Comp is one of the biggest cost lines on the P&L, and nobody truly owns it. It runs on spreadsheets and vibes, mostly wrapped in good intentions. It breaks quietly...
September is consumed by board prep. October brings the close crunch. By November, Finance and RevOps are in a panic, untangling commission disputes that surface at the worst possible time...
Your commission process probably works. Reps get paid, close eventually happens, and the spreadsheet only breaks a few times a year. That’s the problem … “works” and “good enough” are...
Sales planning is broken for most teams. Quota-setting is often based on gut feel. Territory carving happens in spreadsheets. Commission tracking is a mess of tabs and manual reconciliation. In...
Nobody is talking about comp plan design in August. And you should be! By August, most RevOps and Finance teams have 6+ months of performance data, which we consider enough...
The end-of-month commission scramble: a high-pressure, error-prone cycle where Finance and RevOps teams manually wrestle with disconnected data. Exporting raw CRM data, converting files, and manually manipulating fragile spreadsheets to...
Two-thirds of B2B businesses experience a summer sales slump when sales teams disengage mid-year. Sales teams often hit a motivational slump during the summer months. Between vacations, slower deal cycles,...
By Q3, most revenue organizations are doing the same quiet calculation: Quotas may have been set too high (or too low) at the start of the year. The business has...
Two-thirds of respondents update their comp plans less often than once per year, according to Sales Xceleration’s Sales Agility Assessment. This is surprising, since nearly 40% of revenue leaders admit...
Sales compensation is a strategic FP&A lever…and most teams are managing it wrong. There, we said it. Now that we’ve got that off our chest, here’s what we mean and...