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How to Build Effective Sales Compensation Plans for Any Customer Facing Role

Sales Hacker

Create a 2-Page Contract and Get Mutual Commitment [TEMPLATE PROVIDED]. Here’s a simple example to begin with that covers the SDR, AE and Customer Success Manager (CSM) functions: Table 1. For example, within the FedTech space, sales contracts can be established with 3 years of commitment. 40,000/150 = $267/SQL.

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SaaStr Podcast #213: Tom Tunguz, GP @ Redpoint Ventures On Why Scoring Leads May Actually Be Dangerous

SaaStr

Annual contracts: To what extent do annual contracts dominate today? Why does Tom think in the early days one should be wary of signing too many multi-year contracts? How does Tom think about calculating churn when it comes to multi-year contracts? And the first one as you said, Harry, is around annual contracts.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week: May 10, 2019

SaaStr

And when we would focus on the buying experience and making it very personal to the buyer we actually see a dramatic increase in revenue and so MQL and SQL are what I call maybe a momentum or a KPI metric, but they shouldn’t be how you’re driving or measuring your teams.

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The Playbook to Building a Thriving Sales Culture with PatientPop SVP of Sales Justin Welsh (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

My velocity lane, PatientPop’s SMB SaaS, eight units a month, $13,500 contract. Calls, emails, connect rate, demos, performs, wins, average contract value. It helped bump customers into annual contracts and it helped people set great expectations so that customers didn’t churn. They came from medicine, right?

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SaaStr Podcast for the Week with Redpoint Ventures and Cloudflare — January 3, 2020

SaaStr

Annual contracts: To what extent do annual contracts dominate today? Why does Tom think in the early days one should be wary of signing too many multi-year contracts? How does Tom think about calculating churn when it comes to multi-year contracts? And the first one as you said, Harry, is around annual contracts.

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SaaStr Podcast #348 with Dataiku Chief Customer Officer Kurt Muehmel

SaaStr

You’re telling me mathematically the answer is going to be X, but I can’t understand why. And is there ever a case for too small a contract to start? There are certain that are really complicated and really to understand how the decision was actually made. We think that’s really core to how we do things. Help me out.

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