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Sales Comp Examples Quotes

“ We pay our sales reps on gross margin only. And we pay on their total
          book of business. The smart ones have figured out that going into each
          month they have a portion of their quota already met from their recurring
          revenue business. This somewhat allows them to balance the need to sell
a big deal with the need to build a sustaining backlog of recurring

“ ”revenue. BUT…This may not have worked if our sales team was more

transient in nature.
– Cisco Cloud Reseller with sales reps that have significant tenure at the
company

                                                         We pay our reps on the total contract value upfront. We have
                                                         enough cash flow from our organization to cover the sales
                                                         compensation even though the customers have not paid us yet.
                                                         Our account managers sell our complete portfolio so this helps
with potential compensation issues compared to larger upfront                                                                ”

                                                                deals. But our reps do not get paid for renewals. We have a

                                                                dedicated team that handles that.

“ ”– Larger (>$100M in annual revenue) Cisco Cloud Reseller
        We put an overlay sales force in place to address the issue of having

        mostly hardware based sales reps. This will cost more in the

        beginning, but it is a variable cost on a small portion of our overall

        revenue right now
        – Cisco Partner in the process of implementing XaaS solutions but 80+%

        of revenue is still from product resale
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