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    Sales Forecasting Essentials - get your definitions right

    There’s nothing more frustrating for a sales leader, a CEO or a Board of Directors than a continued inability to come up ...

    Why Facts Matter When Forecasting

    This article was first published in the February 2025 edition of Top Sales Magazine (link below). It’s hard to avoid the ...

    Exploding the 3* sales pipeline coverage myth

    One of the most unhelpful “rules of thumb” in B2B selling is the long standing and widely quoted myth that the benchmark ...

    Is your sales pipeline full of fatbergs?

    The sewer systems of of our towns and cities are struggling to cope with a phenomenon known as the “fatberg”. These fatbergs ...

    Sales pipeline management: let’s stop confusing progress with probability

    Sales forecasting is hard. For proof, you need look no further than the 2018 CSO Insights Sales Performance study, which ...

    B2B sales: what should we be measuring?

    If we’re in sales, there are two obvious monetary measures of our success: revenue and margin. Revenue is particularly ...

    Self-awareness and self-honesty in complex B2B sales

    Other than an appropriate level of product knowledge, what are the key attributes of a good B2B sales person? Interpersonal ...

    Size isn’t everything: why more revenue often flows from smaller pipelines

    One of the abiding urban myths that misinforms sales pipeline management is the idea that sales people need at least 3* ...

    Where did that close date come from? (and where is it going to?)

    One of the biggest challenges to the accuracy of any sales forecasting system lies in accurately predicting the close date. ...

    The keys to Improving Sales Forecast Accuracy

    As we're all very well aware, complex sales are complicated. There are subject to a wide range of factors that are outside ...