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    An evidence-based approach to improving sales forecast accuracy

    An evidence-based approach to improving sales forecast accuracy

    I was chatting recently with Thomas Oriol (a Director at Nimble Apps Limited) when he mentioned some recent research they had conducted amongst their customer base into the relative effectiveness of various forecasting methodologies. Thomas was kind enough to offer to ...

    Banning BANT: it’s not how big the budget is, but how big the issue is

    Regular readers will know that I’m no great fan of the traditional BANT (Budget, Authority, Need and Timeframe) approach to ...

    How can sales people prevent premature elaboration?

    It’s not a very edifying sight, but it happens way, way too often. A prospect gives the faintest acknowledgement of a ...

    3 critical questions for B2B sales: Why Change? Why Now? Why You?

    Your company is facing an increasingly strong competitor - yet you won’t find them listed in any Google search of the key ...

    How to use sales rep scorecards to drive sales performance

    I'm very pleased to be able to share another must-read guest article from the ever-insightful Swayne Hill of Data-Driven ...

    Exclusive McKinsey Interview: Finding the Mountaintops in Your Markets

    Homayoun Hatami of McKinsey is one of the co-authors of the widely acclaimed “Sales Growth - Five Proven Strategies from the ...

    B2B Sales + Marketing: how much demand do you really need to generate?

    How much demand do you really generate each month to hit your revenue targets? It’s a question that vexes many B2B sales and ...

    Why you have to become a marketing-driven sales organisation

    Is your organisation sales-driven or marketing-driven? That's the question posed in our latest guest contribution from ...

    4 distinctively different states of the B2B buying decision process

    I’ve written before about the Buyer’s Journey, and about the stages that your b2b prospects go through in their buying ...

    The Harvard Business Review explores what makes a great tweet

    Twitter is a runaway success, with more than half-a-billion registered users, and a community that spans both business and ...