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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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MSP Partner: What It Is and How to Build One

Short answer Short answer: An MSP partner is a managed service provider that folds your product into the services it delivers and manages for its customers, usually on a recurring contract. It matters because MSPs own long, sticky relationships with the exact buyers many vendors struggle to reach, and they sell on recurring revenue rather […]

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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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Channel Revenue Management: The Operating Playbook

Short answer Short answer: Channel revenue management is the discipline of running partner and channel revenue as a governed, forecastable line of the business, covering deal registration, attribution, incentives, forecasting, and reporting. It matters because partner revenue is now too large to run on goodwill and spreadsheets, and finance treats it like any other number […]

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Channel Optimization: A Playbook for Partner Revenue

Short answer Short answer: Channel optimization is the work of concentrating partner effort, budget, and attention on the partners and accounts that actually produce revenue, and pulling those resources back from the ones that do not. It matters because most channel programs spread themselves thin across a long list of signed partners and mistake activity […]

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Channel Conflict: What Causes It and How to Fix It

What channel conflict is Short answer: Channel conflict is what happens when your direct sales team and your partners, or two of your partners, compete for the same customer or the same deal. It matters because the damage is rarely the one lost deal, it is the trust you lose with the partner who watched […]

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Channel Partner Agreement: What to Put In One

What a channel partner agreement is Short answer: A channel partner agreement is the contract that defines how you and a partner sell together, covering who does what, how money moves, and what happens when a deal is contested. It matters because most partner disputes trace back to a term that was never written down, […]

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Channel Partner Incentive Program: How to Design One

What a channel partner incentive program is Short answer: A channel partner incentive program is the structured set of rewards, margins, rebates, and funds you use to motivate partners to source, register, and close deals. It matters because partners direct their effort toward whatever you actually pay for, so a poorly designed incentive quietly buys […]

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Channel Partner Management Best Practices

What channel partner management is Short answer: Channel partner management is the ongoing work of recruiting, enabling, and holding partners accountable so they produce revenue, not just goodwill. It matters because most programs manage partners by relationship warmth and then wonder why the pipeline is flat. The best practices below all share one idea: run […]

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Channel Partner Training Platform: How to Choose

What a channel partner training platform is Short answer: A channel partner training platform is the software you use to onboard, train, and certify partners so they can represent and sell your product correctly. It matters because an untrained partner is worse than no partner, since they pitch you wrong in front of customers you […]

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How to Build a Channel Partner Program

What building a channel partner program means Short answer: Building a channel partner program means designing the motion, economics, enablement, and measurement that let partners reliably source and close revenue with you. It matters because most programs get built backwards, starting with partner recruitment and a logo wall before anyone has defined what a partner […]

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Reseller Program: What It Is and How to Build One

Short answer Short answer: A reseller program is the structure that lets partners buy or sell your product for a margin and take it to their own customers under a defined agreement. It matters because resellers can carry your product into markets and accounts your direct team never reaches, but a reseller program only produces […]

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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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