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A sales person making $600k probably has a base salary of $50-100 the rest is all commission. Sales can be a grueling slog that requires wit, emotional intellig
by bbertelsen 4y ago
A sales person making $600k probably has a base salary of $50-100 the rest is all commission. Sales can be a grueling slog that requires wit, emotional intelligence and significant research into your target. It's both strategic and tactical in a way that can only be practiced through repeated failure. To be bringing in a revenue that justifies a $600k salary is a rare person indeed. We all tend to oversimplify other people's work or problems. This is a good example.
- hinkley 4y agoWell, we don't reward engineers who find a way to increase sales or decrease overhead by half a million either. Maybe both teams could copy some habits from the other and delete a few.
- bbertelsen 4y agoActually we do. They are usually called consultants and have _sold_ a company on their ability to do so.