CHAPTER 1
Your Revenue Roadmap: Driving Your Sales Strategy with Sales Compensation
ON A CHILLY MORNING IN SACRAMENTO, I sat perched on a vinyl bench seat, warily eyeing my rolling workplace for the day: an 18-wheeler, windows fogged from the cold, vibrating slightly as its engine idled. My tour guide, Cliff, was a driver sales rep for a major brewing company. Cliff climbed into the cab and slid over to the driver’s seat, and we pulled away from the distributor’s warehouse toward a 10-hour day of sales calls to convenience stores, supermarkets, bars, and restaurants.
As we drove, we talked about how Cliff sold beer. He had been with the company for a number of years and was very successful, but he explained that his role had changed. “Two years ...
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