Consumption-based, usage-based, pay-as-you-go – these are different names for a pricing model that is becoming more and more prevalent in businesses formerly dominated by committed subscriptions. Customers like it, businesses see good reason to do, but it’s not easy to get the sales comp right. Click through for great ideas from the Sales Comp ’23 conference.
Linearity is steady selling through a year, or a quarter, or even a month. It matters to many businesses, and so many try to incentivize it in their plans. Click through for a collection of all the best ideas to help your team sell more earlier, and more steadily all year.
(30:00) Donya Rose was interviewed by Alex Adamson on behalf of Bowery Capital. In this 30 minute podcast, Donya walks us through the do’s and don’ts of building rewarding and sustainable sales compensation plans for SaaS businesses.
Over the years we have interviewed hundreds of senior business leaders about their need for better sales compensation plans, and 100% of them have listed plan simplicity as a key characteristic of a better plan. If it’s a top priority for everyone, why is it so elusive?
(54 mins) Learn about a new plan construct we’re calling a Relative Rate plan. In this construct, we don’t start with weights. We start with the idea that sales in a preferred category should pay out at a high commission rate than “vanilla” sales, and we directly manage the relative values of the commission rates rather than the weight for each stand-alone component.