Re: Salesman Compensation

["Everywhere Man" <alarminstall@xxxxxxx>]

Teach your installers how to sell, and you won't have a problem with
design.
It reduces the number of employees that you need, and increases the
income potential for those that you retain.
Be wary of "hungry" sales reps because nine times out of ten they are
satisfying their hunger with bullshit sales they closed by pitching
heat.


Crash Gordon wrote:
> Commish should be before sales tax.
> If you do a car allowance, make sure you have the salesman do a trip reports
> for your taxes.
>
> Salesmen drive me nuts. If you hire one and make sure you have him go out
> with installers before you send him out in the field - nothing worse than
> having a saleguy tell a client that you'll install a motion detector over
> there...and "over there" is a concrete wall :-)
>
>
>
> "J Barnes" <trishnjames@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:ueudnWr0deJx0dnZRVn-og@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> |I know this has come up here before but it never really gets answered.
> |
> | How much do you pay a salesman in this industry?  I am thinking about
> paying
> | 1,000 per month plus commission, cell phone and car allowance.  The
> | commission will be about 10-15% of the total sale amount.  What is
> everyones
> | opinions on this?  And what is everyone else doing?
> |
> | James B
> |
> |