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A great predictable sales forecast is what every company desires to have to help them make solid business decisions. However great predictable sales forecasts can be highly elusive and difficult to get. There's often a very big difference between what the sales team says they'll bring in and what they actually land up bringing in.

Having an correct picture of your business will allow you to run your business smoothly and to maximize your sales. If you manage your sales funnel you can estimate your probability of revenue for a certain period of time. Some do very well at managing their sales funnels.

Do not confuse a sales forecast with a sales funnel - they are a lot different. Your sales forecast gets the buying cycle of your customer in relation to your business and then predicts your sales. Your sales funnel examines the what are your business potential sales in your income stream. It then calculates the likelihood that there are enough deals moving in the direction of closing to ensure revenue flow for a specified period of time.

A great sales funnel is a great online and offline indicator of your long-term business and sales health. It's important to keep all the deals in your pipeline moving forward. Be sure you build a system where your data is constantly reviewed. You should be collecting data like these to help you:
* The number of current deals
* The number of deals necessary to make a sale
* Cost of each sale
* Size of each deal
* How much time is necessary to close a deal
* How you use the resources

Next you will need to review the relationship between you and the prospects:
* Customer support
* Best practices for your sales process at eachstage
* How to make decisions
* Prospect qualification

Sales funnels come in a variety of shapes and sizes. Each funnel have a number of steps that the prospects need to go through. Some of those opportunities are for a short period but far reaching, while others take place on a log period of time but only a few deals finding their way into the flow. There is no sales funnel that doesn't have at least a few holes. This mean the opportunity makes its way into the sales funnel but doesn't generate a sale. The key is having good opportunities that will make it from start to close.

It's important for you to have plenty of deals in each stage of the funnel so that the next stage remains filled as it filters through. This can ensure you have a steady flow of deals in the sales funnel rather than trying to rebound from the feast or famine syndrome.