Tag Archives: sales forecasting

Tracey Kauffman

Quick Tips: Pipeline Analytics for Weekly Sales Meetings

Running a weekly sales meeting isn’t always as smooth or efficient as it should be, but really there are only three questions you should be asking yourself, and those questions should yield actionable responses. In most cases, these questions aren’t …
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Barbra Gago

Terminology: Sales Forecasting

The short answer is that sales forecasts are estimates of what your business is going to be in the future. It’s the process of predicting sales for a company or individual. Forecasting tools can be leveraged to help companies fully …
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Denis Pombriant

Why Your Sales Pipeline Is Like the Stock Market

Trading stocks is no game for the faint hearted or fools. I am no expert but even the proverbial blind horse can see that in this market especially, there are all sorts of factors that influence whether or not a …
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Barbra Gago

Before Predictability You Need Accuracy

There are many sales forecasting applications out there, but as our CEO so eloquently put it yesterday, the problem is that “you can forecast your way all the way to failure.” The key to true predictability is better pipeline management …
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Denis Pombriant

Managing Change in Your Pipeline

At some point in a sales career, most sales people have experienced the fun of working in a rapidly expanding market. It’s fun because everyone, it seems, needs and wants your product. Sales cycles are short because the market is …
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Barbra Gago

Sales Management 2.0: Optimizing Sales Performance

In the recent study, Sales Management Optimization, CSO Insights found that most Sales Managers know what to do, but they are having a hard time performing. The study gathered data on over 100 metrics to try and identify sales management …
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