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Why sales cycle length assumptions break down across markets

A report on how buying-process length varies by region, and what that means for forecasting accuracy.

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Forecasts built on a single sales cycle assumption, applied uniformly across every market an organization operates in, consistently underperform in markets where relationship-building and internal buy-in processes extend the typical cycle well beyond the home-market norm.

Organizations that build market-specific cycle assumptions into their forecasting model, rather than a single blended figure, report meaningfully more accurate quarter-to-quarter forecasts across international operations.

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