1. Ryan Crawford
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LinkedIn | Internet | SF Bay Area
Connections: 536 | Recommendations: 2
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3. Buyers have changed the game.
Emergence of the Social B2B Buyer
75% of IBM’s B2B buyers will use social media to
inform their purchase decision.
Your Customers are More Informed
57% of a purchase decision is made before
speaking to a sales person.
Your Customers are Less Responsive
210 Million people on the US “Do Not Call” list.
4.5% Avg. Dial-to-Conversation Rate
1IBMBuyer’s Preference Study, 2011
2Corporate Executive Board, 2011
3www.ftc.gov, 2011
4Connect and Sell, 2011
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4. Are you being left behind?
Don’t rely on ‘chance’ for your
Don’t be left out of the conversation. team to adopt social selling.
Best-in-class
60%
56%
Average
Sales
57% of Decision Engaged
50%
40%
Laggards
26%
30%
18%
20%
Decision is made by customer
10%
before engaging a sales person.
Does your company use social selling and social
media tools to achieve sales effectiveness?
Source: Corporate Executive Board., 2011. Source: Aberdeen Research, Social Selling Impact Study, Spring 2012.
Don’t waste an incredible company
asset – your connections.
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5. The Evolution to Social Selling
Then Now
Find
Buy Lists Leverage Professional Networks
Limited to Private Rolodexes Expand to Company Social Network
Spray & Pray to Find Decision-makers Target Decision-makers
Relate
Speed through Contacts Records Focus on Real People
Limited to CRM Record Gather Intelligence from Internet
Pile On More Data Discover More Insight
Engage
Pound through Cold Calling Leverage Warm Introductions
Push the Sales Pitch Have a Meaningful Conversations
Drive Cookie-cutter Sales Process Collaborate in Buying Process
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6. How do you transform to Social Selling?
Find Relate Engage
Organize & Research Generate, Contribute, Personalize Connections
Prospects & Leverage Insights & Conversations
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7. REP
How Sales Navigator can transform your business
Find Relate Engage
Organize & Research Generate, Contribute, Personalize Connections &
Prospects & Leverage Insights Conversations
• Lead Builder • Profile Organizer • InMails
• Search Filters • Search Alerts • Introductions
• Team Link • Who Viewed Me • 3rd Degree Connections
• CRM Integration • Anytime, Anywhere
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8. Proven Success
“I can point to over a dozen deals that
were either created or positively
100% influenced by our use of LinkedIn’s
87% 81% 70%
Sales Navigator”.
80%
60% “Understanding the background of our
target buyers and leveraging our
40% collective network with LinkedIn
helps us build relationships and
20% access executives in a whole different
way.”
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Information is Helped me Helped me
only available identify achieve my
on Sales decision sales goals "More than 80 percent of our reps found
Navigator makers important LinkedIn information that
they would not have known otherwise.”
Source: CSO Insights, “Sales Navigator Research Results, March 2011”
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Notas do Editor
The single most revolutionary change to the selling process is the availability of prospect information on Internet…your salespeople are going to the Internet and they are spending a tremendous amount of time doing it……without advanced technology to support social selling, the only lead enrichment you can expect is the correction of misspelled names phone numbersElevate the level of all salespeople
So we’ve already discussed how social selling . What’s preventing How does Social Selling impact my day to day? How does it solve for the business challenges? Rep to insert verbal commentary and customize slide based on identified customer pain points from discovery call. “Identification” – Discover the right accounts , the right decision makers. Pain points = High Staff Turnover, Org Changes. Prioritizing time and effort Voice over: “Insights” –Acting on quality leads, gaining insights into new leads, territories and accounts and later contributing insights for the customer. Pain Points: stale dataVoice over: Gain Insights into new leads and accounts with intelligence form self-authored profiles, Groups, Who’s Viewed My Profile, Company Data. Lead Builder prioritizes your leads and accounts based on a number of premium search filters including social proximity. Engagement –how to now engage with likelihood that you’ll receive a response and can later grow this account by building reputation as trusted advisor. Pain Points: getting responses from decision makers, long sales cycles, earning trust, competitive displacement
How does Social Selling impact my day to day? How does it solve for the business challenges? “Identify” – Discover the right accounts , the right decision makers. Pain points = High Staff Turnover, Org Changes. Prioritizing time and effort Solution: Lead Builder prioritizes your leads and accounts based on a number of premium search filters including social proximity. “Develop” –Acting on quality leads, gaining insights into new leads, territories and accounts and continually contributing insights for the customer. Pain Points = stale datasolution: Gain Insights into new leads and accounts with intelligence from self-authored profiles, Groups, Who’s Viewed My Profile, Company Data“Engage” –how to now engage with likelihood that you’ll receive a response Pain Points: getting responses from decision makers Solution: InMails, LinkedIn’s trusted messaging system, offers you the opportunity to deliver a personalized (and relevant) message to a prospect not in your immediate network, via a warm introduction (73% increased likelihood of a response when referencing a common connection in an InMail)“Close and Grow”: Close and grow account as trusted not transactional advisor Pain Points: long sales cycle, earning trust, competitive displacement Solution: Be recognized as a trusted advisor by continually sharing insights.