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In what world does 2k/month pay a sales persons salary? And what enterprise sales person is OK selling something for $2k/month/$24k/year when they carry a quota 20-50x that amount?

Enterprise deals start at 100-200k/year, minimum, IME.




So cloudflare quotes him $5k so that’s 60k. You’re already wrong there.

Then your 24k a year sales person number is assuming that the sales person will sell one license the entire year, an insane assumption.


> what enterprise sales person is OK selling something for $2k/month/$24k/year when they carry a quota 20-50x that amount

probably someone who spends no more than one man-week on this sale, which doesn't seem that hard if the customer is a small org and only wants to buy one feature? sure, if you expect to spend months negotiating and years implementing, you'll need to charge a lot to make up for the time, but we're not talking about that case here.


I'm not including some full Solutions Engineer / Customer Success Engineer kind of integration work on part of the vendor - I'm talking about, you go to the vendor's website, you see some feature you need (like SSO) is under "Contact Us" pricing, usually the barebones for that is $2k/month. This represents meeting with Sales for 15 minute calls a handful of times so they can qualify you, understand your usecase, present you with a quote for more than you need, then negotiate down.

Enterprise salespeople working in that segment understand you're small-fry and they'll kick you a small contract not because they're going to get rich off the commission but because they know that depending solely on whales is a high-risk approach that sooner or later gets them fired. Small contracts pad them out and provide more reliable monthly numbers as long as the sales process doesn't turn into a tarpit that isn't worth the money.




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