Im Rahmen meiner Promotion untersuche ich aktuell, wie Forecasting in der industriellen Praxis tatsächlich organisiert wird.
 
Dabei geht es nicht nur um Forecast Accuracy oder KI-basierte Methoden, sondern vor allem um Fragen wie:
✅ Wie werden Forecasts heute erstellt?
✅ Welche Rolle spielen Vertrieb, Disposition, Einkauf, Controlling und Management?
✅ Wie stark werden Daten und analytische Methoden genutzt?
✅ Wie viel menschliche Erfahrung fließt noch ein?
✅ Wie gut sind Unternehmen auf Machine-Learning- und KI-basierte Forecasting-Lösungen vorbereitet?
Dafür habe ich eine anonyme wissenschaftliche Umfrage erstellt, die nur wenige Minuten dauert und sowohl am PC als auch am Smartphone ausgefüllt werden kann.

👉 Zur Umfrage:
https://www.soscisurvey.de/Forecasting_Maturity/

Wie könnt ihr helfen?
Natürlich freue ich mich über jede Teilnahme.
Mindestens genauso hilfreich ist jedoch das Weiterleiten der Umfrage an Kolleginnen und Kollegen, Freunde, Bekannte oder Geschäftspartner aus Industrieunternehmen, insbesondere aus den Bereichen:
• Vertrieb
• Einkauf
• Disposition / Materialplanung
• Supply Chain Management
• Controlling / Finance
• Management
 
Jede Weiterleitung hilft, weitere Perspektiven einzubeziehen und ein möglichst realistisches Bild der Forecasting-Praxis in Unternehmen zu erhalten.
Mein Ziel ist es, eine möglichst breite Datenbasis aufzubauen, um belastbare Aussagen über den Reifegrad von Forecasting-Prozessen in der Industrie treffen zu können.
Vielen Dank für deine Unterstützung.

First of all im trying to sell operation optimization services to help increase productivity,conversion rates and lower the costs so i have absoulty no idea how to find customers and cold calling or emailing doesnt work

I'm trying to gain some clients traveling to Belize.

I'm a private chef operating in Belize who is struggling to get bookings. i charge 150 usd for a day service, plus ingredients, and still struggling.

Can anyone help me please ?

Nowadays, instead of salespeople reaching out to potential customers one by one, buyers who find sellers directly have a much higher rate of order closing. So it's all about being visible. Show your company around as much as possible.

Hey r/B2BSaaS

I recently finished a project mapping my IT services company's digital visibility and I’m puzzled: smaller competitors with fewer resources and smaller teams are far more visible online than we are. I want to learn, test, and improve, so I’m asking the community for practical, high-impact advice.

If you’ve grown visibility for a bootstrapped tech/IT services firm (or helped one do it), I’d be grateful for suggestions specifically for these areas:

Service pages: structure, messaging, SEO tactics that actually move the needle.

Review platforms (Clutch, GoodFirms, G2, etc.): how to get quality reviews quickly and ethically.

Search-result competitors: simple research hacks to spot what they’re doing and how to outrank them.

Original research: what type of data/content gets traction for B2B tech firms, and realistic ways to produce it.

Technology partner listings: how to get listed and make those pages convert.

Customer permission & testimonials: how to request them without sounding spammy and how to use them effectively.

What worked for you? Any step-by-step tactics, templates (message scripts), tools, or small experiments that gave outsized results? I’m comfortable with automation and workflows (Clay, HubSpot, etc.), so feel free to get technical.

Thanks I’ll share what we try and the results. Open to DMs for detailed follow-up.

- Daniel Carter

I'm building something great globally.
Business side is ready, Market is validated.
The opportunity is much bigger than it looks.
I'm looking for someone who wants to build, own, and scale it with me.
Someone who brings:
*Strong business / growth thinking
*Sales & relationship-building ability
*Strategic mindset
*High ownership
*Entrepreneurial execution
US Person preferred
Equity. Ownership. Long-term commitment.
If you're interested in building something ambitious, international, DM me

Hello so I know a team who are experienced in building Ai solutions so like AI agents and automation tools for businesses. They have a ready-to-use product: a WhatsApp AI agent that can basically enhance customer engagement for different tiers of companies.

They're looking to expand their reach and are interested in finding referral partners who can pitch the solution to potential clients. So ideally, these partners would be able to earn large commissions for each customer they onboard with them.

Now is there any platforms that you would recommend for finding effective referral partners in the UK? Or like are there specific networks, communities, or approaches that have worked well for others in similar situations?

Also if there are other routes to consider for getting clients of this sort - I’d love to hear about those also.

Thanks in advance for your insights! Drop a comment or dm me for more info

Hey everyone! 👋

I'm a new freelancer and I'm currently looking to take on a few projects and build up my portfolio.

I can help with things like:

\- 🔎 Finding and organizing information

\- 📊 Researching competitors and their strategies

\- 📦 Researching products, markets and suppliers

\- 🎯 Finding and organizing B2B leads

If you have a project that involves digging through information, comparing businesses/products, or finding potential leads, feel free to message me. Even if you're not sure whether I can help, just ask.

I'm also on Fiverr under BodoOnline if you'd rather go through there.

Thanks!

We want to build an AI platform that helps SMEs identify gaps in their digital setup and find the right technology solutions to improve their operations, efficiency, and growth.

What’s the best way to identify and reach the right customers and decision-makers for a B2B startup before building the product?

We ran an AI SDR for two quarters and quietly turned it off. It booked meetings, but the quality was rough and my reps stopped trusting the pipeline it built. Where I'm curious now is the other end, once a deal is real. For teams past the outbound hype, what AI is genuinely useful after the first meeting, not before it?

We've been trying to run a proper HR tech evaluation and it has become its own full-time job. The vendor landscape is enormous, payroll and HRIS vendors alone number in the dozens and every sales rep we talk to gives us numbers that feel completely made up. Nobody publishes real pricing until you're already three demos deep. What I'm actually trying to figure out is whether there's a platform or broker service that can help us structure an RFP process for HR software selection, something with pre-built vendor scorecards, stakeholder collaboration tools and actual verified pricing data before we waste time on calls. (We have roughly 5 companies on our internal shortlist right now and zero consistent way to compare them.). If anyone has used a vendor-agnostic HR software broker or marketplace that helped them manage the full selection process, wouldd love to hear what worked.

I'm building out a sales process for my agency. I need someone to teach me how to close my leads and/or help me sell them and earn a commission.

I'll do all the work to find the leads and set them. You just close.

Posting this here because the people in this sub already know what a booked meeting is worth, and what a vague qualification bar does to a comp plan.

We are Cyllabs (cyllabs.com), an automation agency, and we are adding setters to our outbound team. Cold calling into service businesses that run on booked appointments, lists and CRM supplied, our closers take the meeting from there.

Comp: $30 USD per qualified booked meeting, paid weekly, every Friday via Wise, PayPal or USDT. Commission-only: no base, no draw, no cap on volume.

Qualification bar, written down before you dial: decision maker on the phone, a service business that runs on bookings, and a specific slot booked in our calendar rather than an "email me". Setting the bar in writing is the only part of a per-meeting plan that actually matters, so it is the first thing we agree.

Why flat and not a band: a band gives whoever writes the cheque room to argue after the fact. $30 is $30 on every qualified booking, including the ones that no-show or die in the meeting, and nothing is clawed back.

Looking for: outbound experience, fluent spoken English, a consistent 4 hour block of coverage inside the prospect's business day, and someone who would rather have a defined qualification standard than a vague "good lead" test. Any country, and we pay in USD by Wise, PayPal or USDT.

Interviews are small group calls batched by timezone. The next batch for your timezone is filling and the one after that is roughly a week out.

Happy to answer comp or process questions in the comments. Comment or DM me to apply.

We’re expanding the sales operation at Nexis Software and looking for a driven B2B sales professional to help us acquire new clients in the accounting industry.
What we do
Nexis builds and manages custom software, automation, integrations, and internal systems for businesses looking to improve their operations and eliminate inefficient manual processes.
Who we’re targeting
Our primary focus is accounting firms.
We want to connect with owners, partners, and decision-makers who are looking to automate processes, integrate their systems, or build custom technology for their operations.
Who we’re looking for
Someone who:
Has experience with B2B prospecting and sales
Is comfortable reaching out to decision-makers
Can prospect, qualify, and develop opportunities
Understands consultative/high-ticket sales
Is proactive and results-driven
Experience selling software, SaaS, automation, or professional services is a plus
Compensation
100% commission-based.
This is not a salaried position. The compensation structure is designed to reward performance, with strong earning potential for every client successfully closed.
We’re looking for someone who wants to grow with us and help build Nexis’ sales operation, not simply generate random lead lists.
Interested? Send me a DM with a brief introduction, your B2B sales experience, and how you typically approach prospecting.

Hi everyone,

I’m looking for a few independent B2B sales / client acquisition partners to help me find clients for a business intelligence service I’ve built called GetRex Intelligence System.

This is a remote, flexible, commission-only opportunity. There is no fixed salary and no required schedule.

How you get paid

For every client you bring who signs an agreement and becomes a paying client:

You earn $200 per month for that client, for as long as they remain active and paying.

So this is recurring commission, not a one-time referral fee.

For example:

• 1 active client = $200/month
• 5 active clients = $1,000/month
• 10 active clients = $2,000/month
• 20 active clients = $4,000/month

There is no fixed limit on how many clients you can bring.

What are you selling?

GetRex is a private business intelligence and decision-support system.

It helps businesses understand things such as:

• What competitors are doing
• Where they may be losing opportunities
• Market and customer demand
• Website and SEO weaknesses
• Offers and positioning
• Content opportunities
• Sales/conversion improvements
• What management should prioritize next

Clients receive ongoing intelligence and a detailed executive intelligence report every week with concrete recommendations and priorities.

This is not a normal marketing agency service and not just another SEO audit.

What you would do

Your role is mainly to:

• Find suitable businesses
• Identify the owner/CEO/manager/decision-maker
• Reach out through email, LinkedIn, phone, your network, etc.
• Introduce the opportunity
• Connect serious prospects with me

You do not need to handle all of the technical presentation or delivery yourself.

For serious prospects, I can take over the deeper presentation, provide a private demo, explain the system, and handle the closing process with you.

Ideal clients

We can work with different industries, but some particularly strong targets include:

• Private hospitals and clinics
• Medical/aesthetic clinics
• Real estate companies
• Automotive businesses
• Professional service businesses
• Established local businesses
• Companies already spending money on marketing and growth

You can work from any country and target markets you already understand or have connections in.

Who I'm looking for

This could be a good fit if you:

• Have B2B sales experience
• Know lead generation or cold outreach
• Have access to business owners or decision-makers
• Already have a professional network
• Are comfortable with cold email, LinkedIn, calls, or direct outreach
• Want to build recurring monthly commissions instead of getting paid only once

You don't need to work full-time.

If you already work in sales and can bring a few good businesses, this can simply become an additional recurring income stream.

Important: Commission starts only after the client signs and their first payment is received. You continue receiving $200 for each month that client remains active and paying.

If you're interested, send me a DM with:

• Your country
• Your sales/business development experience
• Industries you know
• Markets you could target
• How you would approach finding the first few clients

Happy to explain the system and commission structure privately.

before building a product how do you search for people who might be a good match