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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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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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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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Scaling a Partner Program: What Actually Has to Change

What is scaling a partner program? Short answer: Scaling a partner program is the work of growing partner-sourced revenue faster than the headcount and effort you add to produce it, by turning a few repeatable wins into a system that does not depend on any single person. It is an operating problem, not a recruiting […]

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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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Tech Partners vs Business Partners: The Real Split

What is the tech partners vs business partners distinction? Short answer: Tech partners vs business partners is the difference between partners who create value through product integration and partners who create value through services, relationships, and reach. It separates the company whose software connects to yours from the firm that sells, implements, or advises customers […]

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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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A partnerships leader and a sales director diagnosing a stalled co-sell program at a wall monitor showing a flat partner-pipeline chart, a printed motion map on the table, deep navy and warm amber palette

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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Why Does Co-Selling Fail? The Human Reasons It Breaks

What does why does co-selling fail mean? Short answer: Why does co-selling fail is, at the level reps actually experience, a question about the human moments between two sellers, the slow handoff, the unbuilt trust, the credit that never gets shared, where joint deals quietly break even when the program looks well-designed on paper. It […]

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ZINFI Alternatives: PRM Platforms Worth Comparing

What are ZINFI alternatives? Short answer: ZINFI alternatives are the other partner relationship management platforms a team evaluates when ZINFI is not the right fit, ranging from full-suite PRM systems to lighter, CRM-native tools that handle deal registration and partner enablement without the weight of a full platform. They differ less in feature checklists than […]

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Working With Partner Sales Teams: The Operating Rules

What is working with partner sales teams? Short answer: Working with partner sales teams is the day-to-day practice of getting another company’s sellers to spend their limited selling time on deals where you help them win, by being useful to their number rather than asking them to carry yours. It is a relationship measured in […]

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Ecosystem Map Template: How to Build Yours

Short answer Short answer: An ecosystem map template is a structured layout that plots your partners by type and overlays where they share accounts with you, so you can see your whole partner landscape and decide where to act. It matters because most teams carry the ecosystem in their heads or in scattered spreadsheets, which […]

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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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