OpenSymmetry

MARCH 24, 2015

2015 started strong for us at OpenSymmetry in Singapore. With such great activity, we took part as a speaker and exhibitor at the Anaplan Hub in Singapore on 18 th March 2015. In particular, the Anaplan Revenue and Forecasting model demo garnered a lot of interest from booth visitors. Many showed a keen interest in our demos.

Cost Per Thousand 40

Cost Per Thousand Forecasting Revenue LinkedIn 40

The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

The piece pointed to a prediction by Forrester around 2015 about the size and nature of B2B sales in 2020. In a piece I posted on July 19, 2011 , I questioned another mainstream piece forecasting a dramatic decline in B2B sellers and the nature of their role. And it has to a degree been.

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Revenue Top of Funnel Sales Qualified Lead Lead Rank 370

Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 19, 2015

Issue Date: 2015-03-20. Teaser: The death of trade shows has been forecast since the days of dial-up modems, but whenever budgeting time rolls around, many companies are hesitant to cut exhibiting out of the mix. Author: SMM Staff. Here's what we heard back. Here's what we heard back. read more'

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Trade Show Forecasting Marketing Company 120

Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 25, 2015

Issue Date: 2015-01-26. To move today’s sales and revenue forecasting from spreadsheets to a data-driven, prescriptive objective,we need to apply data science to revenue data. Author: Travis Patterson. read more'

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Forecasting Objections Revenue Data 120

Awarathon

AUGUST 8, 2023

“An AI-powered video roleplay software is one of the most effective sales tools for streamlining your sales process, assisting your organization in meeting sales quotas, and forecasting sales for the upcoming quarters online effectively.” It focuses on sales readiness through sales enablement and training. So who’s using Mindtickle?

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Video Ideal Customer Profile Pharmaceuticals Forecasting 52

Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 14, 2020

Nevertheless, a forecast on WFH from Global Workplace Analytics expects that those who were working remotely before the pandemic will increase their frequency long term. He amassed a copious amount of research on the impact of isolated work for his 2015 book “Humans Are Underrated: What High Achievers Know That Brilliant Machines Never Will.”

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Face-to-face Policies Journal Call-back 194

BuzzBoard

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Inadequately Structured Sales Funnel Becoming a Barrier A weak sales funnel reverberates internally, affecting not only client acquisition but also resource allocation, forecasting, and overall strategic planning. It limits the agency’s ability to forecast accurately, hindering the planning of future growth initiatives.

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Top of Funnel Ideal Customer Profile Funnel Social Media 52

The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

Last year, new research from Forrester boldly predicted the Death of the B2B Sales Rep, making some stark forecasts: Much of B2B buying will not need sales reps anymore, and will move to lower cost self-service or inside sales reps. On the heels of these forecasts, SiriusDecisions countered with research of their own.

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Trends B2B Decision Maker Forecasting 80

DiscoverOrg Sales

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

At the end of 2015, we realized to grow the way we had forecasted to our Board of Directors, we needed better data on our prospects and customers. What a stupid realization given that we are solving this exact issue for 2,000+ customers.

Data 181

Data Engineering Call-back Forecasting 181

HeavyHitter Sales

OCTOBER 20, 2015

State-of-the-art sales forecasting  strategies and key research metrics.   October 29th, 2015 / 8:30am PST. Understanding sales management styles and how they impact organizational effectiveness. Interview excerpts where top sales leaders share their strategies and best practices.   CLICK HERE TO REGISTER.

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Webinar Metrics Comparison Sales Forecasts Forecasting 60

Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

In the five years between 2010 and 2015, the number of inside sales reps doubled. Expect analytical, sales forecasting and productivity tools all to become more powerful and sophisticated with artificial intelligence (AI). Given these forces, here’s what we anticipate. Increasing demand for skilled inside sales reps.

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Inside Sales Trends Outsourcing Services Face-to-face 209

The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

A predicted anemic increase in IT spending at the beginning of 2015 has now been replaced with a 5.5% Although Gartner blamed the decline on a rising dollar, we don’t buy it and have seen where prior forecast declines by Gartner were actually blamed on a declining dollar! Decline in IT Spending for 2015 - [link].

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Decision Maker Marketing Proposal Channels 74

Seismic - Sales Effectiveness

AUGUST 25, 2019

The 2015 MHO Best Practices Study reveals that “having a strategy and knowing the right things to do [is] a huge differentiator between top performers and others” Sales Efficiency and Sales Effectiveness – What Do They Mean? Step 3: Optimize these activities.

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How To Quota Sales Enablement Survey 80

The ROI Guy

MARCH 1, 2016

Gartner recently published their latest worldwide IT spending forecasts, and with a likely economic slowdown on the horizon, are projecting an anemic 0.6% YoY increase from 2015. The Bottom-Line It is likely there will be anemic or even more likely negative IT spending growth forecasts for the next several years.

ROI 53

ROI Decision Maker Proposal Forecasting 53

OpenSymmetry

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Digital influence in the UK Retail Market reports that consumers prefer to use their own device for assistance in-store, rather than ask a sales assistant and 33% of in-store sales was affected by mobile in 2014 and that number was expected to increase to 50% by the end of 2015.

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Retail Scale Consumer Forecasting 40

Salesmate

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Published – October 2015. It guides you on what to do when your sales reps miss their quota, how to accurately forecast, how to design a compensation plan, and more. I invest some time reading some best sales management books and getting actionable takeaways to amp up your sales team’s performance. Sales management simplified.

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Sales Management Face-to-face Quota Coaching 116

MEDDIC

MARCH 11, 2022

They sign bigger deals faster, with complete visibility over the forecast. Metrics from organizations that have successfully leveraged MEDDPICC ® show a drastic reduction in the sales cycle, an increase in the average contract value, a higher win rate, and more accurate forecasts.

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Real Estate Quota Hiring Sales Qualified Lead 52

OpenSymmetry

JULY 15, 2015

The 2015 SPM Vendor Guide is an informative resource offering detailed information around technology vendors in the space and helps organizations understand and evaluate what options they have to improve efficiencies. Similar to last year edition, the 2015 Vendor Guide expands into the following areas: Business Intelligence.

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Vendor Territories Compensation SalesForce 40

Hubspot Sales

JANUARY 26, 2022

Always in Demand : Sales jobs are always available and are forecasted to continue growing. Editor's note: This post was originally published in October 2015 and has been updated for comprehensiveness. Personal Growth Opportunities : You’ll grow both your professional and interpersonal skills in a sales role.

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Sales Qualified Lead Scale Salary Commission 97

Customer Centric Selling

OCTOBER 12, 2016

made their 2015 numbers last year. The data for forecasting often amounts to opinions of salespeople asked each month to put in writing how good a job they’re doing. The data for forecasting often amounts to opinions of salespeople asked each month to put in writing how good a job they’re doing.

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Hiring Compensation Forecasting Survey 40

Tenfold

AUGUST 16, 2017

Even current weather forecasting systems, spam filtering programs, and Google’s search engine – among so many other practical applications – are AI-powered. Industry observers tack this resurgence to 2015, when fast and powerful parallel processing became accessible. Now, artificial intelligence doesn’t seem that alarming, right?

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Lead Rank Automotive Lead Scoring Retail 82

The ROI Guy

JULY 11, 2017

Now, two years on, the forecast from Forrester is even gloomier, with faster than anticipated disintermediation. Unfortunately, too many sales reps and enablement groups haven’t gotten the memo, and remain entrenched in their old ways.

B2B 66

B2B ROI Buyer Competition 66

SBI

MAY 7, 2015

There’s no better place to learn how you can get more leads, motivate your sales reps, get deals signed faster, hold better conversations, convert more leads into opportunities, strategize, collaborate, forecast, follow-up, engage, AND close. See which tools we chose for: Mobile Sales Enablement. Sales Enablement.

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Tools Territories Compensation Inside Sales 50

Customer Centric Selling

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Inaccurate forecasting. Forecasts are used by reps, sales management, and executive teams to predict upcoming revenue, plan expenses, and make hiring decisions. Most importantly, forecasting is used to guide strategy and gauge success. I recently analyzed 10 of our lost deals in 2015. Sign 2: Poorly qualified deals.

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Pipeline Lead Rank Lead Scoring Infor 40

The ROI Guy

JULY 5, 2011

Gartner’s forecasts are up significantly from estimates earlier in the year, when 5.6 % growth for 2011 was the prediction, despite the disaster and perceived pause in the global recovery. Worldwide IT Spending Forecast (Billions of U.S. Worldwide IT spending is estimated to grow by 7.1% Enterprise Software 244 8.4 IT Services 793 3.1

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Telecommunications Enterprise Enterprise Vendor 73

Your Sales Management Guru

JULY 6, 2016

Were your sales forecasts/commitments accurate? He was recently ranked for the third year in a row by Top Sales World magazine as one of the Top 50 Sales & Marketing Influencers for 2015. Metrics: does the formula for running the sales organization work? Have you tested new metrics to give you a better idea to pipeline velocity?

Sales Leadership 56

Sales Leadership Lead Rank Lead Scoring Government 56

SBI

AUGUST 22, 2019

Founded in 2015, Chorus.ai’s Conversation Intelligence Platform identifies and helps teams replicate the performance of top-performing reps by analyzing their sales meetings. The success of any enterprise sales team – whether that is defined by expanding key accounts, increasing win rates, or improving forecast accuracy –.

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Coaching Hiring SAP Lead Rank 57

SBI

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Founded in 2015, Chorus.ai’s Conversation Intelligence Platform identifies and helps teams replicate the performance of top-performing reps by analyzing their sales meetings. The success of any enterprise sales team – whether that is defined by expanding key accounts, increasing win rates, or improving forecast accuracy –.

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Customer Service SAP Hiring Customer 50

Hubspot Sales

JULY 13, 2023

It uses Natural Language Processing (NLP) and machine learning (ML) to gather and process huge amounts of text or speech to build forecasts, analyze sentiment, or pinpoint insights from vast data sets. In the Real World Back in 2015, Amazon used AI to collect resumes for hiring purposes. Lack of Accuracy AI always relies on data.

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Data Hiring Guidelines Lead Rank 74

SBI

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

They only coached to the forecast. In their hearts they knew that managing to the forecast, keeping information in their head and having one on one conversations, days after the actual sales call, is fraught with waste and highly ineffective. That meant coaching was tactically, not strategically, applied. That one’s a biggie.

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Up-Sell Closing Revenue Forecasting 50

OpenSymmetry

MAY 23, 2016

According to Gartner research’s 2016 Sales Performance Management Magic Quadrant , the entire industry grew 10% in 2015, reaching a valuation of $715 million just in software sales with an estimated growth to $1.54bn by 2019. The total market including all consulting and managed services is estimated to be worth $2.7bn. Steps to Success.

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Territories Vendor Incentives Incentive 40

OpenSymmetry

FEBRUARY 21, 2015

Sales teams are encouraged to build the biggest pipeline, often resulting in inflated numbers and reporting disasters because no one knows what they should report on, causing angst for the CFO who is primarily concerned with presenting an accurate forecast. How can these departments avoid misalignment and create a predictable forecast?

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Cost Per Thousand Vendor Journal Webinar Metrics 40

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

When I landed in Dublin in 2015, I was a bright-eyed, bushy-tailed 26-year-old who had severely under-estimated and oversimplified the work in front of me. This council approval process shocked our pipeline, screwed up our forecast, and stalemated our deal urgency plays because we weren’t prepared for it. What did we change?

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Hiring Scale Ideal Customer Profile Lead Rank 99

Jonathan Farrington

DECEMBER 8, 2014

But most important of all, they are rigorous in tracking account progress and are able to accurately forecast future sales, because they use a proven methodology which allows them to realistically weight every opportunity in the pipeline. What a great exercise to kick-off 2015? Or are you happy to continue playing the numbers game?

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Epiphany Decision Maker Pipeline Buying Cycle 47

Pointclear

MARCH 6, 2012

According to Aberdeen , 40% of the sales-forecasted pipeline among Best-in-Class companies is generated by marketing, compared with 22% among Industry Average firms and 13% within Laggard companies. Moreover, Best-in-Class companies report a 31.6% average year-over-year growth in corporate revenue, versus 18.7% decline among Laggards.

Influencer 162

Influencer Buyer Persona Lead Rank Case Study 162

Jonathan Farrington

OCTOBER 5, 2014

Are rigorous in tracking account progress and are able to accurately forecast future sales because they use proven methodology, which allows them to weight every opportunity in the pipeline. I will be hosting the event, so do please join us for this second session in the 2014/2015 Top Sales Academy series – please register HERE.

Top of Funnel 50

Top of Funnel Penetration Decision Maker Cold Calling 50

The ROI Guy

JANUARY 6, 2012

The New Year’s cheer didn’t last long for IT, as Gartner was quick to lower its global technology spending forecast, barely a week into 2012. growth forecasts. growth forecasts. Looking beyond 2012, Gartner also estimates continued headwinds, lowering future forecasts for 2015 downwards to 5% growth from earlier 5.4%

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Case Study Marketing Comparison Forecasting 72