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Forecasting 101: Retiring Yor Crystal Ball

Forecasting 101: retiring your crystal ball

Do you find yourself struggling to demystify your revenue forecasting? Has your crystal ball run out of effective projections? It's time to retire your crystal ball and start gazing into a brighter future of stellar revenue!

Forecasting is not magic. It is just a combination of qualitative and quantitative data points that help companies get more clarity on revenue outcomes. Forecasting has a tremendous impact on your business, with benefits ranging from setting realistic expectations for your investors to supporting your hiring plan for sales.

Let our experts enlighten you with their effective data-driven forecasting tips and tricks. We aren't psychic readers but we can say, without a doubt, that your future will be brighter after this panel.

Discussion topics

  • The most common challenges to forecasting and how to solve them

  • How to forecast realistically, while shooting for the stars!

  • How to use the best data to drive your revenue goals

Key TAkeaways

  • Be prepared with your forecasting changing. Be adaptable, and think about transparency in the importance of forecasting. Transparency helps accountability, a key component of accurate forecasting. 

  • There are three things you need to have for stellar forecasting:How likely is this deal to be one value? What is it worth if it is one, and timing? When do we think we're gonna win? If you nail those three things, you have a crystal ball into forecasting. 

  • Leaders need to think focus on accuracy over volume