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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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Partner Multithreading Tracking in Co-Sell Deals

What is partner multithreading? Short answer: Partner multithreading is having more than one real relationship engaged on both sides of a co-sell deal, on your side, the partner’s side, and inside the customer. Tracking it means counting those threads on each deal so you can see which co-sells rest on a single person. It matters […]

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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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Co-Sell Training: Teaching Reps to Sell With Partners

What is co-sell training? Short answer: Co-sell training is how a company teaches its reps to run joint deals with partners, the pitch, the workflow, and the handoffs that a co-sell motion requires. It exists to turn a co-sell strategy into rep behavior, so the motion runs in the field rather than living in a […]

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How to Co-Sell: A Step-by-Step Guide for Reps

What is co-selling? Short answer: How to co-sell comes down to four steps: find the accounts you and a partner both have reason to work, agree who does what, run the joint deal, and settle credit before close. It is two companies working one account together so the combined motion closes faster than either would […]

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How to Get Sales Team to Co-Sell, Step by Step

What does getting a sales team to co-sell mean? Short answer: How to get sales team to co-sell reduces to one rule: make the partner the easy path on accounts reps already work. They adopt a partner when it shortens their next close, not when they are told partners matter, so engineer that on real […]

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How to Get Warm Intros at Partners, Reliably

What is a warm intro from a partner? Short answer: How to get warm intros at partners comes down to making the introduction effortless, hand the partner a specific account, a ready-to-send note, and a clear benefit to their customer. They give intros reliably only when saying yes costs them almost nothing. A warm intro […]

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How to Scale Co-Selling Without Losing the Motion

What does scaling co-selling mean? Short answer: How to scale co-selling means turning a motion that works with a few partners into one that works across many, by standardizing the play, tiering the partners, and instrumenting the pipeline. It is the shift from co-selling that depends on a few strong relationships to co-selling that runs […]

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Co-Selling Solutions for SaaS Companies: How to Choose

What are co-selling solutions for SaaS companies? Short answer: Co-selling solutions for SaaS companies are the services, frameworks, and software that help a software business sell jointly with its partners, spanning advisory help that designs the motion, frameworks that make it repeatable, and tooling that makes partner deals visible in the CRM. They are not […]

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A RevOps admin and a partner manager configuring a co-sell pipeline in HubSpot on a shared monitor, a printed field map and deal-stage list on the desk, deep navy and warm amber palette

Set Up HubSpot for Co-Sell: A Working Configuration

What does it take to set up HubSpot for co-sell? Short answer: To set up HubSpot for co-sell means configuring the CRM so partner involvement in a deal is captured, attributable, and actionable, through partner fields, a clear deal stage for co-sell, and routing that loops the right partner in. It is less about new […]

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What Is Executive Alignment in Partnerships?

What is executive alignment? Short answer: Executive alignment is a shared, resourced commitment between the senior leaders of two partnering companies to a specific joint outcome, with each side putting real people, budget, and accountability behind it. It is the difference between two leaders who like each other and two leaderships who have agreed on […]

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Co-Sell Frameworks for Ecosystem Teams: What to Trust

What are co-sell frameworks for ecosystem teams? Short answer: Co-sell frameworks for ecosystem teams are documented, repeatable models that define how partners and a vendor sell together, covering who owns the customer, how deals are registered and tracked, and what each side does at every stage. A trustworthy one is judged not by how polished […]

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Why Co-Sell Fails: The Structural Reasons It Stalls

What is meant by why co-sell fails? Short answer: Why co-sell fails is a question about structure more than effort, because most co-sell programs stall on design flaws, no defined motion, no clear ownership, no attribution, rather than on people not trying hard enough. It points to the systemic reasons a joint-selling program produces meetings […]

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What Is an ISV Partner? Definition and How They Work

Short answer Short answer: An ISV partner is an independent software vendor that builds on, integrates with, or sells alongside a larger platform, so the two products work together for shared customers. It matters because ISV partnerships extend a platform’s capabilities and give the software vendor warm access to the platform’s customer base, which is […]

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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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