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Book notes: The Sales Acceleration Formula

Sales 2.0

I’ve been using the summer to review some of the classic books in sales and marketing and refresh some of the fundamentals to building world-class “revenue engines” described. I started with Mark Roberge’s book “The Sales Acceleration Formula: Using Data, Technology, and Inbound Selling to go from $0 to $100 Million”.

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What is Sales Forecasting? Why it Matters + 11 Tools to Consider

Sales Hacker

After spending many quarters creating sales forecasts, you should have the process down and deliver precision accuracy. Unfortunately, sales forecasting is not that straightforward. In fact, 60% of forecasted deals don’t close, leading to uncomfortable conversations about budgets and with investors. What is sales forecasting?

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A Forecasting Tutorial

Partners in Excellence

Mistakenly, I had assumed people understood the basics around pipeline management, how to use the pipeline as a tool for maximizing personal performance, and other things. In the previous post, I talked about the distinction between pipelines and forecasts. So this post is a quick tutorial in forecasting.

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Account Management, Quotas and Forecasting

Pipeliner

Another important foundational aspect of account management—and sales itself—is the handling of quotas and forecasting. From my observation, only a few companies manage the problems for quotas and forecasting well. The truth is that too much of the time, quotas, forecasts, targets, and goals are often generated out of wishful thinking.

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Proven sales forecasting methods for small businesses

PandaDoc

You’ve probably turned on CNBC long enough to hear about big companies hitting or missing their “sales forecasts,” and you’ve probably seen company stocks going up or down based on how analytics compare historical sales data to those forecasts. What is a sales forecast? Of course, sales forecasts can also be woefully incorrect.

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Top 10 sales management books every sales manager must read

Salesmate

Well, you can get many tips, tactics, and strategies from various sales management books. Best sales management books you must read. I invest some time reading some best sales management books and getting actionable takeaways to amp up your sales team’s performance. The book is nicely laid out. Published – May 2016.

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Top Sales Tools of 2020 and the Digital Sales Revolution

SBI

Top Sales Tools of 2020 and the Digital Sales Revolution. Today, I’m announcing the solution providers I’ve selected for the final cut of the Top Sales Tools of 2020 list. It was in 2009, after two-decades of sales experience, and 4 years after the launch of the AppExchange, that I started Smart Selling Tools. December 8, 2020.