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Sales Compensation: How to Choose the Best Plan for Your Product-Led Team

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A worked example for a 3M dollar ARR business with two or three reps: 200k OTE at 50:50, quarterly targets blending new, expansion and churn recovery, a 30 percent threshold and accelerators past 115 percent. Rare to see actual numbers.

  • B2B buyers spend only 17 percent of the purchase journey with sales reps (Gartner).
  • Worked example: a 3M ARR business splitting 30 percent self-serve, 30 percent sales-assisted, 40 percent sales-led.
  • Sample AE plan: 200K OTE as 100K base and 100K variable against a 25K MRR quarterly target.
  • Claw back on a schedule (60 percent if the account churns in month one, 40 in month two, 20 in month three) and keep the plan to three focus areas.
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The question it answers

  1. How do the best companies pay reps in a hybrid or product-led motion where the product sourced the deal?

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