commission floors debate
Leadership
Should I have a commission floor in my sales compensation plan?

Commissions floors, or “cliffs” require an individual to meet a certain performance threshold before gaining commission payout eligibility as defined by the sales compensation plan. Usually, a certain amount of...

sales engineer interview with michael davenport
Sales
What does a sales engineer do? We asked our own to answer.

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, about 60,000 individuals held the role of “sales engineer” in 2021. This role most frequently appeared in the computer systems design and...

How to test your comp plan
Leadership
How to pressure test your proposed sales comp plan

Last year, our Chief of Staff (and host of Sales Nerds Live!) Graham Collins shared the patterns he observed after conducting more than 350 compensation strategy calls.   His top five...

money is emotional
Leadership
The emotional element of compensation planning

Leaders may disagree on including sales compensation elements such as clawbacks, cliffs, and decelerators, but one thing they can agree on is that the topic of pay is an emotional...

how to build a comp plan with finance support
Leadership
How Sales and Finance can work better together this comp plan season

Although Sales and Finance share a goal to generate as much revenue as possible, their approaches to achieving it differs quite a bit. “Typically, people in Finance gravitate toward data-driven...

how to build account hierarchy
Sales
How to comp and manage parent child accounts in your CRM

Like other processes and procedures in sales, approaching hierarchies of parent child accounts contains a lot of blurred lines and situational dependencies. Fortunately, we’ve got some experience to clear this...

how to be transparent with sales compensation
Leadership
Your sales rep hiring process deserves compensation transparency too

The sales rep hiring process has changed dramatically over the past few years. SaaS recruiters conduct interviews almost exclusively over video now. Remote sales jobs have exploded in popularity, which...

comp plan feedback
Leadership
Why gathering rep feedback on sales compensation plans is a RevOps must

Are you gathering rep feedback on sales compensation plans? If not, please start. Our Sr. Director of RevOps Ryan Milligan shared a few tips on what to ask and what...

october quokkapath
QuokkaPath
Meet QuokaPath’s October Winner: Amita Singh

Every month, QuotaPath customers nominate one of their teammates for Quokka of the Month, a peer recognition award. We’re thrilled to announce our QuokkaPath October winner below. To nominate a...

compensation plan examples featuring four experts
Leadership
4 sales compensation best practices to help you for 2023

This blog marks the fourth and final blog of our series featuring comp plan examples for account executives from industry leaders. In case you missed our previous posts, catch up...

communication of compensation plans featuring 3 leaders
Leadership
The trust in your comp plan starts with its rollout

This blog is our third in a four-part series featuring comp plan examples for account executives from industry leaders. In case you missed our previous posts, catch up on the...

AE sample bonus structure
Leadership
4 sample bonus structures for AEs to consider for 2023

As much as we love sales commissions, we also appreciate strong sample bonus structures. We’ll dive into four of our most widely adopted account executive (AE) bonus structures, but before...

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