It shows a graph of your sales forecast for the year by quarter

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If you want to quickly start forecasting your sales using the Pipeline Forecasting method, we've created a free template for Excel and Google Sheets.

You can download the free template here . No email address asked.


You can use this free Excel & Google Sheets template to forecast your sales
Some of its main features:

You can adapt the step and afghanistan cell phone number list its probabilities to dynamically adjust your forecasts.
You can even track your sales pipeline within the template, tracking company names, contact details, last interactions, next steps, and more.
Here's a video tutorial that explains what it does and how you can use it:


This 5-minute video will walk you through every detail of the sales forecasting template
Of course, while this spreadsheet template can provide a high-level view of your sales pipeline and calculate a real-time sales forecast based on that, it won't really help your sales team with their sales tracking, making it less likely that it will stay fully up-to-date.

Additionally, it doesn't integrate with your inbox or LinkedIn , send email sequences, track emails , send live notifications and reminders, keep historical updates, track activity metrics, ...

That's why specialized sales CRM software tools like Salesflare exist.

Sales Forecasting Using Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Software Like Salesflare
While there are many sales forecasting software out there, the main bottleneck for sales forecasting to work is getting the necessary data from the sales team.

If your salespeople aren't diligently updating the CRM, your sales forecasts are based on outdated or partial data and are likely to be highly inaccurate.

That's why you need a system in which they'll actually track their sales, plus that has built-in live and automated sales forecasting abilities, like Salesflare .

I showed above, in the section dedicated to the "Pipeline Forecasting Method", what such a sales forecast report looks like in Salesflare.