If your vision is small, your hires will be too.
When you’re building a commission-heavy sales team, candidates are evaluating risk.
Top performers don’t just ask, “What’s the comp?”
They ask, “Where is this going?”
If your plan is to grow from $250K to $500K and hire one rep, that’s not a growth story. That’s a job.
We worked with an owner who wanted to “double this year.” Solid goal. But when we mapped out a 10X, 3-year vision instead, everything changed.
Suddenly there were future team leads. A sales manager. A regional expansion. Clear paths beyond the first role.
Candidates leaned in. The opportunity felt bigger than the base pay.
Here’s the truth: high-quality salespeople join trajectories, not companies.
Do this today:
Write out where the business is in 3 years. Then map 3–5 roles that must exist to support that growth. If you can’t show a path, they won’t see one.
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