Being knowledgeable about social media is no longer optional. Whether you want to build your personal brand, grow your business, or expand your professional networks, you need to find, engage, and influence key decision makers. This session will help you understand the resources available through LinkedIn, Twitter and beyond, and the best strategies to curate content that conveys your thought leadership, expertise and interests. Whether you are new to this realm, or consider yourself a digital native, this session will provide you with new techniques for raising your social media clout.
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Social Selling: How to Find, Engage, and Influence Key Decision Makers - Andrew Jenkins, Volterra Consulting
1. Social Selling Session One
Developed for:Andrew Jenkins
Cell: 647-262-4242
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2. Social Selling
It’s not who you know but how much you know
about them
Andrew Jenkins
Cell: 647-262-4242
ajenkins@volterraconsulting.com
@ajenkins
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6. About Me
• B.A. Econ, B.F.A. Film Production, M.B.A.
(Rotman, 2003)
• Taught Entrepreneurship at OCADU
• Teach Digital Strategy at U of T’s SCS
• Former Head of Social Media Strategy for RBC
• E-commerce Pioneer
• Produced a documentary exhibited at TIFF,
Melbourne and Sydney as well as broadcast on
Channel 4 (UK) and SBS-TV in Australia
7. ASSUMPTIONS FOR TODAY
• This is not about abandoning your current efforts. It’s
about extending them.
• Everything I share with you is optional.
• You don’t have to be using InMail or tweeting by the end
of the day but I hope you have a new appreciation for
their power.
• We will make it interactive and make the most of our time
together to answer as many of your questions as
possible.
16. WHAT WILL PEOPLE FIND?
Adding a professional picture means 11x more likely your
profile will be viewed and a 40% InMail response rate
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20. PROFILE TIPS
• Avoid oddities in your profile pictures like backgrounds and
remnants of other people (e.g. hands)
• A bad profile is like making a bad first impression without knowing
it
21. THE NEW PROFILE
Use a vanity url to improve people’s ability to find you
and it doesn’t hurt from a personal brand point of view either
37. PROFILE BEST PRACTICES
• Summaries shorter than 40 words will not trigger inclusion in a
search
• Don't talk about yourself in the 3rd person
• Talk about accomplishments over responsibilities
• Use media to create a rich profile by incorporating presentations,
brochures, documents, and videos
• Get recommendations and endorsements*
• Check out profiles of similar people and see what they are doing
right and wrong
*Recommendations and/or endorsements may constitute non-
compliance
40. MORE BEST PRACTICES
• Research keywords and sprinkle them throughout your summary,
headline, skills and expertise and consider synonyms too
• You are allowed up to 50 Skills
• Avoid being similar to co-workers
• List the location where you want to be found and not necessarily
where you live
• Add accomplishments, projects, test scores, courses completed,
certifications, publishing, volunteerism, patents
• Expand on your degrees/education to tie-in keywords
41. Your LinkedIn Profile has 13
times more chances to get
viewed if you add your skills.
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43. According to LinkedIn, This Is The
Criteria For A Complete Profile:
• A profile photo
• List of jobs or positions
with descriptions
• 5 or more skills
• A summary
• Fill out your industry and
postal code
• Where you went to school
• 50+ connections