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One of the most common and significant topics during sales compensation design engagements focuses on the right mechanic to use – whether to use a Cost of Sales or Cost of Labor model.
One of the most common questions we receive from software organizations today is how the sales compensation program can support the strategic evolution from traditional licenses to subscription-based (SaaS) models. Wall Street and company valuation methodologies all seem to reward…
In a typical sales organization, sales reps can be categorized as A players (stars), B players (good/decent), and C players (poor). We often find a normal talent distribution with 20% in group A, 60% in the group B, and 20%…
In our consulting engagements, assessing and designing plans with the right acceleration rates to reward those who beat quotas is always an essential and hotly debated topic. Upside is often the fire that drives superior performance, and the best salespeople…
Threshold usage varies by role, sales strategy, and how results occur. As noted, for high run-rate account management roles, thresholds can make sense as a large portion of revenue can often flow with little real effort. Using a dollar one…