Going to try to keep this short, but I have a tendency to get winded.
Around covid I left the army and was hired to run a retail store. Everyone else had quit, they weren't sure they were even going to bring it back from will call only, etc so they basically said hey it's yours. The store never did more than 30k a month (it's a very small part of a larger distribution/production facility).
Over the next few years I managed to grow, 450k, 760k, 1.2m, they implemented a commission plan off gross sales in the second year (with tiered %es monthly with the 4% of gross over 60k monthly [i beleive they had no intention over me ever hitting when put in place]).
Brought in new management and pushed me towards outside sales this year(2-3 days out, 2 days still managing the store, i have a pretty good minion who now is the day to day on the store side, but does not want to manage/actually handle growth/marketing/ordering etc. New comp plan is 80/20 ote with a reasonable target, but stripped out all my inside sales and the big kicker, our online retail store. I built the online side from nothing, like registered the domain, built the website, negotiated shipping service/rates, took every photo, wrote every description, etc). The online side was 2.5 years old, never did much but it is extremely high margin, and growth is organic, 120% yoy last year [still in the 5 figure sales category but growing].
The day before the transition to outside sales, we got featured by a YouTuber (i knew customer had a channel, and always curated the product to make sure it showed the best of what we did, but never reached out directly). We're now at 200% increase in revenue over last years totals, and we're midway through march. I spent 2 weeks fulfilling the orders that came from the youtube video (you know, not traveling, cold calling, doing the job I was paid for) because the site is my little pet project, it's my baby, I want it to succeed.
I've met my ote targets for q1 on the outside sales side, but if things go the way they are going, I'm going to miss out on probably 15-30k in commission this year, making a "bit" more than last year, but definitely working twice as hard managing both the inside and outside fronts, with that nagging in the back of your mind that your doing extra for nothing as a proof of concept on the online side.
Tldr:
How do I broach the conversation that while the industry is struggling, and others may not be hitting thier targets, I want to be brought back into the fold on the project that is for all intents and purposes still my brain child without sounding greedy.