What Is a Sales Forecast?

What is a sales forecast? A sales forecast is an expression of expected sales revenue. A sales forecast estimates how much your company plans to sell within a certain time period (like quarter or year). The best sales forecasts do this with a high degree of accuracy.

What is meant by a sales forecast?

Sales forecasting is the process of estimating future revenue by predicting the amount of product or services a sales unit (which can be an individual salesperson, a sales team, or a company) will sell in the next week, month, quarter, or year.

What is a sales forecast example?

For example, you may know that your business typically grows at 15% year over year and that you closed $100k of new business this month last year. That would lead you to forecast $115,000 of revenue this month.

Maya Lin-Takahashi

Maya Lin-Takahashi

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Maya is a hardware enthusiast who tests and reviews smart home devices, smartphones, wearables, and audio gear. She focuses on practical consumer value and build quality.