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How to Fix Your Broken Sales Forecast Before It's Too Late

SBI Growth

Will upper management be able to rely on your sales revenue forecasts in 2013? Many Sales Ops leaders I’ve spoken with are proud of a +/- 10% forecast accuracy. Your Q1 forecast calls for $120 million and you come in at $108 million. Forecasts are tricky. Forecasts are tricky. Sales guys tend to be too optimistic.

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How Social Prospecting Helps Forecasting

SBI Growth

He tells you to produce more consistent forecasts ASAP. If your organization has done buyer persona work, bucketing by persona is effective. Your forecasts will be more accurate and your goals more attainable. Very few leads from marketing convert to accounts. You’re hearing it from your Sales Managers and reps.

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Are Buyer Personas Dead?

The ROI Guy

A few articles have appeared recently touting the death of Buyer Personas, which prompted me to ask Jim Ninivaggi, Sales Enablement service lead from SiriusDecisions about whether this was really true. The Bottom-Line As Jim Ninivaggi indicates, because value is in the eye of the beholder, B2B Buyer Personas are definitely not dead.

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How Social Prospecting Helps Forecasting

SBI Growth

He tells you to produce more consistent forecasts ASAP. If your organization has done buyer persona work, bucketing by persona is effective. Your forecasts will be more accurate and your goals more attainable. Very few leads from marketing convert to accounts. You’re hearing it from your Sales Managers and reps.

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Why Sales Analytics Is Essential to Navigating an Uncertain Market

Chorus.ai

As price sensitivity rises, disposable income drops, and a recession looms, it’s never been harder for SaaS companies to make accurate forecasts and plot their forward course. Using sales analytics involves taking a selection of existing data categorized by metric and using it to model, forecast, and understand the outcome of future sales.

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Operationalize Personas to Meet Your 2013 Goals

SBI Growth

Encourage sales and marketing to build personas and build a plan to operationalize them immediately. Over the past year, many organizations have built buyer personas (Read more about buyer personas here and here ). 4 Keys to Making the Persona Project Successful. They have under delivered and under whelmed.

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February 2019 B2B Blog Post Round-Up

Zoominfo

The February edition features content about recruiting nightmares, inadequate buyer personas, key considerations for technology buying, and so much more. 5 Reasons Your Buyer Personas Aren’t Good Enough. Bad buyer personas. That’s why I’m sharing five easy ways to improve your buyer personas.

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