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Help Figure Out Salary Of Part-time Sales Person
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I am currently a one man show who has been in the print and web business for 5 years...working out of a home office. I am at a point where I cannot grow my business anymore because I spend many days selling jobs and nights doing the production on web and print projects. I am tapped out of hours. The most logical next step would be to hire a part-time salesperson who could do the selling while I do the production. The person I'm currently talking to has a lot of experience with large clients (proposals, bids, customer management, etc..) and is currently at a large agency as an account rep. They also have a large rolodex of past contacts.
This person is looking to leave the agency and work part-time from home and is looking for an opportunity. After talking with this person for 4 hours at Starbucks, they are a perfect fit in my eyes.
Now, how do I make this a win-win financially for both parties? Talking to a print shop owner friend of mine, he suggested paying a draw. Now for a full time person, he says he pays his sales guy $1,200 every 2 weeks and at the end of the month, after expenses, he splits the profits 50/50.
I run a different type of business than he does. So can someone offer a suggestion on what I could pay this person and what type of commission they should earn? Do they make money on recurring jobs? What if they sell an annual hosting package...do they make commission on that one time or get paid every year when it gets renewed? What about monthly website maintenance...if this person sold a monthly retainer to a client...say $1,000/mo for website updates, newsletters, etc...should they get a percentage of that too? It all sounds too complicated. Please help with any advice you can give. Thanks.