share your best commission check stories, like what you've did the first time that you secured a bag as new AE, or your biggest score.
Here's mine: I had been doing the work of an inbound SDR at a seed stage company with no OTE, just base. There were no AE touchpoints and it occurred to me that we should prompt leads to jump into calls instead of using chat only ( I know, we didn't know better). I started doing calls, conversion rate went up like crazy and we hired a Head of Sales. This guy was a Jordan Belfort type of sweet talker but lazy as shit, so he was let go within 2 months and we hired an AE and a new Head of Sales. I was quietly promoted to AE (I just went with it), and after 3 months the CEO had a meeting to tell me that he'd been paying commission to the other AE and that it was only fair to retroactively give me the equivalent accrued from those 3 months. It was mesures by revenue and I had been building the book of business so I just got my first massive check. I immediately booked a trip across the globe to meet up with this chick that I had met and loved a few years back (what a simp right). That trip kicked off our relationship and she crossed the globe to move in with me, so is fair to say that a massive check had a life changing impact. Second to this, beyond all of the cool material shit I've bought thanks to sales, traveling has reaped the biggest benefits for me. I just read some typos and grammatical errors but I'm on mobile and scrolling up to make changes is a pain so fuck it and sorry XO XO
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