The presentation is designed for business leaders who already have an advanced knowledge of LinkedIn's solutions for sales teams.
Our Social Selling leadership morning showcases companies who are embracing social selling and transforming how their organisations approach to sales.
Our guests heard first hand from our customers AON, PTC and Vodafone, who shared their journey, insights and step by step advice on how they implemented successful social selling programmes.
2. Welcome to LinkedIn
Simon Kelly
Strategic Sales Leader
LinkedIn
Welcome toLinkedIn
Simon Kelly
Strategic Sales Leader
LinkedIn
Welcome toLinkedIn
Simon Kelly
Strategic Sales Leader
LinkedIn
Welcome toLinkedIn
Simon Kelly
Strategic Sales Leader
LinkedIn
3. This Morning’s Agenda
10.00: Welcome & Introduction
10.15: The 5 Best Practices for Implementing a Social Selling
Programme
10.40: A Story of Success: PTC's implementation of Social Selling
10.50: Customer Panel featuring Vodafone, AON and PTC
11.15: Q & A
11:30: Networking, hors d'oeuvres & live demo’s
4. Your Professional Brand on LinkedIn
19Countries
5Continents
Thank you for
being on LinkedIn
872 UnitedStates
140 Canada
80 UnitedKingdom
26 CzechRepublic
8 Netherlands
11264.2M 4892004
JoinedLinkedInon
November16,2004
Amongthefirst 4.2M
memberstojoinLI
Connectionson
LinkedIn
ProfileViews
DianeKramer
LINKEDINMOMENTS QUICKSTATS: YOU&YOURNETWORKSONLINKEDIN
YOURNETWORK
companiesconnectedto
NOVEMBER2005
CAMERONREID
Last90Days
your1st connectiononLinkedIn
EDUCATIONNETWORKSHOWYOUCOMPARE
PROFILEVIEWS
Yourankinthe
ENDORSEMENTS
Yourankinthe
41 30 23 10 8
AdamGrant (168,722followers)
Your Professional Brand on LinkedIn
19Countries
5Continents
Thank you for
being on LinkedIn
872 UnitedStates
140 Canada
80 UnitedKingdom
26 CzechRepublic
8 Netherlands
1126!4.2M" 489#2004$
JoinedLinkedInon
November16,2004
Amongthefirst 4.2M
memberstojoinLI
Connectionson
LinkedIn
ProfileViews
DianeKramer
LINKEDINMOMENTS% QUICKSTATS: YOU&YOURNETWORKSONLINKEDIN&
YOURNETWORK
companiesconnectedto
NOVEMBER2005
CAMERONREID
Last 90Days
your1st connectiononLinkedIn
( EDUCATIONNETWORKS% HOWYOUCOMPARE
PROFILEVIEWS
Yourankinthe
ENDORSEMENTS
Yourankinthe
41 30 23 10 8
AdamGrant (168,722followers)
5. 75%
of B2B Buyers use social media
to make purchasing decisions
75%
of B2B Buyers use social media
to make purchasing decisions
6. 95%
Of B2B decision-makers expect
new or different insights from
sales professionals
95%
Of B2B decision-makers expect
new or different insights from
sales professionals
7. 5X
More likely to engage with sales
professionals via warm
introduction than cold outreach.
5X
More likely to engage with sales
professionals via warm
introduction than cold outreach.
8. Social Selling Defined
Create a professional brand
Find the right people
Engage with insights
Build strong relationships
Social Selling Defined
Create a professional brand1
Find the right people2
Engage with insights3
Build strong relationships4
10. Top Social Sellers in the room
Source: LinkedIn Internal Data – June 2015
1
Alison Burrell
Sales & Marketing Manager, G4S Risk Consulting Ltd 95
2
Paul Lewis
Global Social Media Marketing Manager, Pitney Bowes 91
3
Alexander Low
Head of Client Development, JLL 87
4
Jason Emanuel
Business Development Manager, Duedil 87
5
Mark Edge
RVP of Sales & Managing Director UK, Brainloop AG 85
Top Social Sellers in the room
Source: LinkedIn Internal Data – June 2015
1
Alison Burrell
Sales & Marketing Manager, G4S Risk Consulting Ltd 95
2
Paul Lewis
Global Social Media Marketing Manager, Pitney Bowes 91
3
Alexander Low
Head of Client Development, JLL 87
4
Jason Emanuel
Business Development Manager, Duedil 87
5
Mark Edge
RVP of Sales & Managing Director UK, Brainloop AG 85
11.
12. The 5 Best Practices for Implementing a
Social Selling Programme
Anita Windisman
Sales Product Consultant
LinkedIn
13. 5 Best Practices for Implementing
a Social Selling Programme
1. Be Clear on the Business Need
1. Select an Executive Sponsor
2. Ensure Sales and Marketing Are Aligned
3. Assign a Champion Committed to Project Execution
4. Focus on Engagement and Adoption
14. Session Goals
Appreciate strategic and tactical requirements for a
successful social selling programme
Know which stakeholders to involve in implementation
Understand how to drive usage and engagement of
LinkedIn Sales Navigator
15. Strategic
What are your business goals?
Faster sales cycle?
More focused sales pipeline?
Better sales intelligence?
1. Be Clear on the Business Need and Agree
Upon Criteria for Success
16. 1. Be Clear on the Business Need and Agree
Upon Criteria for Success
Strategic
17. 2. Select an Executive Sponsor Champion to
Drive the Programme
Strategic
19. 3. Ensure Sales and Marketing Are Aligned
with a Common Goal
Strategic
20. 3. Ensure Sales and Marketing Are Aligned
with a Common Goal
Every sales rep is a
brand ambassador
Strategic
21. 4. Assign a Champion Committed to
Project Execution
Tactical
22. 4. Assign a Champion Committed to
Project Execution
Tactical
23. 5. Focus on Engagement and Adoption
Create a Leader Board
Tactical
5. Focus on Engagement and Adoption
Create a Leader Board
Tactical
24. 5. Focus on Engagement and Adoption
Adoption Competitions:
Territory Planning Contest
- Get reps into the habit of saving Accounts and Leads
LinkedIn Success Story Contest
- Uncover and share stories that highlight the value of
Sales Navigator
Best LinkedIn Profile Contest
- Recognise reps who best represent your brand
Tactical
25. 5 Best Practices for Implementing
a Social Selling Programme
Strategic
1. Be clear on the business need and criteria for
success
2. Select an Executive Sponsor champion
3. Ensure that Sales and Marketing are aligned
Tactical
4. Assign a champion who is committed to project
execution
5. Focus on engagement and adoption
Tactical
Strategic
26. Implementing
Social Selling
6 Continents 500 licenses 20X ROI
Julian Lee
Sr. Director, Sales Enablement
PTC, Inc.
Implementing
Social Selling
6 Continents 500 licenses 20X ROI
Julian Lee
Sr. Director, Sales Enablement
PTC, Inc.
27. Set a Vision
Get Senior Leadership on
board
Combine Scale with
Regional Support
Make it easy to share
content
Use SSI as your yardstick
ACHIEVING SOCIAL
SELLING MOMENTUM
Reinforce your vision at
every turn
28. Victoria Mason
Sr. Marketing Manager
AON
Julian Lee
Sr. Director, Sales Enablement
PTC, Inc.
Tony Finn
Head of Solution Sales, Northern Europe
Vodafone
Featured Panelists
Victoria Mason
Sr. Marketing Manager
AON
Julian Lee
Sr. Director, Sales Enablement
PTC, Inc.
Tony Finn
Head of Solution Sales, Northern Europe
Vodafone
Featured Panelists
So, enough about LinkedIn. Why are we here today?
If you think about buyer and seller relationships…it used to be very 1:1, face to face relationships where sales reps were limited to the ‘who they knew’ and referrals from existing customers. With the advent of technology like the internet, buyers can find lots of information about what they need. Buyers are increasingly relying on the internet to do their own research. Technology also made it easier for sales professionals to bombard buyers (with emails, with phone calls). However….we’ve veered too far. Let me share with you a staggering fact…
50% of B2B decision-makers /influencers say they aren’t the right person to contact about new business when sales reps contact them. That’s 1 out of every 2 people.
I want to take a step back and start thinking about…how…the dynamic between sellers and buyers have somewhat changed. [key takeaway: we want to bring 1:1 relationships to scale]
Family-run company
As companies have become less intimate and less personal, companies realized that, in order to compete, they had to try to maintain the level of trust that a family-run company had with his or her customers. That led to massive investments in brands – Wal-Mart, Oracle. They have built brands so that you know they’re high quality, reliable, etc.
Every customer couldn’t know and trust the owner but every customer could know and trust the brand, the thinking went.
But in the new economy, constant connectivity, someone somewhere knows someone somewhere…and this leads…to personalized relationships…done at scale.
Recall that buyers have access to the same information that you do on the Internet to find information about products/services. They need you to help them solve business challenges and problems that arise. They need you to educate them on what’s new in the industry and what their competitors are doing.
With so many offers to choose from, we found that B2B buyers were 5X more likely to engage with sales professionals who were introduced to them through someone in their professional network.
Alison Burrell = 95
Paul Lewis = 91
Rebecca Elaine Smith = 90
Jason Emanuel = 87
Mark Edge = 85
Simon: introduce Julian Lee following Anita’s presentation slides.
I am delighted to have Julian Lee, Senior Director of Sales Enablement at PTC with us this morning. Julian has overseen a 500 seat global deployment across PTC’s global sales operations and will give us an inside look at their transformative journey with Social Selling and the implementation of Sales Navigator.
- Sum up missions: Sales Productivity. Process, People & Technology drive Sales Productivity at PTC.
This is from 10:30 – 11:00, and is indended to be an informal Q&A (perhaps Ariel might start things off with asking Deep to comment on a certain discussion area).
With predominant representation from Sales Solutions in the room (18 LSS versus 5 LTS), and the LSS Sales executives not able to yet share information with clients as around the new LSS Sales Connect product, they wondered if this is something Deep can bring up tomorrow?
Many of the companies in the room are working with a small number (a few hundred) of licenses in EMEA and the reps are hoping to grow this number.
Calling out Teamlink and how other companies are leveraging Teamlink to find the warmest path to a prospect
Many of these people are going to be evangelizing our LSS products in their business – perhaps talking about how to drive innovation and change in Enterprise and lead innovation
This is from 10:30 – 11:00, and is indended to be an informal Q&A (perhaps Ariel might start things off with asking Deep to comment on a certain discussion area).
With predominant representation from Sales Solutions in the room (18 LSS versus 5 LTS), and the LSS Sales executives not able to yet share information with clients as around the new LSS Sales Connect product, they wondered if this is something Deep can bring up tomorrow?
Many of the companies in the room are working with a small number (a few hundred) of licenses in EMEA and the reps are hoping to grow this number.
Calling out Teamlink and how other companies are leveraging Teamlink to find the warmest path to a prospect
Many of these people are going to be evangelizing our LSS products in their business – perhaps talking about how to drive innovation and change in Enterprise and lead innovation