Sales and marketing jobs<\/a> span a wide range of opportunities. As a result, junior sales associates in retail stores may make minimum wage while vice-presidents in software companies earn $150,000 or more a year. Marketing can see the same discrepancy. However, many CEOs and senior managers come from sales and marketing backgrounds, showing the sky\u2019s the limit.<\/p>\nSales professionals often receive a base salary plus commission or large bonuses for meeting goals. Depending on the industry and position, it may take up to several months before you build a \u201csales pipeline\u201d of customers willing to buy. In those cases, employers usually provide a training wage or higher base salary for that time period.<\/p>\n
In addition to your wages, many employers offer competitive benefits packages that include medical and dental plans, discounts on merchandise purchases and perqs or bonuses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Sales and marketing involve putting products and services into the hands of customers in a profitable way. Sales includes the activities related to selling a product or service for money. Marketing means analyzing the needs of potential customers, developing a product to meet those needs, and connecting buyers and sellers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bcjobs.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bcjobs.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bcjobs.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcjobs.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcjobs.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcjobs.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9545,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcjobs.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions\/9545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bcjobs.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcjobs.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcjobs.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}