The Sales Compensation Handbook

By Stockton B. Colt

Book Overview

"Now in an updated and expanded edition, The Sales Compensation Handbook provides the information and tools needed to design and implement top-notch sales compensation programs. This authoritative... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814404111
• ISBN13: 9780814404119
• Release Date: July 1998
• Publisher: Amacom Books
• Length: 322 Pages
• Weight: 1.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.5" x 1.3" x 7.8"
• Age Range: 17 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 12 and higher

Customer Reviews

Avoid thousands in consulting fees!

This book was just what I needed, and much more. I expected a primer on sales compensation design. What I found was a challenge to review the underlying systems of the Sales Department _AND_ state of the art sales incentive compensation plans.This book is a must-read for every sales manager who is looking to make sure that compensation is not the reason his or her sales force doesn't achieve its goals, or is churning. Putting these tactics to work takes real discipline; but the rewards are tremendous.I highly recommend this book to anyone who is interested in the art and science of a finely tuned sales machine.

Meeting the challenge of creating incentive plans for sales

As one who does a considerable amount of consulting work in designing sales compensation plans, I was delighted with this publication. Anyone who has had the challenge of creating an incentive compensation plan for salespeople, or of leading and motivating a sales force, will appreciate the scope and depth of this book. Using an abundance of diagrams and tables, the chapters and sections examine a very comprehensive range of topics that is highly helpful in shaping sales compensation. One important point that is clearly made is the enormous range of potential root causes of performance problems, other than the nature of the compensation plan. In this regard, compensation is viewed in the broader context of the sales management system; far too often, this big picture is missed, or glossed over. But most of the book focuses on designing sales incentive compensation plans and provides plenty of solid content and detail. I expect readers will find this work a very worthwhi! le contribution to a complex subject; one with which so many organizations seem to continuously wrestle and, more often than not, fail to fathom and, ultimately, succeed.