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Annual Planning Prep Guide for 2025 Sales

Our Guide for Starting to Plan 2025 Sales is designed to help you and your team get a head start for prepping for the next year.

Ilkka - Club President

Sep 15, 2024 — 2 min read

At GTM Club, we know that preparing for next year’s planning and budgeting can be a burden. To simplify this process, we’ve created a template to help you prepare for initial rounds of discussions and planning.

This prepping template includes a series of questions that cover key areas like recapping current strategic priorities and progress, evaluating your sales pipeline and forecast, and estimating upcoming changes in the market. While this is not a complete guide for making a sales plan for 2025, our questions will jolt your brain to think ahead so you get started towards a plan for the upcoming year.

Our template (in Google Docs) is free for all GTM Club members. Grab your copy today and prepare for that meeting invite, email, or Teams message that will act as a starting point for annual budgeting and planning!

How to Access the Template

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