Where to start. Fast paced rev driven person who decided to leave for profit for not for profit for the mission.
I started working as a sales leader early Jan within a non-profit that sells an event along with products. It was the first time this org had a sales team. My team are the guinea pigs.
- I was given a revenue goal for the year, but no numbers were shared with me.
- I was given Q1 quota, and 8 sales people who started the same day I did. I had no say in any hires.
- I did not develop the quota, or the compensation plan. I had no input. I have no understanding of why the quota was set to where it was, when sales for the event have been declining YoY.
- Within a week, the CRO was fired.
- The sales VP left shortly thereafter.
- The BDR team was let go in mid march. All biz dev was outsourced to a company that didn't start working for 2 months, and has not closed a single sale.
- For 5.5 months, no one on my team saw the comp plan, including me, despite asking for it for months. (I was told I would get mine shortly after starting. I also didn't get mine until my team did.
- We exceeded Q1 quota. (5m)
- I was not given Q2 quota until the first week in April. It was 20m.
- BC we do event sales, our annual quota deadline was June 30th.
- We were given an extension until today.
- Comp plan states the following insanity:
- 75% of the quota must be attained in order to receive any payout.
- Clients must be paid in full before payout.
- Payouts happen for 1st half of the year on August 16th.
- Payouts for the 2nd half of the year get paid in February or March of the next year.
- Employee must be employed in order to get payout.
- There is no CRM. There's a SF migration underway, but its not in place yet.
- SE tools are ok. Zoominfo is fine, but the Engage part of ZI is crap, and has caused 1000s of hours of lost productivity. Nearly 200 tech stacks for a 100 person company.
- Sales close today, and our outbound email has been down since last Monday.
- Leadership frequently attends and speaks at conferences. They never come back with any leads. Nor is anyone in revenue invited.
- Money is spend, spend, spend, except when it comes to giving revenue any tools or time to increase efficiency.
- There is no marketing to drive top of funnel sales.
- All of the rules I know about sales have been broken here. We won't reach quota, and no one seems to care.
- Without a ramp up period for everyone, and with such a short sales cycle, it was destined to fail.
- Feel like I'll be out of work in 3 weeks.
- Want to go back to an IC role.
The situation has been impossible from the beginning. With no ramp up period, and no transparency on actual goals, the team, and I feel defeated.
The incentive killed any morale or incentive bc there isn't any. Has anyone encountered such a nightmare comp plan and working scenario? I'm looking to get out, but the landscape is quite difficult.
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