18 Reasons salesmen are quitting the company (how bad this is)

What does it mean when your sales people are leaving the company?
Not just one Salesman, but 2 or 3 within a short time span of several weeks.

The company problems

Something must be wrong:
  1. The commissions you are paying are way to low
  2. The products or services are bad
  3. The after service is bad
  4. Training or support is barely existent
  5. Your products are outdated
  6. The company has no (more) vision
  7. Brand name has gone down the drain (various reasons)
  8. The resellers need to take too much inventory
  9. The products are too complex to explain: too much effort for the benefit
10. The implementation is not easy and your resellers have a hard time to invoiced them
11. The products are more difficult to sell than those of the competitors
12. The work pressure is too high compared to the income
13. The price is too high compared to the competitors
14. Management is mainly busy with themselves instead of the company
15. The Finance dept has taken over the company and business has become secondary
16. More pricing list changes per year than the channel can deal with
17. The pricing list has become more complex than the manual of the product
18. Administration consumes more time than prospecting and selling

Any of these reasons is a fundamental problem for the company. Each of them is hard to overcome and to change.

Salesmen are like sole traders

Sales people act as sole traders or entrepreneurs who sell their skills and services to their employer. They will work for best employer they can find at the best price (not necessary for the least effort).

When the business is no longer interesting your Salesmen will start looking for other opportunities and change employer when they see a good opportunity.

The last call for your company

When your sales people are leaving your company, it is indicating the problems have become significant and it is probably almost too late: it’s your last chance to make changes or to change course.
Of course you first need to understand the problem.
If Salesmen are leaving your company it is like the last call as without Salesmen no revenue.
In order to make the problem even worse: your best Salesmen will leave the first as they are the best in selling themselves.
Your company will be left over with the leftovers in Sales.

Are any of these signs apparent in your company?
Any other reasons for quitting to add?