{"id":679,"date":"2015-02-16T08:47:28","date_gmt":"2015-02-16T08:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/?p=679"},"modified":"2015-03-09T23:51:37","modified_gmt":"2015-03-09T23:51:37","slug":"tapping-sap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/tapping-sap\/","title":{"rendered":"Tapping SAP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/9\/8045\/8078790546_d717599715.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"574\" height=\"382\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 574px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 574\/382;\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In Forbes\u2019 2011 list of <em>10 Companies that Pay Salespeople Really Well<\/em> (can\u2019t get more straightforward than that, right?), SAP America Inc. is featured at the top. Located on the sprawling former Ellis Estate, SAP\u2019s futuristic glass building boasts an imposing, and by all rights, impressive presence on Newtown Square, the Southeastern Pennsylvania town neighboring my own.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to make a few bucks, big tech firms are one of the most lucrative places for budding salespeople to start. \u00a0A Bureau of Labor Statistics survey reflecting data from May 2010 reported that, \u201cOn average, sales representatives for wholesalers and manufacturers of technical and scientific products make $84,360 in base salary and commission.\u201d As Forbes pointed out, sales representatives at SAP double it up, earning twice the average salary of others in their industry.<\/p>\n<p>So what makes tapping SAP such a monetarily rewarding experience?\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/new.warwickanalytics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/SAP_Logo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"386\" height=\"155\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 386px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 386\/155;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Current employees on Glassdoor.com explain that it\u2019s all about:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Access to the latest training material<\/li>\n<li>Direct contact with the product development team<\/li>\n<li>Pragmatic and employee friendly work environment<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you\u2019re looking for a sales position, even if you\u2019re unable to land one with a company like SAP, it follows that those who offer just some of the characteristics outlined above might be the ticket to significant career gains.<\/p>\n<p>The only other question is: what do you have to sacrifice in order to realize those rewards? That\u2019s something the contributors on Glassdoor didn\u2019t take the time to share.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Forbes\u2019 2011 list of 10 Companies that Pay Salespeople Really Well (can\u2019t get more straightforward than that, right?), SAP America Inc. is featured at the top. Located on the sprawling former Ellis Estate, SAP\u2019s futuristic glass building boasts an imposing, and by all rights, impressive presence on Newtown Square, the Southeastern Pennsylvania town neighboring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sales-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":680,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679\/revisions\/680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}