(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.
It’s usually important to have the sales executive measured similarly to their sales team. So if the sales team’s primary measure is Revenue, then the sales executive should also have significant variable pay based on Revenue. But it’s also reasonable to hold the sales executive accountable for measures directly influenced by…
(15:20) Donya Rose was interviewed by David Johnston on behalf of the Canadian Professional Sales Association. In this 15 minute podcast, Donya provides helpful tips and best practices on a number of topics across sales compensation plan design.
A sales compensation design effort yields results in three areas: revenue increase, margin improvement, cost of compensation in relation to sales productivity. Be sure you know why you are changing your plans and what you hope to accomplish, and your plan design will be much more likely to yield improved results.
We have two sales VPs with remarkably different team revenue quotas. One at $12MM/yr, the other at $20MM. To date we have targeted the same variable comp for each…