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BowtiedCocoon: Top SaaS SMB AEs have $125k OTEs. But The Best Ones Make $261k.

SaaStr

Per LinkedIn data, SMB AEs at some of the top SaaS and B2B companies have: an average base salary of $70k, an average OTE of $125k, and. Sales Organization 1 Miro 2 Okta 3 Arctic Wolf 4 Sprout Social 5 Google 6 Clickup 7 Cisco Meraki 8 Microsoft 9 Klaviyo 10 AWS 11 Rippling 12 Fivetran. And it’s super helpful.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Outreach and OverView — December 20, 2019

SaaStr

Befofe that Manny was a Senior Product Manager @ Amazon where he engineered the compensation system for Amazon Associates and Web-Services which accounts for 15% of Amazon’s traffic. And PTC is sort of the source of some of the greatest sales minds of this age as, at least in B2B SaaS. So one is more relevant than the other.

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PODCAST 135: Pushing Through the Zone of Discomfort Towards Personal Growth with AJ Bruno

Sales Hacker

What’s broken with compensation plans? [26:28]. AJ Bruno: QuotaPath is a dead simple sales compensation tool for sales teams, for ops, for finance, anyone that’s ever struggled with comp plans, struggled with the ins and outs, explaining it, what if I close these deals, we built a tool for you. They’re awful.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week: May 3, 2019

SaaStr

Before that Manny was a Senior Product Manager @ Amazon where he engineered the compensation system for Amazon Associates and Web-Services which accounts for 15% of Amazon’s traffic. In this session, Sandy Carter, AWS Vice President will hone your superpower – not of customer focus, or customer driven, but customer obsessed.

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The Art of Ensuring Customer Success During Mergers and Acquisitions

SmartKarrot

Have a consistent compensation model for customer success teams. Various compensation models can present a related challenge. To see how SmartKarrot helps B2B companies streamline and scale customer success, Request a Demo. It is crucial to start by getting to know your new customer success team. Read on to know.

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The SaaS Debate: Who Owns the Renewal and Upsell? Customer Success vs. Sales

ChurnZero

Why would we replicate that awful and uncomfortable experience we have in the B2C world with our B2B buyers? Both the CSM and SE are compensated on the sale, so it’s a team-based approach.”. They sit down and start scribbling down payments and interest rates in a two-by-two square. How does that make you feel?

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Simple Frameworks For Success (Full Video + Success)

OnStartups

And then what I would do if I were an enterprising VC is I was like, okay, let's pick the categories where this thing will have the biggest impact, like business intelligence, reporting kind of stuff, B2B software is a natural fit. It's like, okay, you've got an AWS instance somewhere that's costing you. Make it do what I want.