Today let’s discuss the business of social. Social media has caffeinated both our customers and our businesses. Everybody is wide awake, communicating at all hours, and operating at a frenetic pace. This increased activity presents opportunities for smart businesses and challenges (perhaps overwhelming challenges) for less focused entities.. The two key questions that were
You’ve spent the last two years diligently working your social networks and, in return for your efforts, what do you have to show for it? Nada. Butkus. No sales and not even a sales suspect let alone a qualified prospect. The same result might hold true for your in-person business-development activities. Bad luck? First off,
One of the most wonderful and effective ways ins social sales that you can engage with your clients via social media is by helping them to build their own businesses. Your efforts in this regard will trump free donuts any day of the week! We can do this by promoting their business to others within our networks and
Our last two articles have discussed the two most important disciplines in social sales as being prospecting and relationship-building. Drilling down a little deeper, there are important steps involved in each and we call these steps F.A.C.E.S. and today we will focus on the most popular social business platform, LinkedIn. Before we get started, what
As part of our Social Sales series, last month we defined Social CRM. Now let’s start leveraging this tool in order to close more sales and the best way to get started on that is to get ourselves organized! Salespeople, by and large, are notoriously bad record keepers. As far as that goes, a lot of salespeople
How To Gain Social Insights From Your Most Valuable Asset – Your Customers!
Unless your customer is a chicken, and you are a “certified chicken hypnotist”, perhaps this type of focus group would not be your first choice for gaining valuable insights from your customer base. Besides, there are many more avenues and tools that are sitting right there at your fingertips which are much more accessible, more
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