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Forecastable

It’s All About The Team

The Forecastable business has evolved over the better part of a decade into a fully-managed services organization, backed by world-class talent and investors.

The Power Behind the Platform: Meet Our Leadership Team

We believe collaboration is key. That’s why our platform is built and guided by a team with a proven track record of success in co-selling. Get to know the minds behind the movement.

Alex Buckles

Product, Partnerships, and Value Engineering (Co-founder)

Jenelle Friday

Customer Success

Paul Johnson

Chief Technology Officer
(Co-founder)

Adrian Miele

Director of Advisory Services

Mollie Bodensteiner

Revops Advisory

How We Differ

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The First Partner Co-Selling Methodology + Certification Ever Created

  • Officially Distributed via Partnernomics & University of Central Missouri
  • Co-Sell Certified Sales Leader Certification Offered via Communities like Pavilion
For more information on our available certifications, by role, please email certifications@forecastable.com
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100+ Global Go-To-Market Consultants Ready to Serve

Certifications achieved through Forecastable’s Referral Partner Program or Certified Co-Sell Advisory program.
Please email advisory@forecastable.com to learn more.
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Managed Software & Services Provider (MSSP)

Whether leveraging Forecastable’s fully or partially-managed co-sell program offerings, all technology and service providers required to stand up, execute, and scale your co-sell program can be purchased on a single contract.
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Unique Up-Market & Down-Market Expertise & Offerings

  • Forecastable’s CEO was a 6x CRO. He served companies ranging from venture-backed startups to $500M+ ARR organizations with oversight over global revenue functions, including partnerships involving complex & worldwide distributors and resellers.
  • Forecastable’s founder has nearly two decades of enterprise sales expertise, particularly in SaaS. also grown two professional services organizations, deploying co-selling strategies in both scenarios, with both leading to eventual exits. His life’s passion is serving those on the autism spectrum through his organization, Pathways for Autism.
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Flexible Enterprise & Startup Financing

  • Enterprise: Whether you want to finance your partner program to spread out risk, normalize partner spend, or to add more MDF fuel to your partner machine, we’ve got options for you. Your CFO will love you for it!
  • Startups: Let us become your partnerships department. Forecastable has all of the strategies, tactics, and technologies you need to operate a fully-functioning partner program, including partner managers, partner operations personnel, and ops-level sales assistants.
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Co-Marketing &
Co-Selling Expertise

While Forecastable is the market leader in co-selling, it has partnered with a network of other organizations for best-in-class partner marketing services.
Whether you need to tell better-together value stories at scale, simple partner webinars, or complex partner ABM campaigns deployed, it can all be done on a single Forecastable agreement.
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The best advice on building partner programs that produce forecastable revenue.

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Referral Partner: What It Is and How to Work With One

Short answer Short answer: A referral partner is a company or individual who introduces you to prospects in their network in exchange for a fee, without taking part in the sale or the transaction. It matters because a referral partner opens warm doors that cold outreach cannot, but the model only produces when the referral […]

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Editor's Picks

Through-Channel Marketing: What It Is and How It Works

Short answer Short answer: Through channel marketing is demand generation a vendor runs through its partners, supplying campaigns, content, and funds so partners market to their own customers under their own brand. It matters because partners own trusted relationships a vendor cannot reach directly, but most of these programs underperform because they push vendor material […]

Partnership Marketing: What It Is and How to Run It

Short answer Short answer: Partnership marketing is joint marketing between two companies that combine audiences, content, and channels to generate demand for a shared value proposition. It matters because a co-branded campaign borrows the trust and reach of both brands at once, which is why a partner webinar or joint guide usually outperforms the same […]

B2B Partner Marketing Strategy: To, Through, With

What a B2B partner marketing strategy is Short answer: A B2B partner marketing strategy is the plan for how you market to partners, through partners, and with partners, so partner relationships turn into pipeline rather than logos on a slide. It works when each of those three audiences has its own goal and the whole […]

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Partner Manager: What the Role Is and Does

What is a partner manager? Short answer: A partner manager is the person who owns a set of partner relationships and, more importantly, the pipeline and revenue those partners produce, responsible for recruiting, enabling, and co-selling with them. It is a quota-adjacent role, closer to sales than to account management, and the best partner managers […]

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Allbound PRM: Capabilities, Fit, and Alternatives

What is Allbound PRM? Short answer: Allbound PRM is a full-suite partner relationship management platform for standing up a partner portal, onboarding partners, sharing enablement content, and registering deals. It gives a partner team one place to administer partners at scale rather than running the program out of email and spreadsheets. It sits in the […]

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Head of Partnerships Job Responsibilities Explained

What does a head of partnerships do? Short answer: The head of partnerships job responsibilities center on one outcome, partner-sourced and partner-influenced revenue, and everything else is in service of it. They own the program’s operating model, recruit and enable the right partners, run co-sell alongside direct sales, and report what the program produces in […]

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OEM Alliance Partners: How the Model Actually Works

What are OEM alliance partners? Short answer: OEM alliance partners are two companies where one embeds the other’s product inside its own offering and resells it under its own brand, with the underlying vendor paid through a license or revenue share. They are the deepest form of technology partnership because the embedded product becomes part […]

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Partner Incentive Program: Design One That Produces

What is a partner incentive program? Short answer: A partner incentive program is the set of rewards, tiers, and payout rules a vendor uses to pay partners for the behaviors that produce revenue. It works when it pays for the specific actions that lead to pipeline, and it fails when it pays for signings, logos, […]

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Partner Enablement Best Practices That Drive Revenue

What are partner enablement best practices? Short answer: Partner enablement best practices are the methods that get a partner ready to sell a real deal, not just to pass a course. They tie every asset, session, and certification to a named opportunity and measure success by partner-sourced pipeline rather than completion rates. The test is […]

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OEM Partner: What It Means and How the Model Works

What is an OEM partner? Short answer: An oem partner is a company that embeds another company’s product into its own offering and sells the combined result under its own brand. It buys or licenses your technology, wraps it inside a product it already sells, and the end customer often never sees your name. OEM […]

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Partner Engagement: What It Is and How to Build It

What is partner engagement? Short answer: Partner engagement is the degree to which a partner is actively working deals, sharing accounts, and taking joint actions with you, not just present on your roster. It is the difference between a partner who logs into your portal and a partner who is in a live opportunity with […]

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What Does a Channel Manager Do? The Real Answer

What does a channel manager do? Short answer: What a channel manager does is own a set of partners as a revenue channel, so a channel manager recruits the right partners, enables them to sell, runs co-sell with direct AEs, and drives partner-sourced pipeline and revenue. They are a quota-carrying seller whose deals happen through […]

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SaaS Partner Program: How to Build One That Sells

What is a SaaS partner program? Short answer: A saas partner program is the structured system a software company uses to recruit, enable, and co-sell with partners so those partners produce pipeline and revenue. It is not a tier chart or a portal login, it is the operating motion that turns signed partners into selling […]

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What Is a Partner Ecosystem? Definition and How It Works

Short answer Short answer: A partner ecosystem is the network of companies whose products, services, and customer bases surround your own, and whom you can sell with, build with, or sell through. It matters because buyers now assemble their own stacks, so the vendor whose ecosystem is richest and best activated wins more of the […]

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Frequenty Asked Questions
on Forecastable Use Cases

Forecastable’s Managed Services can be utilized to facilitate improved collaboration and execution amongst Account Teams, Partner Teams and Marketers through a number of Use Cases. Please find answers to frequently asked questions about our Use Cases below.
Any Business-to-Business Company that needs to improve collaboration and execution with external or internal teammates.
Forecastable provides a Managed Services offering where Consultants known as Advisors use our SaaS technology either for or with your team members to drive better execution in Accounts and Opportunities across Teams. The Platform has an Open API to integrate with your CRM as well as other third parties such as Crossbeam or Reveal for their Account overlap data.
A Forecastable Advisor is a Fractional Management Level Consultant sourced by Forecastable on a Project. They host and lead recurring meetings to facilitate collaboration & execution. They deliver objective and invaluable coaching, guidance and oversight. Sales Admin level resources known as Alignment Specialists work full time to schedule meetings, update information and provide reports.
Users of Forecastable can be either Forecastable’s Advisors and/or your Reps, Partner Managers, CSMs and other related Team members

#1: Sales Reps Co-Selling alongside one or more Partners

#2: Sales Specialist Teams Co-Selling

#3: Partner Recruitment / Expansion Coordination 

#4: Global Account Team Coordination

#5: Enabling Start Up Sales Reps to perform Up Market Selling

#6: Partner Revenue Scale Up for Startups

#7: Market Development Funds Partner Activity Facilitation & Monitoring

Increased earnings from closing more Accounts/Sales. Increased collaboration contributes to more Wins. Project Admin Resource frees up time obtaining Updates / Status Reporting. Ability to share relevant information across CRM Systems. Receive Coaching from an objective 3rd Party Advisor. Better Account/Opportunity/Customer Org visibility across Teams. Increase Skill Level by using Enterprise Selling Workspaces / Coaching. Improved Visibility of Account Overlap. Improved Visibility of Contact Overlap and obtaining warmer Introductions.
Users of Forecastable can be either Forecastable’s Advisors and/or your Reps, Partner Managers, CSMs and other related Team members.

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