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One Sales Aid to Avoid the Forecast Fire Drill

SBI Growth

You'll have to re-work the forecast and get it back to me tomorrow. It has to be rock solid” You’re closing in on quarter end and your boss needs an updated manual pipeline forecast for the CEO. They don’t have confidence in your forecast or the data in your CRM. We see this happening to sales operations leaders often.

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Hiring a Sales Manager - External or Internal?

SBI Growth

"Should we hire an external Sales Manager or promote from within?". Open Sales Management positions are bad for sales organizations. Having the wrong Sales Manager (SM) is worse. This post helps you decide between hiring an internal or external Sales Manager. It depends. Next Steps.

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Use Continuous Forecasting to Improve Your Chances of Hitting Targets

SBI

Forecasting is an evidence-based process that weights all the available evidence. The role of the forecast is to show what is probable and realistic, and it should confirm that set targets are achievable. The forecast should be built using analytics rather than being a simple extrapolation of what’s in the pipeline.

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AI in Sales: Focus on The Sales Conversation

Sales 2.0

Forecast management needs to be overhauled A third area ripe for AI is forecast management. “In In my experience a lot of sales managers are keeping deals in their heads and they spend a lot of time discussing what they think is going to close and why. A third area is forecast management.

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The Top Four Challenges in Sales Forecasting—and How to Right Them

Miller Heiman Group

For sales leaders, it seems forecast accuracy is as elusive as the white whale. Miller Heiman Group research finds that fewer than 20% of sales organizations have forecast accuracy of 75% or greater, which causes plenty of trouble when it comes to predicting sales performance and meeting revenue goals.

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5 AI Sales Tools That Will Help Your Sales Team Close More Deals

Mindtickle

AI tools will help your salespeople and front-line managers find the important and actionable insights within the avalanche of data that modern sales generate. Clari improves revenue forecast accuracy. Inaccurate revenue forecasts can cause major problems for your business. Rollio improves data quality.

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The Scalable Sales Manager: the Key to Unlocking Your Sales Teams’ True Potential

SBI

The Scalable Sales Manager: The Key to Unlocking Your Sales Teams’ True Potential. The role of Sales Manager has always been one of the hardest jobs in sales. To say that sales managers have their work cut out for them would be a massive understatement. by Howard Brown, CEO of ringDNA.