A Sales Growth Company Logo

Gap Selling Resources Articles

Buyer Input Data (BID): Definition and Quantification

Buyer Input Data (BID) is the specific, buyer-verified intelligence that proves the cost of a buyer's inaction is greater than the cost of taking action: a quantified number, in the buyer's own words, confirmed by the buyer, sitting in a structured CRM field rather...

Best Case, Worst Case, Most Likely Forecasting: The Limits

Best case, worst case, most likely forecasting is one forecast, built on the same rep-confidence inputs, presented three times at three different levels of optimism. The three columns don't measure anything different about the pipeline. They just give leadership a...

The 5 C’s: Sales Forecast Close Rates by Buyer State

An accurate sales forecast requires testing five specific conditions confirmed by the buyer directly: Clarity, Control, Consensus, Commitment, and Competition. Deals verified on all five close at roughly 80%. Deals verified on four close at roughly 55%. Deals verified...

Sales Enablement Operating System: The PCOS Framework

Sales-training spend maps cleanly across two axes: how rigorously an organization diagnoses the buyer's problem, and how rigorously it reinforces what a rep learned once training ends. The map produces six categories of spend. Five are crowded: generic workshops,...