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Are We Underperforming Our Potential?

Partners in Excellence

We take a moment to celebrate, high 5 each other and revel in the success. We looked at the prior quarter forecast–they had committed to make $1 Billion for the quarter–and they made their number (high fives all around). At the end of the quarter, we found about 50% of the deals they forecast actually came in.

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Are We Underperforming Our Potential?

Partners in Excellence

We take a moment to celebrate, high 5 each other and revel in the success. We looked at the prior quarter forecast–they had committed to make $1 Billion for the quarter–and they made their number (high fives all around). At the end of the quarter, we found about 50% of the deals they forecast actually came in.

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The Sales Revenue Formula: How to Use It and Why It Matters

Hubspot Sales

Sales revenue is also one of the most effective metrics for historical analysis and forecasting. I’ll refer back to the absolutely mind-blowing revelation I bravely and boldly shared at the beginning of the article — businesses want to make money. That’s what makes its position at the top of an income statement significant.

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Are You Doing The Work?

Partners in Excellence

We fill our time with activities—email, tweeting, research, CRM, more meetings–some with customers, more email, forecast and pipeline reviews, deal reviews, presentations, conference calls…… The list goes on. We complain about it, we look harried, we feel time pressured, yet we revel in the busyness.

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The New (Breakout) Growth Formula: Customer Success + Predictive Sales

Sales Hacker

The revelations that emerge from uniting these two sets of data will not just align marketing and sales but all revenue-generating and customer-facing departments. Customer data enrichment, analytics, and predictive forecasting are more powerful and available than ever before. . How does machine learning come into the picture?

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Freeing Up “Time To Sell” Is BS!

Partners in Excellence

Forecasts, customer feedback, all sorts of things. Too often, we find sales people unconsciously reveling in the distraction from being with customers—being with customers is tough work! The sales person has a responsibility for providing information to their management and companies.

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Six Mobile Apps for Igniting Sales

SBI

If managers can discover ‘product A’ materials are being delivered at a significantly higher rate than ‘product D’ materials it could uncover important trends that impact forecasts and indicate market trends. Managers will rejoice at the reduction in expense management paperwork and revel in the assurance that expenses are tracking with plan.