How to Use Social Selling Tools for Competitive Intelligence
Do you ever wonder why your sales reps lose deals to your competitors? Jamie Shanks, managing partner at Sales for Life, says you can use social selling tools to capitalize on the goldmine of...
View ArticleOracle’s Social Selling Expert Reveals B2B Secrets
How do your prospects make buying decisions? Do they sit around waiting for sales reps to call them or do they seek out information from trustworthy sources? Today’s B2B buyers find the information...
View ArticleHow to Use LinkedIn to Make Smarter Sales Calls
Does cold calling still work? It depends how you define it. The original definition of cold calling was reaching out to people you don’t know anything about and trying to sell them something. “Anybody...
View ArticleHow ADP Uses Social Selling for Fun and Profit (But Mostly Profit)
Buyers are becoming more social, so sellers should become more social, too. Liz Gelb-O’Connor, VP of Inside Sales Strategy and Growth at ADP, shared some of ADP’s success stories and social selling...
View ArticleHow to Build a Social Selling Culture in 4 Simple Steps
When it comes to building a social selling culture, most companies fall into one of two camps: they either think it’s going to be way harder or way easier than it actually is. Because many sales...
View ArticleWhat You Don’t Know About Social Selling Can Kill Your Career #df13
What’s your social selling IQ? Social selling has been a buzzword for years, but many sales pros still struggle to understand what it is, why they should care, and how they can use it to close more...
View ArticleTop 40 Klout Scores at the 2014 Sales Acceleration Summit
What’s Klout? Do you know what your Klout score is? If you want to be known as an influencer in the social media world, but can’t answer these two questions off the top of your head, you’re probably...
View ArticleAre You Social Selling or Just Being Salesy on Social Media?
I don’t want to mince words. But there is a striking difference between social selling and selling on social media. Although the difference may seem subtle and benign, it’s an important difference to...
View ArticleDeloitte Study Identifies InsideSales.com as No. 1 in Social Selling
The social engagement experts at Insightpool conducted a study of the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 companies to see how well they use “social currency.” InsideSales.com ranked No. 1 overall based on an...
View ArticleThe 7 Levels of Social Media Mastery
Have you figured out how to use social media to grow your business or rally your supporters around an important cause? If not, you’re definitely not alone. Social media has become such a hot topic that...
View Article7 LinkedIn Mistakes That Kill Sales
Sales teams are increasingly turning to social media for prospecting and attracting the attention of buyers. Sadly, though, many sales professionals are using social platforms poorly, unable to break...
View Article3 Steps to Driving Sales Conversations and Revenue With Social Selling
Every sales development representative (SDR) wants to achieve results. But how do you drive business and book meetings faster? Through social selling. Take today, for example. We won a customer...
View ArticleLinkedIn Social Selling Tips From Top Social Sellers
LinkedIn’s research shows that sales professionals who use social selling get better results. These numbers represent just a sampling of the mounting evidence proving the undeniable value of social...
View ArticleLinkedIn InMail and Email Secrets for a 60% Response Rate
Sales success doesn’t happen by accident. So, when I finished at 112% of quota and landed in first place on my team, naturally my manager wanted to know what I was doing differently. My answer was...
View ArticleSocial Selling and the Law of Reciprocity
“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.” — Aesop Early in my career, I worked as a copywriter at a marketing agency. I met an account manager who wrote surprisingly eloquent emails....
View ArticleSocial Sellers: The Modern-Day 49ers
In the spring of 1848, prospectors started to mine land in California in hopes of striking it rich — and they did. For almost a year, these ordinary prospectors averaged daily gold finds worth 10 to 15...
View ArticleThe Influencer Promotion Strategy That Drove 30,000 Event Registrations
In May, InsideSales.com hosted its annual Sales Acceleration Summit (SAS), the world’s largest virtual summit for sales and marketing leaders. The event featured more than 80 top sales and marketing...
View ArticleTop Sales Experts Weigh In on Delivering Value Through Social Selling
Social selling is still establishing itself as a field. As a result, many sales professionals struggle to understand how it fits in the sales process and how best to maximize its efficiency. To provide...
View ArticleBeyond Cold Calling [Webinar]
This article was originally posted by Koka Sexton on the LinkedIn Sales Solutions Blog. Using social networks like LinkedIn have proven to be impactful over the years for sales professionals. Cold...
View Article3 Simple Ways to Up Your Social Selling Game
A few weeks ago, our fearless leader, Dave Elkington, asked the leadership team to become more connected thought leaders in our online communities. How does one become more connected? Wikipedia...
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