Nearbound Marketing: What It Is and How It Works
Demand generation that runs through partners by borrowing their trust, measured as pipeline.
Forecastable Blog
Forecastable's Education Center -- The best advice on building partner programs that produce forecastable revenue.
Latest Post
Categories
All Account Mapping (11) AI in Partnerships (9) B2B Sales Foundations (24) Co-Selling (30) Ecosystem-Led Growth & Nearbound (9) Partner Attribution & Reporting (12) Partner Enablement & Onboarding (7) Partner Marketing (7) Partner Programs (16) Partner Tech & PRM (17) Partnerships Forecasting (13) Partnerships Roles & Hiring (22) Partnerships Strategy & Leadership (40) Uncategorized (1)Latest Post
Alex Buckles Partnerships POV: 5 Operating Rules
For broader industry context, see Partnership Leaders’ practitioner community. What Does Alex Buckles Think About Partnerships? Short answer: Alex Buckles’ partnerships work is grounded in one operating belief, partnerships is a measurable system, not a relationship motion. I run Forecastable, an independent third-party professional services firm that designs partner-led GTM systems for B2B SaaS companies, […]
Read Article
Editor's Picks
MDF Programs That Generate Real Pipeline (Not Just Activity)
Short answer: most MDF (Market Development Funds) programs in B2B SaaS waste 50 to 70 percent of their budget. The cause is structural, not size. MDF gets framed too narrowly as marketing money. It then goes to partners who will not run the activity that drives pipeline. The fix is a defensible MDF program that […]
Joint Demand Generation: How to Run Co-Marketing That Converts
Short answer: joint demand generation campaigns with partners produce 2x to 4x the ROI of solo demand-gen when designed correctly. They produce 0.5x or worse when designed wrong. The difference comes down to four design decisions. You need a shared ICP, a single accountable owner, lead-level attribution, and a structured handoff motion. Get those four […]
Alex Buckles Partnerships POV: 5 Operating Rules
For broader industry context, see Partnership Leaders’ practitioner community. What Does Alex Buckles Think About Partnerships? Short answer: Alex Buckles’ partnerships work is grounded in one operating belief, partnerships is a measurable system, not a relationship motion. I run Forecastable, an independent third-party professional services firm that designs partner-led GTM systems for B2B SaaS companies, […]
Read Article
Always-On Comms: The Partner Cadence That Keeps Mindshare
What are always-on comms? Short answer: Always-on comms is the structured, recurring cadence of brief, value-add 1:1 communications from a vendor’s partner team to named contacts at partner firms. They are not newsletters, not marketing blasts, and not pitch sequences. They run quietly in the background of a partnership and keep mindshare from decaying between […]
Read Article
Building a Partner Program: The 2026 Operating Blueprint
What is building a partner program? Short answer: Building a partner program is the end-to-end exercise of designing and launching a partner-led growth system from zero, with a defined thesis, archetypes, operating model, partner journey, and measurement scoreboard. It is a system-design effort, not a hiring decision. A working partner program has three properties. It […]
Read Article
Partner Sourcing: How to Find the Partners You Need
What is partner sourcing? Short answer: partner sourcing is the deliberate process of identifying, prioritizing, and engaging prospective partners against an ideal partner profile, run like account-based selling rather than inbound waiting. In 2026, the programs that recruit the partners they actually need do partner sourcing as a discipline; the ones that recruit whoever applies […]
Read Article
Ideal Partner Profile: How to Define and Use One
What is an ideal partner profile? Short answer: an ideal partner profile is the explicit definition of the partner type a program is built to recruit, activate, and scale, expressed as a small set of measurable traits rather than a logo wish-list. In 2026, the programs that produce partner-sourced pipeline have a written profile they […]
Read Article
Partner Engagement Strategy: How to Build One That Sticks
What is a partner engagement strategy? Short answer: a partner engagement strategy is the operating plan for how a partnerships team allocates time, content, and investment across its partners to move them from signed to producing. In 2026, the strategies that work are cadence-driven and tier-aware; the ones that fail are campaign-driven and democratic. The […]
Read Article
Partner Sales Execution: From Plan to Closed Deals
What is partner sales execution? Short answer: partner sales execution is the deal-stage discipline that converts a partner plan into closed revenue, the joint pursuit work, deal-registration motion, and weekly forecast inspection that move named opportunities through stages. In 2026, it is the layer where most partner programs leak: the plan looks right and the […]
Read Article
Partner-Led Growth: What It Is and When It Works
What is partner-led growth? Short answer: partner-led growth is a go-to-market motion in which partners produce the majority of new pipeline and revenue, and the company’s direct sales motion is sized around amplifying partner deals rather than running its own primary funnel. In 2026, it is a real and powerful motion for a specific set […]
Read Article
Partner Manager Job Description: What to Include
What is a partner manager job description? Short answer: a partner manager job description is the hiring document that defines the role’s scope, owned outcomes, and operating cadence, written specifically enough to filter candidates accurately and pay the role correctly. In 2026, the JDs that produce strong hires are concrete (name the partner relationship and […]
Read Article
B2B SaaS Partnerships: A Practical Operating Guide
What is b2b saas partnerships? Short answer: b2b saas partnerships is the practice of building and operating partner relationships that produce co-sell pipeline, integration revenue, or marketplace presence for a B2B SaaS company. In 2026, the SaaS partnerships that work as a revenue motion share three traits: an ideal partner profile, attribution discipline, and AE […]
Read Article
