By now you should have begun your program of progressive engagement, timed by your recurring reminders and/or appropriate opportunities, with your classified contacts. A few things to keep in mind … You are in this for the long-haul and breaking into any new account takes time. Maintaining existing accounts requires your consistent effort. Your goal
True cold calling in B2B selling is probably fairly close to being a lost art. If not, it should be. I’m talking about finding a street and then knocking on every office door one-by-one without the slightest idea of what might lie behind that wooden, metal, or glass barrier. The same can be said of “smiling and
You have created your lists and taken an inventory of your engagement tools. You have also defined an engagement strategy. All that is left now is to monitor the updates from your chosen target accounts and then to engage with them where appropriate. Let’s get started! Monitor daily With your news feeds filtered to show
Let’s stop for a moment and check back on what we have accomplished so far. By now, you should have … Developed your buyer persona (your target market) and you have narrowed your contact list down to approximately 300 (insert your own number) of these that you wish to focus on exclusively. Further classified these
In our previous article, we identified and classified our top 300 contacts and began to organize our connections starting with LinkedIn. Today we will repeat these steps for our other social networks. While the only way to filter news updates in LinkedIn would be to hide those connections who you do not want to see,
As salespeople, every day we are looking to make new connections and we are actively fielding connection requests from others. This is all a part of social sales. While some of us may have a plan for maximizing the effectiveness of these activities, I am guessing that most do not. We just … do. In
