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You may also be familiar with forecasted closing dates as “Hopeium.” Under the very best of circumstances, forecasting can still be incredibly difficult. However, some factors can help you dial in your salesforecast, moving you closer to what is true, even if you don’t like the truth your forecast reveals.
Of all the B2Bsales fundamentals, nothing is more important than prospecting, even though this idea is mostly honored in the breach. B2Bsales are made up of two different outcomes, 1) creating new opportunities with your clients and prospective clients, and 2) pursuing and capturing those opportunities , i.e., winning deals.
Despite our best efforts to see both the salesprocess and buyer’s journey as linear, reality provides a truth that is at odds with what might better serve us—and our clients. In complex, B2Bsales, it is more often that deals take a circuitous path, doubling back over ground you have already covered, and full of fits and starts.
Your b2bsalesprocess doesn’t change, whether you create more work than your company can handle or generate too little work to keep people busy. Your b2b buyers aren’t going to accelerate their buying process to help you make up for lost time.
Your salesprocesses and methodologies are only suggestions if you allow them to be. Even though the sales conversation is nonlinear , it doesn’t mean that you should skip good discovery and the consensus that is now required if you want to win deals. Selling poorly, as widespread as it is, also isn’t a style.
They may die of old age, like the deal I noticed in one pipeline that had lived to the ripe old age of 1,732 days (almost five years old), a deal that was still in a forecast. The first ever playbook for B2B salespeople on how to win clients and customers who are already being serviced by your competition.". Eventually, some deals die.
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