5 ways to close more business with social selling
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Live Webcast: 5 ways to close more business with Social Selling
Bob MoodyEnterprise Account ExecutiveLinkedIn Sales Solutions EMEA
Amy MillerSenior Marketing Manager LinkedIn Sales Solutions EMEA
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Your profession: What’s changed?
What IS Social Selling
Becoming a Social Selling Expert
Live Demo
How social is your sales organisation right now?
Today’s Agenda
Buying process has fundamentally changed“ ”
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Buyers are tech-savvy, and socially empowered.
Members Worldwide
+2 newMembers Per Second
240M+
13M+Members in the UK & Ire
74M+Members EMEA
LinkedIn Global Membership
Registered members as of
August 2013
Of LinkedIn members are outside of the US
4M+
Australia
21M+
India
8M+
SE Asia
7M+
Canada
84M+USA
13M+
Brazil
Europe42M+
APAC
65M+
3M+DACH
5M+Italy
5M+France
5M+Spain
4M+NL
13M++
UK
1M+UAE
74M+
EMEA
Continued Growth
2M+S. Africa
1M+
Singapore
65%
37% YOY
Member Growth
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Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish.
What is Social Selling?
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Developing a Reputation: Building a strong online reputation that showcases your experience and increases your credibility
Gathering Intelligence: Researching social information to prepare for sales conversations
Building your Network: Developing relationships with people who can share information and provide referrals
Offering Insights: Providing meaningful insights that earn opportunities to engage with and influence contacts
Using Social Selling Solutions: Taking advantage of innovative selling solutions such as LinkedIn Sales Navigator
What is Social Selling?
Leveraging your social brand to fill your pipeline with the right people,
insights and relationships.
Social Selling Defined:
Leveraging your social brand to fill your pipeline with the right people,
insights and relationships.
Social Selling Defined:
Becoming a Social Selling Expert
5 Steps to Becoming a Social Selling Expert
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Developing a Reputation: Building a strong online reputation that showcases your experience and increases your credibility
Gathering Intelligence: Researching social information to prepare for sales conversations
Building your Network: Developing relationships with people who can share information and provide referrals
Offering Insights: Providing meaningful insights that earn opportunities to engage with and influence contacts
1. Build Your PROFILE
3. Gather INSIGHTS
2. Develop Your NETWORK
4. Contribute INSIGHTS
5. Use Social SOLUTIONSGain competitive advantage: Use targeted social media engagement and turn cold leads into warm prospects
1. Build a Strong Professional ProfileAdd a photo, experience and skills that showcase the brand of YOU
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Leading with InsightsResume to Reputation
2. Proactively Develop Your NetworkBuild trusted relationships who can support your professional objectives
TeamLink
Leverage Relationships
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3. Gather IntelligenceBe prepared for every interaction by researching contacts and companies
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4. Contribute InsightsShare ideas through status updates, and participate in groups
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Social Selling Evolution Doesn’t happen overnight
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Social Selling Evolution Doesn’t happen overnight
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HowHow do I get in?
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240Mmembers
2Bmember updates
per week
BillionsOf Connections
5. LinkedIn Enables Social Selling
WhatWhat to
talk about?
WhoWho are the Right People?
Macro to Micro:Best-in-class reps do these three things
LeverageRelationships
LeadWith Insights
FindRight People
Who are the right people?
My search yielded 124,789 search results!
I don’t have time to sort through all these searches
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By using the premium search filters, it gets much narrower…
Find Key Prospects1
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With TeamLink, I can narrow down to profiles that have connection paths to my team
Brian
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What to talk about?
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How do I get in?
Brian
2 Identifies a great prospect
This profile fits all my criteria, and has a connection to someone in our Canadian office
3 Asks teammate for an introduction
I have a meeting set up for Tuesday!
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Let’s take a look
Success Story: NetSuite
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“Sales Navigator is embedded
in almost every stage of the
sales process. It has become
mission-critical for our team.”
Jake Hofwegen, VP Global Sales Operations, Netsuite
Since using TeamLink, sales team has seen a seven-fold increase in second-degree connections
• Network grew from 15,730 to 115,891• InMail connects sales team directly to key decision-makers. • Sales reps are more excited about their jobs because they are
seeing fast results, which motivates them and creates a positive cycle
Increased number of relationships with clients
NetSuite Inc. is the industry’s leading vendor of cloud-based financials/ ERP software suites. NetSuite enables companies to manage core key business operations in a single system.
Time for prospecting
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Build Your PROFILE
In Summary
Gather INTELLIGENCE
Develop Your NETWORK
Contribute INSIGHTS
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Use Social Selling SOLUTIONS5
Just how Social is YOUR sales organisation……?
LinkedIn’s Social Selling Index
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First-of-its kind measure that ranks company utilisation of LinkedIn as a social selling tool.
http://promo.linkedinsocialsellingindex.com/register/
• Gain visibility into your company’s activities
• Uncover new opportunities
• Benchmark yourself against peers and competitors
Any Questions?
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