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Andrew Sniderman 🕷️'s avatar

Ever heard of a SPIF?

Bill C. White's avatar

Roll one up Andrew!

Andrew Sniderman 🕷️'s avatar

AI knows.

Bill C. White's avatar

My bad! I was thinking of:

Is a spliff and a joint the same thing?

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Andrew Smith's avatar

No, but that’s sort of what this was, right? Or was the $100 for the one top carrier (one single time!) the SPIF, and the voluntary pay week was just the dystopian kid-torture “character building” thing?

Andrew Sniderman 🕷️'s avatar

I was never a sales guy but the mechanics are very interesting. You think it’s just handshaking and relationships and product fit blah blah. But no, it’s pipelines and CRMs and account strategy and bundling and pricing (those last two are marketing but they go hand-in-hand).

SPIFs are part of the sales-mix: incenting sellers to push one line versus another so I suppose if you had the option of delivering multiple papers and you got more customers to get the times versus the herald the times would give you a pack of pop-rocks for your troubles while the herald wouldn’t just give you a pat on the ass.

Andrew Smith's avatar

I've always found it *spiffy* (or *spif*-y) how sales and marketing cross over. The pipelines in are the inputs to the system, and everything needs to be in equilibrium, especially if you run a subscription based business. You really don't want unlimited inputs after a certain point, so hopefully you find ways to filter prior to the sales point whenever possible. Still, it's a holistic team effort from start to finish, and when it's working well at a small business, it can be a thing of beauty to behold.

Bill C. White's avatar

I only delivered papers once when a buddy had to be out of town. I liked it, but I went back to mowing yards. Anything with the least amount of human interaction (and more pay!) :-)

Andrew Smith's avatar

The delivery was pretty isolated, but asking for money was something else! I’m glad I was forced to do it, though. Really, I wasn’t forced - but I was taught to see the value in going outside of my comfort zone in order to earn more, something everyone needs to learn!

Wilson, Adrian S.'s avatar

Having kids deliver papers at the crack of dawn without guaranteed payment is diabolical.

Andrew Smith's avatar

Something something character building