Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Scott Barton, Varicent’s VP of Industry Solutions & 20-year sales compensation industry pro, attended WorldatWork’s 2022 Sales Compensation Conference. Despite these advances, few industry pros currently use predictive or prescriptive analytics for determining sales compensation plan effectiveness. Is change in the air?

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Totango

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

There is no one-size-fits-all formula for designing customer success compensation plans. Each company is unique and has different goals and KPIs in place that affect CSM compensation structures. In order to drive the business outcomes you want, it’s important to properly incentivize the right behaviors for your team.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Compensation plans exist to help your business reach its goals. With all the changes happening in today’s economic climate, it’s hard to make sure your plans stay on track. So, where do you begin?

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 19, 2022

In this article, I’ll outline the principles of compensation design , how to build sales compensation plans , and include resources to set OTEs and quotas that keep your reps happy and hungry for more. Bravado’s 2022 State of Sales Compensation Guide showed that 54 percent of reps missed their quota.

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ChurnZero

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

There are several different models of compensation plans , but not all can be guaranteed to produce the same results for your organization. We’ve found that, when looking to build a strong team of Customer Success Managers (CSMs), an incentive compensation plan , otherwise called a variable compensation plan , produces the best results.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 14, 2023

IMO (and I’m not just saying this as a revenue leader), we should have revenue execs on significantly lower leverage plans so they can make smarter business decisions. had zero variable commission comp at Shopify at it was incredibly liberating to be able to make great business decisions without thinking about my comp plan.

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Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

Some businesses employ all four, others just use one or two. The most important goal isn’t price maximization, but just closing some business. As the business transitions from Stage 1 or Stage 2, quite a bit is changing. The ultimate goal of any compensation plan is to ensure account executive success at each stage.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 17, 2020

Hire them immediately, over-compensate them with equity, appreciate them … and most importantly, get out of their way. Most folks will not give you tough advice, and even more importantly, they won’t know you and your business well enough to give the really tough advice. Support them when they make mistakes. Let them run.

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Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 4, 2016

It’s the most provocative idea about employee compensation I’ve found. But, this compensation strategy must be complemented with a plan to reward the exceptions, the 10xers. Employees felt a stronger emotional connection to the company, regarded the business as more thoughtful, and overall employee satisfaction increased.

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ChurnZero

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

There are several different models of compensation plans , but not all can be guaranteed to produce the same results for your organization. We’ve found that, when looking to build a strong team of Customer Success Managers (CSMs), an incentive compensation plan, otherwise called a variable compensation plan, produces the best results.

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Tom Tunguz

JUNE 10, 2015

Compensation structures are one of the most interesting questions facing customer success organizations in software startups. How should customer success leaders structure their team’s compensation in order to align the objectives of individual customer success managers with those of the larger business?

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Tom Tunguz

MAY 12, 2015

He presented the table above which shows the three main responsibilities of customer success team and his team’s time allocation evolving with the needs of the business. In the early years, Hubspot prioritized growth and consequently compensated their sales teams exclusively on new bookings.

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CustomerSuccessBox

JANUARY 10, 2022

Comfortable with business and digital subjects, you help your clients achieve their goals via products/services. You support the customer and maintain the relationship with practical cases that meet their business needs. To help you, you watch over your churn, the proportion of customers lost by your business over a given period.

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Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 11, 2024

The 10x programmer - engineers whose prodigious productivity and perspicacity change the arc of a business. A salesperson who books 10x more business than their next closest peer. They will break quota plans as outliers, drive meaningful change within their organizations, & improve the overall efficiency of their business.

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Tom Tunguz

MARCH 29, 2015

For example, as Mark Roberge, CRO of Hubspot, wrote in The Sales Acceleration Formula , Hubspot adopted three different sales compensation plans throughout its early evolution which embody the three key ingredients of a sales compensation plan. Payout timing is the third component of the sales compensation.

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Tom Tunguz

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

They vote on technical roadmap, compensation, & their own operations, governed by this license & manage a treasury with $3b of assets. 1 The Community Source license is implemented as a Business Source License with the governance clauses mentioned above & some others.

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Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

As a SaaS startup begins to reach critical mass, the business generates more of its revenue from upsells and expansions, reaching about 30% at between $40-75M in revenue, which is in line with some of the models we’ve created. Many times startup teams ask how to compensate a sales team for renewals and upsells.

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Clouded Judgement

JULY 21, 2023

Subscribe now Are Software Companies Bad Businesses? Specifically Chamath said this: “From an OpEx perspective these businesses just suck. If we instead looked at FCF per share (FCF / fully diluted share count), that more accurately gives us a view on overall business health that factors in FCF growth as well as share dilution.

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SaaStr

APRIL 27, 2023

So whether you’re starting out, building your startup, or scaling up to meet the needs of consumers, business, and society, we connect you with the right people, products, and best practices to help you thrive and grow. QuotaPath is the most adaptable compensation solution to bring Sales, RevOps, and Finance all on the same page.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 27, 2023

However, as more workers have left their roles over the past few years and employee expectations shift, it’s important for both job applicants and hiring managers to understand what indicates a winning business. Are they equipped to solve the problem their business addresses? What sort of opportunity is there for business?

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Buffer Resources

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

With a background in the dynamic airline industry, I transitioned into small business ownership ten years ago, where I became intimately involved in marketing tasks. During this time, I stumbled upon search engine optimization (SEO) and recognized its pivotal role in driving business success. 

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 12, 2017

With increasing focus on grit and many claims of meritocracies in organizations across the country, why does variable pay compensation even exist? On top of that, why are sales people some of the few employees subject to variable compensation structures? What is Variable Pay Compensation Anyway? Step 8: Refine and Improve.

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 28, 2013

There’s an interesting phenomemon occurring in founder compensation for post-Series A companies: founding CEOs are swapping cash for larger equity stakes in their companies. Second, founders own more of their businesses at the same stage which means less ultimate dilution should the business raise more capital.

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Buffer Resources

JANUARY 23, 2023

Here are four examples from small businesses and content creators who’re implementing new social media strategies in 2023. Here are how these four small businesses are doing exactly that. She hopes viewers will also have a better understanding of the ins and outs of her small business through these videos.

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SaaStr

APRIL 13, 2023

DevRev is a business software company that brings developers (dev) and customers (rev) together in the era of product-led growth. Domo transforms business by putting data to work for everyone. Make powers over 500,000+ organizations around the globe.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Mistake #3: Not designing a sales compensation plan for PLG. “We We are using the sales compensation models from the 1970s, and these models drive quota-fulfilling behavior.”. In a sales-led compensation plan, the team is rewarded more for the first revenue from a customer and less for the expansion revenue.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Gartner: Business Software Spend Still Forecast to Rise 11.3% SaaStr 603: SaaStr CRO Confidential Presents the Ultimate Guide to Sales Compensation, Quotas and Recruiting with SaaStr CEO and Founder, Jason Lemkin. Go Do More of Them. 5 Interesting Learnings from Paycom at $1.2 Billion in ARR. to $880 Billion in 2023.

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SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2023

Carta is a platform that helps people manage equity, build businesses, and invest in the companies of tomorrow. The company is trusted by more than 30,000 companies, over 5,000 investment funds, and half a million employees for cap table management, compensation management, liquidity venture capital solutions, and more.

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SaaStr

MAY 19, 2022

Many companies are too focused on growing in size without first understanding if they have a viable business model. You get too busy raising funds and reaching milestones that have been imposed upon you that may not align with your company’s long-term vision. You can serve the person and ultimately the business they work for.”.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

SaaStr 606: Your Real Valuation: How Focusing on Delivering Customer Value Generates Business Value with Gusto Co-Founder Josh Reeves. ?. SaaStr 603: SaaStr CRO Confidential Presents the Ultimate Guide to Sales Compensation, Quotas and Recruiting with SaaStr CEO and Founder, Jason Lemkin. Top Podcasts This Week: 1.

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Tom Tunguz

MARCH 19, 2023

is a book a management team could take to an offsite to develop or re-imagine the entire operating system of a business. The book starts with a company’s founding documents, expands to the operating cadence, and culminates in the business’ operating system. When we mess up, miss a deadline, or slow down, it matters.

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IT World

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Zoom's third quarter results show that the big question for the company is whether sales to enterprises will be strong enough to compensate for slowing growth of online, or consumer, revenue as businesses bring workers back to the office in the wake of the pandemic. billion, but in the previous quarter, total revenue grew 8%.

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Tom Tunguz

JUNE 21, 2022

Last, Twilio’s business requires greater COGS (cost-of-goods-sold) than most software businesses. UBP presented an opportunity to reinvent the account executive (AE) compensation model. The areas to trim cost depend on each business’s situation. Compensation. Gross profit equals revenue minus COGS.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Without it, you don’t have a business. You want your first Head of Sales to have had experience at a business with more than 25x the current ARR of your business. That’s a big change, and they can do it by building the first incentive compensation plan that includes variable compensation for specific goals.

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Baremetrics

OCTOBER 20, 2021

If you’re facing a decision, whether to continue being an employee or starting your own new business, that’s a tough one. I never planned or expected to start my own business. And that’s when I had to decide – do I look for a job at some other company, or start my own business? Small and Solo Businesses Are Important.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 12, 2020

Add to that the dramatic pace of business, and it can be very difficult to put the right people in place. Business Moves at the Speed of Light. Is compensation too low? The pace of business only continues to increase, and every day a role goes unfilled, your quotas harder to hit. Rework your compensation structure.

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Totango

APRIL 9, 2024

For the full scoop on all of their bold insights on team alignment and unlocking customer-led growth, check out the webinar: The importance of team alignment and variable compensation The roundtable kicked off with the consensus that aligning CS and Sales teams is imperative, not optional.

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