you control your paycheck

Written By Ayush Duggal

base salary is just guaranteed minimum commission.

think about it. in business development, that fixed component is your safety net. your real earning potential? unlimited.

fresh out of college with zero experience? doesn't matter in BD. everyone starts at the same baseline. what you earn from there is entirely up to you.

the harder you hustle. the smarter you work. the more problems you solve for customers. the bigger your paycheck gets.

not determined by your boss. not determined by annual performance reviews. determined by you.

this is different from traditional jobs. an accountant gets their salary regardless of how many books they balance. a software engineer gets paid whether their code ships or not.

but in BD, your value is immediately visible. close more deals, earn more money. simple.

research shows commission-based roles offer significantly higher earning potential than fixed-salary positions. top performers can double or triple their base compensation.

the downside? income variability. if you have a bad month, your paycheck reflects it. 72% of sales professionals didn't hit quota in 2023. base salary protects you when that happens.

but here's what most people miss: you're building a skillset that compounds. persuasion, relationship building, understanding customer needs. these transfer everywhere.

two years in BD teaches you more about business than four years of theory.

and unlike traditional career paths where raises come annually, you can increase your income quarterly or even monthly.

this isn't for everyone. if you need predictable paychecks and prefer someone else deciding your worth, traditional roles make sense.

but if you want control? commission-based BD is the fastest path.

Ayush Duggal

Ayush Duggal is the kind of founder who looked at India’s graduate unemployment problem and thought, “What if the real issue isn’t jobs or skills, but the complete lack of believable salespeople?” So he built VerveSchool. A place where the overlooked learn the overlooked skill. Sales. Not the sleazy kind. The kind that actually works. The kind where someone trusts you enough to say yes without hating themselves afterwards.

He teaches people how to sell like they mean it. Not because a script told them to. But because they’ve actually understood what it means to solve a problem for someone who’s barely listening. It’s more psychology than pipeline. More theatre than theory. More “shut up and listen” than “always be closing.”

VerveSchool runs on a Pay After Placement model. Which, let’s be honest, is probably how all education should work. You pay when it works. Not before. Radical, apparently. But only if you're still pretending the current system makes sense.

Ayush is allergic to mediocrity and buzzwords. He prefers late-night coaching calls to keynote speeches. He’d rather get one ambitious underdog to a 7 LPA role than impress a room full of VCs who’ve never had to sell a ₹15,000 course to a broke 24-year-old with a BA pass degree.

He’s read more Osho than MBA textbooks and thinks most “career advice” would make more sense if it came with a warning label. He doesn’t do fake humility. Or fake urgency. Just real people, real growth, and real results.

https://verveschool.com
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