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Crisis Sales Compensation Plan
The Covid Crisis Is Not Just a Healthcare Crisis.It is a serious business crisis as all of you know by now. The masks and gloves won't protect you from losing your most valuable assets (your sales team) during this chaotic time. You need to be proactive in heading that off at the pass with a Crisis Sales Compensation [...]
#1 Challenge in 2020 for Bay Area Employers: Attracting and Retaining Quality Employees
How do you find – and keep – the right people for your team? According to bay area staffing company Nelson Recruiting’s 2020 Advisor & Salary Guide, this is top of mind for most bay area employers, especially with unemployment at record lows of 2.9% to under 2% in some counties. This annual survey was [...]
New Tax Laws May Impact Corporate Travel & Expense Policies For Sales Reps
New Tax Laws Takes Away Deduction for Entertainment.. Good friend and consulting CFO, Rolf Neuweiler of a2zCFO is our guest blogger this month with a great post on the new tax law and one of our favorite benefits of being an outside sales rep, Customer Entertainment. From Rolf's post we can say goodbye [...]
Turnover Is a Costly Problem for Sales Managers
Steve LePatner’s insights on employee turnover are spot on. The impact on the organization can be especially costly for sales organizations for several reasons: Loss of revenue is an immediate and certain issue when you lose salespeople Recruiting and hiring new sales talent often takes longer than other positions Disruption of customer relationships, often the [...]
Is Your Sales Compensation Competitive?-Part IV of a V Part Series on Compensation
It should come as no surprise to you that sales compensation varies widely by both geography and industry. The general rule is the more complex, and the more expensive the product, the more you must pay people to sell it. The same may be true even if your product is not so complex, but hard [...]
A New Year Is Always The Time For Sales Comp Plan Reviews
Your business plan is hopefully changing with growth goals already set and it is the perfect time to make sure your comp plans are aligned with the New Year company strategy. Many companies get in the habit of forgetting to review this critical component of their business toolset and do not make the tweaks to [...]