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The Broken State of SaaS Sales Rep Comp

SaaStr

Folks that increased quotas to compensate for sales comp inflation and lower margins ended up in many cases with low attainment. Ultimately, so much AE and SDR comp math from the 2019-2021 era just doesn’t end up making sense once there’s a bit less venture capital in the system. But where does that 20% magically come from?

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How to Build Effective Sales Compensation Plans for Any Customer Facing Role

Sales Hacker

A great sales compensation plan needs to accomplish quite a lot. It needs to provide fair compensation to employees in customer-facing roles. The Process for Creating a Sales Compensation Plan. Plan Compensation for Onboarding and Training. Example Compensation Plans. Establish Role Levels. Keep it Simple.

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How to Find Influencers or Creators for Your Next Campaign (+Best Practices for Partnerships)

Buffer Resources

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Radoslav Bali (@radoslavbali) Set a budget and compensation plan Kicking off with an example, we worked with influencers on our Threads launch. Remember that influencers are professionals who expect fair compensation for their work — as they should.​

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Introducing our Open Salary System: Reflecting on a Decade of Transparent Salaries at Buffer

Buffer Resources

The Open Salary System we’re sharing is a project we took on last year to re-imagine how we approach salaries, resolve the issues we identified over time, and set ourselves up for another decade of salary transparency. Why salaries are transparent at Buffer Compensation is a very important and sensitive element of work.

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Introducing our Open Salary System: Reflecting on a Decade of Transparent Salaries at Buffer

Buffer Resources

The Open Salary System we’re sharing is a project we took on last year to re-imagine how we approach salaries, resolve the issues we identified over time, and set ourselves up for another decade of salary transparency. Why salaries are transparent at Buffer Compensation is a very important and sensitive element of work.

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How to Build Your Startup like Google & Stripe

Tom Tunguz

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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Rapid response: How we fixed our on call process to avoid engineer burnout

Intercom, Inc.

The quality of our alarms and on call procedures were inconsistent across teams and we were using ad hoc review processes for new and existing alarms. For example, only the original operations team had any form of compensation for doing on call shifts other than time off in lieu. Our formal escalation process has rarely been used.