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Open territories
Looking Ahead: Should We Make a Change?
Sales Compensation Focus, July 2010 – The economy appears to have taken a positive turn and many companies are starting to think about growth: hiring more sales reps, launching a new product, or breaking into a new market segment. One of the first questions that is raised when a company returns to growth mode, especially if there has been significant retrenching, is, “What should we do with our sales compensation plans?”
What is considered “best practice” in how we would recognize and reward sales managers for covering open districts?
For sales managers who are expected to keep their territories fully covered, maintaining a pipeline of candidates and connections, it makes sense to expect them to continue to produce sales out of an open territory…