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WITCE Wednesday — Gross Margin

A Sales Guy

I talked about the profit and loss statement in an earlier post, but wanted to tackle gross margin today. Gross margin is a part of the P&L statement and if you’re in sales it’s important to understand for both YOU and YOUR customers and prospects. The higher the gross margin the better the business.

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The Interview….

Partners in Excellence

CEO: What were the rough gross margins? Dave: Gross margins were about 75% CEO: Help me understand, if your Rule of 40 was 50, your growth was 200%, it means your EBIDTA was -150%. With gross margins of 75% you must have had monstrous sales/marketing expense. What am I misunderstanding?

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Churn Is A Variable of Quota You Need To Know

The Pipeline

Most go for the easy and perhaps obvious option; they gross up their quota by what they feel their average churn rate is. Actively trading out lower margin or otherwise weaker quality revenue accounts with better attributes is part of the job. We should all seek higher-margin, less resource consuming accounts that have other pluses.

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What Value Are Your Customers Creating For You?

Partners in Excellence

And sometimes, in addition to revenue, we may look at gross margins generated by the customer. But we need to look at value creation–and the value we receive from our customers as more than revenue or gross margin. For key and strategic accounts, we think of the total revenue we can generate across the account.

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Return on Sales: How to Calculate It and What You Need to Know

Hubspot Sales

Return on Sales vs. Profit Margin. The terms “return on sales” and “ profit margin ” are often used interchangeably, but those semantics are only partially accurate. There are different kinds of profit margins — only one of which is the same as return on sales. Net profit margin. Gross profit margin.

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Sales Leaders – You Get What You Ask For – Sales eXchange 237

The Pipeline

I have fund that companies who incent their sales people based on gross profits are consistently better aligned with their reps, and achieve mutually better results. As we all know, a $500 discount on a $10,000 piece of equipment, can have little impact on what the reps gets paid, but could be a huge part of the gross or net margin.

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Building Financial Acumen as a Sales Professional

Janek Performance Group

“I just closed a deal with a 60 percent gross margin!” What’s the net margin? The salesperson looked confused and asked, “Net margin, what’s the difference?” But the net margin is what you take home after taxes.” On a typical deal, we hold about a $500 net margin.” “So,

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