{"id":4565,"date":"2013-09-27T08:13:04","date_gmt":"2013-09-27T06:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.officetodo.com\/public\/?p=4565"},"modified":"2013-09-22T12:15:13","modified_gmt":"2013-09-22T10:15:13","slug":"what-to-consider-when-thinking-of-introducing-bonuses-to-clients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.officetodo.com\/public\/what-to-consider-when-thinking-of-introducing-bonuses-to-clients\/","title":{"rendered":"What to consider when thinking of introducing bonuses to clients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So you want to start paying bonuses to your clients, be it from the volumes sold, prices or some other special conditions, there are some areas you want to determine and figure out for yourself prior to commencing those discussions and signing agreements:\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<div>\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The basis you want to calculate the bonus;<\/div>\n<div>\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Do the math and make sure you won\u2019t end up in a loss from sales because of the bonus \u2013 make sure you\u2019re not giving away all your gross profits and that there\u2019s enough left over to reach a profit after all the expenses are paid;<\/div>\n<div>\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Bonuses are a nice incentive for your clients, but make sure you\u2019re not doing bad business;<\/div>\n<div>\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0How often do you want to pay bonuses \u2013 monthly, quarterly, once a year;<\/div>\n<div>\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Are all your clients getting the bonus or just some you feel could benefit the most out of it (and you could benefit the most);<\/div>\n<div>\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0How are you going to double-check you\u2019re calculating the bonus correct? Trust me, your clients will also check that.<\/div>\n<p>So as you can see, there are a few things you should consider prior to commencing any bonus agreement discussions. First and foremost you need to make sure you\u2019re not cutting your own profits short because of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So you want to start paying bonuses to your clients, be it from the volumes sold, prices or some other special conditions, there are some areas you want to determine and figure out for yourself prior to commencing those discussions and signing agreements:\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2-processes","category-2-8-revenue-and-receivables"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.officetodo.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.officetodo.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.officetodo.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.officetodo.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.officetodo.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4565"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.officetodo.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4567,"href":"https:\/\/www.officetodo.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4565\/revisions\/4567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.officetodo.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.officetodo.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.officetodo.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}