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Qualification frameworks applied

Tell someone how to act on this idea. "A qualification framework turns gut feel into a defensible forecast."

Expect a sales leader to hand you a deal and watch how you reason about it. Saying "strong champion, good vibes" is weaker than naming exactly what you know, what you don't and what the missing piece means for the forecast.

A qualification framework turns gut feel into a defensible forecast. Use the letters as a checklist for risk. Each gap is a reason a deal might slip or die, and naming the gap tells you where to spend the week.

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Which Gaps Kill a Deal

WHICH GAPS KILL A DEAL

Economic buyer: If you've never met who controls the budget, you're forecasting a deal its decision-maker doesn't know exists. No economic buyer means not real. Get the intro or downgrade the stage.

diagram: signal-bars

Not every MEDDPICC letter carries the same risk. These are the gaps that move the forecast most, with Decision criteria graded together with Decision process.

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QWhat does the extra P in MEDDPICC add that plain MEDDICC leaves implicit?

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