Excel for Sales Professionals

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Free Online Course: Excel for Sales Professionals provided by LinkedIn Learning is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 2-3 hours worth of material. The course is taught in English and is free of charge. Upon completion of the course, you can receive an e-certificate from LinkedIn Learning. Excel for Sales Professionals is taught by Dave Ludwig and Chris B. Smith.

Overview
  • Learn essential features, best practices, and strategies to track, analyze, and forecast sales.

Syllabus
  • Introduction

    • Welcome
    • How to use the exercise files
    1. Getting Started with Templates
    • Get started with a template
    • Modify a template and chart
    • Add a drop-down list
    • Share a template with your team
    2. Importing Sales Data
    • Import data from a database
    • Import data from a CRM
    • Import data from a file
    • Cleaning up columns
    • Import data from many files
    • Query refresh options
    • Copy and pasting data
    • Cleaning up pasted data
    3. Working with Tables
    • What is a table?
    • Sort and filter
    • Slicers
    • Automatic rows and columns
    • Add a dynamic commission calculation
    4. Analyzing Sales Data
    • Conditional formatting
    • PivotTables
    • Unpacking PivotTables
    • Create a leaderboard
    • Leaderboard finishing touches
    • PivotCharts
    • Funnel charts
    • Quick forecasting
    • 3D maps
    5. Build Awesome Sales Solutions
    • Multi-tier PivotTables
    • Create monthly and yearly summaries
    • Create period over period summaries
    • Create reports for multiple sales reps
    • Start a dashboard with existing PivotTables
    • Add PivotCharts to a dashboard
    • Add a map chart
    • Add a chart with a running total
    Conclusion
    • Summary