Sales Commission Structures That Actually Drive Behavior

Sales Commission Structures That Actually Drive Behavior

What is the best sales commission structure? Why do sales reps sandbag deals? How do accelerators work? What is a gross-margin commission plan? How do I align commissions with company goals? How do I prevent commission disputes? Is your sales commission structure...
What Happens When You Set Quotas Without Capacity Data?

What Happens When You Set Quotas Without Capacity Data?

In this article: If leaders don’t understand how many accounts a rep can manage, how much pipeline they can realistically generate, or how much selling time they actually have, quota setting becomes an exercise in wishful thinking. When quotas significantly...
Uncapped Commissions on High-Growth Tech Teams

Uncapped Commissions on High-Growth Tech Teams

The Impact of Uncapped Commissions on High-Growth Tech Teams By Dylan Berger, on behalf of The Alexander Group While striving for SaaS market dominance, your compensation plans might encourage your best salespeople to stop selling. Legacy commission caps act as...
Your Reps Are Doing Two Jobs: One Is Commission Auditing

Your Reps Are Doing Two Jobs: One Is Commission Auditing

Here’s something that rarely makes it into a sales team meeting: your highest performers may be spending hours every month doing work that should never fall to them. Not prospecting. Not demos. Not pipeline reviews. Instead, they are auditing their own...
The Real Commission Crisis Nobody’s Talking About

The Real Commission Crisis Nobody’s Talking About

Here’s a number that should make every RevOps leader uncomfortable: commission rates across industries have held remarkably steady in the 5% to 20% range for years.  Companies obsess over finding the perfect percentage point, running endless analyses to...