Today, I attended a presentation online. The company’s first 20 (yes 20) slides were direct from their site – which I had already read. Make sure you ask your prospect what he/she has already seen or knows prior to starting a presentation.
This is a follow-up to the recent sales presentations in Lexington. You may be interested in these resources when considering the management of your sales teams: Jigsaw.com — a free or pay web database of executives at companies nationwide. I recommend this to all businesses with sales people. LinkedIn.com — a “six degrees of separation” [...]
In my previous post, I listed some questions related to general company compensation plans. This post is about sales-specific commissions and compensation. It does not delve into the intricacies of every factor involved, though. This is a primer on commissions from my perspective with a few brief examples at the end of the post. First, [...]
About a week ago, I commented on a post at David Maister’s site related to sales commissions. Both David M and David Kirk asked for a bit more explanation of my comment. (This is not uncommon since I can be unclear more often than not!) This is a copy of the original comment post: I [...]