sales compensation
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Get Sales Compensation Right to Recruit Winning Salespeople
- August 13, 2013
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
Sales candidates, especially good ones, are exponentially more difficult to attract than they were just two years ago. We regularly observe clients struggling when it comes to getting resumes from quality candidates. One of the reasons is compensation.
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Sales Incentives, Awards, Lead Follow-Up and Sales Effectiveness
- December 19, 2012
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
In the case of appointment setters, as in the email above, training them to be more effective with the appointment-setting conversation will pay dividends too. Not only will the appointments be more qualified, there will actually be more, better-qualified appointments!
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A Different Look at Sales Compensation
- April 6, 2012
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
With a salaried position, salespeople are essentially on a fixed income – perhaps a more attractive fixed income than a retiree, but fixed none the less. And these days, with most people living at or above their means, fixed simply becomes another word for broke! The thought of coming up with $75,000 in discretionary funds is daunting unless a salesperson is the rare exception who has been squirreling away most of his income. This is the world of the salaried salesperson. Play it safe, but don’t expect any big commission checks.
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Tenure – Could it Possibly Be a Good Thing for your Sales Force?
- July 25, 2011
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
It’s good when people feel positive about their situation, allowing them to perform their most brilliant work. It’s bad when their sense of permanence causes them to do as little as possible. It’s good when it makes the company appear stable to those prospective companies who would consider doing business with you. It’s bad when their sense of entitlement causes them to believe that the work that must be done is now beneath them. And so goes the tenure argument.
What about tenure with salespeople?
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Top 7 Sales Force Compensation Secrets
- February 28, 2011
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
A reader asked an interesting question about the relationship between sales assessment performance and income.
“If someone does well on the assessment but never earned more than $100,000, should that set off some red flags since $100,000 is the high water mark of sales success?”
It’s a great question.
Sales income is all relative.
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When it Comes to Compensation Sales is Not Like Baseball
- December 9, 2010
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
The other day a client asked whether salespeople can make the jump from earning $85K to a position that could pay them $150K.
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NY Times Articles Hits Then Misses the Mark on Sales
- November 18, 2010
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
Compensation is tricky and one size never fits all.
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Sales Force Compensation – X Marks the Spot
- July 15, 2010
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
Compensation is usually simpler than most companies make it. Most companies seem to either over compensate or under compensate on salary. Most companies tend to do the same with commissions.
There are three key points in time with compensation. They are:
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But I’m a Sales Guy! The Story of Motivation and Compensation
- June 7, 2010
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
A Sales VP and his CEO were in the conference room and each time the CEO brought up a problem, we asked the Sales VP to elaborate. Each time he began with, “Well I’m a sales guy so I know this stuff…”
Yes and No.
Yes, he’s a sales guy. But no, he doesn’t know this stuff. If he knew this stuff the problems and challenges in their organization wouldn’t exist and the two of them wouldn’t be sitting in front of us in the conference room. This isn’t at all unusual either.
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What We Think about Sales Motivation is All Wrong
- September 16, 2009
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
Arno was kind enough to point my attention to this great video presentation from Dan Pink on the science of motivation.
Dan uses science, examples and case histories to tell us that almost everything we thought about motivation is wrong….or is it?
He never mentioned sales, selling, the sales force and salespeople specifically, but we do know that he said this: