If you want to know how your marketing and demand gen teams performed last quarter, you’re in luck. There’s a slew of marketing and revenue analytics tools geared at measuring historical lead generation and conversion rates and attributing past revenue to lead sources. But if you’re the CEO of a small to medium-sized tech startup, […]
In a perfect world, your company would hit its revenue projection every time. In a good-enough world, you’d hit it at least most of the time. Unfortunately, the current reality may not reflect either of those scenarios. Small Business Trends reports that in 2018, 46% of sales reps missed their quotas. According to Forbes, the […]
Marketing, Sales, and Operations teams today have no shortage of tech solutions at their disposal. Ask any team – even those at startups and SMBs – and they’ll likely tell you their tech stack looks more like a tech skyscraper, built with a litany of tools for demand gen, analytics, and lead attribution. The problems? […]
We’re at the knee of the COVID-19 infection curve in the US with several thousand confirmed; new infections already announced this weekend (the date of this writing is March 15, 2020). Most logistic curve simulations of the virus’ spread suggest a doubling of total infections every 4 to 6 days until containment methods like social […]
This is the last blog in our 4-blog series on Scientific Forecasting. In the previous blogs we discussed three major topics, i.e. cultural hurdles to forecasting, in-quarter corrective actions, and forecast types by forecasting time horizons. Once mastered, addressing these three areas will result in higher forecasting predictability. What looks easy, is however not so […]
This is blog no. 3 in our 4-blog series, with the last blog having started getting into the issues needing to be addressed when implementing Scientific Forecasting. In this blog we’ll get into the different types of forecasts and some suggestions on when and how to use each type. Different types of revenue forecasts: […]
This is blog no. 2 in our 4-blog series about Scientific Forecasting. In the last blog we talked about why managing expenses to the penny while winging the revenue forecasts doesn’t make financial sense and can cause wasted resources in excessive re-budgeting. In this second blog we’ll shift gears and start talking about how to […]
