Janek Performance Group

APRIL 15, 2025

In many cases, the root cause of these issues can be traced to inaccurate or nonexistent sales forecasting. One study found that companies with accurate sales forecasts are 10% more likely to grow their revenue year-over-year and 7.3% What Is Sales Forecasting? How Do You Forecast Sales?

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Q: What do sales leaders, meteorologists, and economists all have in common? It’s a tough ask, and in many ways, sales leaders have the most difficult time of them all when predicting the shape of tomorrow. Unlike meteorologists or economists, their industry doesn’t use data as the bedrock of forming their forecasts.

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Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

As someone who does not have an MBA or finance degree, Ive never conducted revenue forecasting. But, I know how critical a role revenue forecasting plays in a companys financial planning as it helps to understand the businesss potential growth, identify market opportunities, and determine resource allocation. Resource planning.

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Understanding the Sales Force

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Earlier this week, the forecast called for a big nor’easter to drop 8-13 inches of heavy, wet snow in our area. When I was growing up in the 1960’s, I watched meteorologist Don Kent give his weather forecasts on WBZ channel 4 in Boston. We got 3 inches. Excited, but wrong. Excited about an opportunity, but wrong.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 15, 2021

If you’re a sales manager, you’ve maybe been in the sales forecasting hot seat — of presenting numbers that look different from your prediction. It’s time to take control of the process and find your forecasting sweet spot. What Is Sales Forecasting? Why Your Sales Forecasting Matters.

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Understanding the Sales Force

MARCH 14, 2023

As a Nor'Easter barreled across Central Massachusetts today, a few interesting storm-related happenings were analogous to some sales-related occurrences. This article will explore two weather-related analogies:

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Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

I have, and my curiosity was enough to make me look into how businesses use inventory forecasting to predict demand without incurring the costs of unsold products. Recently, I sat down with Mark Zalzal , a senior data analyst, to better understand how to forecast inventory. Table of Contents What Is Inventory Forecasting?

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Understanding the Sales Force

JANUARY 21, 2021

Bringing it closer to sales, you invested in the CRM application you needed but your salespeople aren't using it the way you had hoped. As a result, you don't have realtime data to populate your dashboard and still don't know what's really going on with your sales organization, their pipeline and the forecast.

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SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Accurate sales forecasting is essential for business success. Here are three of the most common errors that lead to incorrect forecasting and how to avoid them. But it can be difficult to get it right due to certain missteps.

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SBI Growth

MARCH 31, 2025

Companies selling into a complex B-to-B sales environment are shifting away from traditional, stage-based forecasting models in favor of more dynamic approaches, such as Commit/Upside. This shift reflects a broader realization: rigid, probability-based models often fail to capture the nuance of complex selling.

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SBI Growth

AUGUST 4, 2020

For Sales Operations leaders on a calendar year, we are rapidly approaching annual planning season. As if it wasn’t difficult enough to identify where your organization’s growth will be derived from next year while trying to forecast the back-half of.

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Zoominfo

APRIL 15, 2025

ZoomInfos State of AI in Sales and Marketing survey, which gathered insights from more than 1,000 GTM professionals, reveals just how quickly AI is transforming sales teams and the roadblocks for further AI innovation. Power users on sales teams are saving time, closing deals faster, and seeing real, measurable business results.

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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Sales teams face constant pressure to close deals faster and more effectively. Sales acceleration platforms provide a powerful solution, helping businesses optimize workflows, engage prospects, and convert leads more efficiently. What Are Sales Acceleration Platforms?

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SBI Growth

APRIL 27, 2022

Even with improved systems and increased investments in SalesTech, data is often exported into spreadsheets for Sales Ops or Sales Leaders to perform additional analysis—applying their own judgment to probabilities and timing. The reality is that no one knows which opportunities will close or when—that’s why it’s called a forecast.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 21, 2025

Sales is no longer about dialing faster or pitching harder. Today, it all comes down to using smarter sales coaching techniques. Using AI sales tools can help teams level up by analyzing real sales conversations, identifying what works and what doesnt. Sales teams need every advantage they can get.

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Understanding the Sales Force

MARCH 21, 2022

On Sales Process and Methodology - the difference between popular sales processes and methodologies. On Attracting Salespeople When Recruiting - a rant on the Two Keys to Attracting More of the Right Sales Candidates. Why Forecasts are Always So Inaccurate - a rant on why it's not the forecast!

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Understanding the Sales Force

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

The same thing happens in sales. Consider these five examples: Hitting 80% of the monthly, quarterly and/or annual forecast is hitting our numbers – success. When half of salespeople hit quota it equates to strong sales performance across the team. They changed expectations in order to meet – expectations.

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Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Forecasting can feel like a dark art part science, part intuition, and a dash of hoping for the best. But as businesses face increasing pressure to predict everything from sales targets to inventory needs, relying on gut feelings just doesn't cut it anymore. Table of Contents What Is a Forecasting Method?

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Sales teams are drowning in tools. Your sales engagement platform might tell reps when to send an email, but it has no idea if a prospect is actually in a buying cycle. Your sales engagement platform might tell reps when to send an email, but it has no idea if a prospect is actually in a buying cycle. The list goes on.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 28, 2022

Lack of quality opportunities clogs your pipeline, causes inaccurate forecasts and causes sales professionals to miss their goals. The post Qualifying Opportunities: Your Sales Growth Superpower appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

I can imagine it’s even more complicated when you’re managing sales , multiple budgets , and full-scale operations all on your own. However, I’m happy to share that there is a modern-day solution to your money management woes: Cash flow forecasting. Table of Contents: What is cash flow forecasting? Additionally, 62% of U.S.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 29, 2024

The post Better Forecasting Accuracy Is Achievable – Here’s How appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management. By addressing the factors hindering predictability, leaders can guide their teams toward success with visibility, clarity and purpose.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

I was recently assigned the task of forecasting demand for a project. I set to work using my usual methods, but I’ve not explored AI in demand forecasting. My recent project got me thinking about AI's role and whether AI could (a) aid the demand forecasting process and (b) save time. The best responses made it into this article.

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SalesFuel

APRIL 4, 2025

New advertisement spending forecasting for 2025 indicates a likely pullback by marketers. You can boost sales from your accounts by recommending the right ad campaigns in the right formats. 2025 Outlook New advertisement spending forecasting for 2025 was issued by major industry watchers last week. Magna expects a 6.7%

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 13, 2025

According to a 2023 survey of over 450 sales leaders, 91% of their teams missed quota that year. And even with revenue up in 2024 , reps are still struggling to meet their sales goals. Getting stuck on YTD sales. Projecting a sales cycle ahead of time gives sellers a better chance of making their numbers.

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Understanding the Sales Force

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Motivated buyer – something they want and need, but you still fall short of urgency, leading to a very long sales cycle. The three alternatives are: Nice to have and when it’s only nice to have, your opportunity will stall midway through the pipeline. You’ll keep trying but it won’t close.

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The Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Sales Scrum Episode #19 – Guest David Masover. David is the president David Masover Sales Consulting and shares how he leverages the sales process to drive success. How to turn sales managers into prospecting leaders. Make data-driven choice and forecasts. The right tools to drive the process. •

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Understanding the Sales Force

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Most sales teams win fewer than half their “games,” and while defense can’t be blamed, pitching can! Unlike the Red Sox, most sales teams have too much pitching (demos and presentations)! As of this writing, they have assessed 106 sales and sales management candidates.

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Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Thats how I started using AI for financial forecasting. Join me as I explore the basics of AI financial forecasting and how you can test and adopt it yourself. Table of Contents Why Use AI for Financial Forecasting? More than a quarter of companies (28%) use AI for finance analytics, including forecasting.

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SBI Growth

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Take a quick look at the forecasted end-of-year close dates in your CRM system. What dates do most of your sales team’s opportunities show? Do you see a lot of December 31 st close dates? Chances are your sellers don’t understand how high performers close business and enjoy a more stress-free holiday.

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The Pipeline

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Last week I saw a piece on LinkedIn, that questioned the accuracy of predictions about the future of B2B sales and selling made in the past decade. The piece pointed to a prediction by Forrester around 2015 about the size and nature of B2B sales in 2020. Is sales is making the most of their newfound time and resources?”

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Anthony Cole Training

JUNE 7, 2024

BAI’s forecast for financial services organizations’ deposit growth in the year ahead is negative, with a forecasted 2.4% In fact, according to BAI Banking Outlook: 2024 Trends, “the No. 1 business challenge for bankers will be growing their deposits. decline in deposits. “

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Zoominfo

JUNE 24, 2019

Today John Holland, Chief Content Officer of CustomerCentric Selling, helps us cover the other side of the coin—artificial intelligence within the sales process. The Problem with B2B Artificial Intelligence and Sales. Only a mere 13% of the modern sales force consists of ‘A Players’ – or reps who consistently exceed quota.

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Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 13, 2020

Author: Andres Lares, Shapiro Negotiations Institute There is a small truism about connecting with people that anyone in sales can tell you, and they learned it early in their careers. In sales and negotiations, the uncertainty and fear spread by COVID-19 has created unanticipated obstacles and challenges. Provide a focused agenda.

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SBI Growth

APRIL 27, 2020

In the world of a sales enablement leader, the primary goal is to keep the sales team efficient and effective. How that goal gets accomplished occurs with consistent resegmenting of the customer base, cleansing the pipeline, and accurately forecasting changes.

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