interview performance, only to discover that the new rep cannot adapt to the company’s actual selling environment. Roberg...
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A Repeatable Hiring Formula Reduces Guesswork
Bad sales hires are expensive not only because of salary and lost deals, but because they consume management time, damage morale, and distort forecasts. Roberge’s insight is that hiring improves dramatically when treated as an iterative, evidence-based process. Instead of relying on manager instinct...
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Training Must Match the Buyer Journey
One of the biggest mistakes in sales training is treating onboarding as a one-time transfer of product knowledge. Reps sit through presentations, memorize features, and are then expected to perform. Roberge argues that effective training should mirror the actual buyer journey and prepare reps to gui...
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Coaching Scales Performance Better Than Pressure
When teams miss quota, many leaders respond with urgency, pressure, and motivational speeches. Roberge’s view is more disciplined: sustained improvement comes from coaching, not emotion. Pressure may create short bursts of activity, but coaching changes behavior. And behavior, repeated over time, ch...
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Demand Generation and Sales Must Align
Sales teams often blame marketing for weak leads, while marketing teams blame sales for poor follow-up. Roberge shows that this tension is not just cultural; it is operational. If demand generation and sales are misaligned on definitions, timing, and feedback loops, growth slows no matter how talent...
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About Mark Roberge
Jeffrey Gitomer is an American author, speaker, and business trainer known for his expertise in sales, customer loyalty, and personal development. He has written several bestselling books on sales and motivation.
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Jeffrey Gitomer is an American author, speaker, and business trainer known for his expertise in sales, customer loyalty, and personal development. He has written several bestselling books on sales and motivation.
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