Search Engine Land

JANUARY 12, 2023

Matt Cutts educates Washington, DC about Google. In 2011, Matt Cutts, the head of Google’s search spam team, was in Washington DC, doing an “educational tour” to explain to US Federal Trade Commission members and congressional staffers that Google’s search results didn’t require government regulation. Also on this day.

Engineering 93

Engineering Transportation Launch Trust 93

Hubspot

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Last Thursday, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted 3-to-2 to repeal regulations of internet service providers. Take the Washington Post's example of Hulu and Netflix (the latter of which expressly dissented the repeal). We are helping consumers and promoting competition,” Chairman Pai stated prior to the vote.

Electricity 77

Electricity Legal Commission Territory 77

Hubspot

MARCH 26, 2018

While likely a bad actor, I'm inclined to believe that Cambridge Analytica isn't alone in the way it allegedly synthesized Facebook user data to get to the root of what sort of promoted content and messaging would resonate most with people.

Strategic partnership 78

Strategic partnership Contact Commission Networking 78

Gong.io

MARCH 8, 2021

On most sales teams, women on parental leave face an unfair loss of income, because they lose their commissions. So we enhanced parental leave across Gong in the US to pay 100% of base salary AND 80% of the target commission/bonus. Employees have also asked how they can get more involved in promoting inclusion at Gong.

Commission 62

Commission Sales Growth Pipeline 62

SaaStr

MARCH 1, 2019

Should sales commission be paid on renewals? I went to work at a startup in Washington, D.C. One thing that I go back and forward on is kind of AEs and their relationship with renewals in terms of should they get commissioned for renewals? * How does Tom think about constructing comp plans the right way today?

Contract 46

Contract Price Commission Conversion 46

Heinz Marketing

JANUARY 1, 2018

He is a licensed attorney in Washington and Nevada. But when we went to a one-to-one mapping, where we said, “This is your SDR, and your pipeline, which means your commission, and how much money you make is dependent on their ability to set good demos for you,” well, all of a sudden, the incentives were much more properly aligned.

Pipeline 50

Pipeline Finance Sales Cold Call 50

SaaStr

JANUARY 3, 2020

Should sales commission be paid on renewals? I went to work at a startup in Washington, D.C. One thing that I go back and forward on is kind of AEs and their relationship with renewals in terms of should they get commissioned for renewals? * How does Tom think about constructing comp plans the right way today?

Contract 10

Contract Price Commission Conversion 10