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  • Sales positions, advice needed please?

    Posted by Mark.Kelly on March 22, 2018 at 6:34 am

    Looking to find out how and what other companies pay their salespeople? What is the going rate and how should it be structured? I’m sure the answers will be varied but just looking for some input.
    Thanks in advance.

    Kevin Mahoney replied 6 years, 3 months ago 10 Members · 21 Replies
  • 21 Replies
  • Unknown Member

    Member
    March 22, 2018 at 8:13 pm

    We were paying our guy £30k…company car and expenses and commission..

  • Colin Crabb

    Member
    March 23, 2018 at 3:14 pm

    £32k + £20K OTE + company car/car allowance

  • Simon Worrall

    Member
    March 23, 2018 at 4:28 pm
    quote Colin Crabb:

    £32k + £20K OTE + company car/car allowance

    What is OTE?

  • Andrew O Brien

    Member
    March 23, 2018 at 4:30 pm

    On Target earnings.

    I had to google it.

  • Hugh Potter

    Member
    March 23, 2018 at 5:22 pm

    Reckon I’m in the wrong job 😆 😆

  • Kevin Mahoney

    Member
    March 23, 2018 at 6:13 pm

    £4.50 per hour, use of the company bicycle at weekends, half day Christmas & boxing day

  • David Hammond

    Member
    March 23, 2018 at 6:39 pm

    Doing well if you get paid at the end of the month 😆 😆 😆 😆

  • Unknown Member

    Member
    March 23, 2018 at 7:03 pm

    Is wouldn’t recommend it to be honest!! I sold more in 7 hours sat on my desk than my sales guy did doing 4500 miles and giving me expenses for nearly 800 in fuel!

    If you have someone bringing you accounts than it probably worth it but if they are building new accounts it can take time and be frustrating for the employer having to pay and nothing coming in

  • Hugh Potter

    Member
    March 24, 2018 at 10:22 am
    quote James Sahota:

    Is wouldn’t recommend it to be honest!! I sold more in 7 hours sat on my desk than my sales guy did doing 4500 miles and giving me expenses for nearly 800 in fuel!

    If you have someone bringing you accounts than it probably worth it but if they are building new accounts it can take time and be frustrating for the employer having to pay and nothing coming in

    7 hours? Reminds me of my first part time job 😆 😆 😆 😆

  • Unknown Member

    Member
    March 24, 2018 at 12:16 pm

    Lol!!! 7 hours a week that was my first job delivering news papers…£12.00 a week…just to live that job!

  • Hugh Potter

    Member
    March 24, 2018 at 12:53 pm
    quote James Sahota:

    Lol!!! 7 hours a week that was my first job delivering news papers…£12.00 a week…just to live that job!

    ha, me too, except I had a huge sunday round in my old home town, all the odds and ends that didn’t fit on other rounds, 06:30 to 11am and about 9 miles on my old bmx carrying two huge bags stuffed with sunday papers and supplementary.. erned about £9 for that. Still, I looked the dogs with my white skyway mags and layback sadldle!!!!!

  • Dan Osterbery

    Member
    March 24, 2018 at 9:49 pm

    Hope it had cw handlebars and mushroom grips too! Sounds like a great bike

  • Kevin Mahoney

    Member
    March 24, 2018 at 9:52 pm

    CW’s! Saved up for 6 months to buy those for my mongoose then had my bike nicked 2 days after I put them on, gutted

  • Dan Osterbery

    Member
    March 25, 2018 at 11:13 am

    je je je so did I the CW handlebars and Beartrap pedals! (still got the scars on my shins from those badboys!) Gutted for you some pillock nicked it!

  • Hugh Potter

    Member
    March 26, 2018 at 8:14 am
    quote Dan Osterbery:

    Hope it had cw handlebars and mushroom grips too! Sounds like a great bike

    Now we’re talking – mushroom grips and cw’s!!! though I ended up with (can’t recall the brand) a set of bars with double crossbars.. easier to balance your little brother on like ET!!

  • Kevin Mahoney

    Member
    March 26, 2018 at 8:35 am

    Hang on a minute…
    Didn’t this post start life as a sales salary question?
    Must say I much prefer the 1980s time traveling theme

  • David Hammond

    Member
    March 26, 2018 at 8:59 am

    It did, and the conclusion I’ve come to is.

    You don’t need to be offering £30k+, OTE, Company cars, expenses. Just a BMX, some coloured tyres and matching mushroom grips :thumbsup:

  • Kevin Mahoney

    Member
    March 26, 2018 at 9:10 am

    When can I start?

  • Iain George

    Member
    March 26, 2018 at 3:45 pm

    Mongoose or a cheap Raleigh copy

  • David Stevenson

    Member
    March 26, 2018 at 8:48 pm

    If you get me a Raleigh Chopper I’ll move over from Ireland and work for you. 3 gears, no messing about there :smiles: :smiles: :smiles:

  • Kevin Mahoney

    Member
    March 26, 2018 at 9:05 pm

    Was too short for the chopper as I was only 10, my mongoose was top of the line until they brought out the pro class one with holes drilled in the rims between every spoke. Drilled mine out & lost 3 back teeth when I went up a kerb on the way to school

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