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Business Blast: Getting Back to Commission Selling

Most lighting salespeople receive a base pay plus a commission or bonus plan.

But now Michael Colligan says he is having a hard time hiring new employees because they don’t want a commission-based pay program.

Is internal competition driving potential new hires away from you?

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Greg Ehrich, LC is the former President of the National Association of Innovative Lighting Distributors (NAILD) and owner of Premier Lighting, a progressive lighting distributorship.

Michael Colligan is an entrepreneur and inventor. He’s a subject matter expert in commercial and industrial lighting supply, lighting retrofits, and finding recycling streams for hard-to-recycle waste.

The Get A Grip Business Blast on tEDmag.com is sponsored by SATCO.

If you want to watch more Get A Grip On Lighting podcasts, you can go to www.getagriponlighting.com.

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