the art of selling with linkedin
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The Art of Selling with LinkedIn
BurkeGlobal Onboarding
Senior Sales Productivity ConsultantLinkedIn Sales Solutions
Today’s Agenda
Global State of Sales Survey
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Conventional Sales Tactics Are Losing Deals
Conventional Sales Wisdom
Conventional Sales Wisdom
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6.8 57done with the buying process before you know they ever started
% 90of decision makers say they never respond to cold outreach
%people are now involved in the average B2B buying decision
Corporate Executive Board 2013 – Winning The Consensus PurchaseCorporate Executive Board 2012 – New Decision Timeline
Harvard Business Review 2012 – Tweet Me, Friend Me, Make Me Buy. Decision makers are C-level
The buying process is changing
Each of you come away understanding the value of social selling and specific implementation
tactics to improve your sales process.
Modern Selling
What & Why Social Selling?
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Social Selling
In 2 or 3 sentences please describe your definition of Social Selling
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One Word:Relationships
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Reach more of the right
customers
Strengthening our
relationships with
customers
Billions of Members, Trillions of Data Points
How we do we define social selling?
Is it a resource, a methodology,
or a blend?
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- The Framework -
Social Prospecting & Outreach
Social Selling
List 2 or 3 of the most critical competencies of prospecting
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1. The practice of identifying & prioritizing the right prospects or individuals through social insights
2. Identifying the warmest path to an introduction
3. Utilizing insights to create a compelling reason to connect or to maintain and grow the relationship.
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• A better customer experience• More Strategic• Better conversions• Better Results • Conventional sales strategies are resulting in shrinking
pipelines or losing deals.
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Social Outreach Framework
Target
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Multithreading
Having a relationship with 5+ influential individuals within an organization.
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EXAMPLE: Target
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• Sales• Marketing• Operations• Sales Enablement• Finance
Seniority Level
• C-Level• Partner• VP• Director
Understand
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Warmest Path
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Warm Introductions
From: Sally Sales Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2017 8:53 AMTo: Jim VP of Sales Subject: Allison VP of Sales at XYZ Communications - Insight?
Hi Jim,
While using LinkedIn Sales Navigator, I was able to identify that you are a TeamLink connection with Allison VP of Sales at XYZ Communications. Given your relationship, do you think it would make sense to leverage an introduction to Allison?
To provide some context, I noticed that there their sales organization is fairly average in some key social metrics with regards to their industry peers. For example, they rank second to last in people searches on LinkedIn and they also rank considerably low on profile page views, with 17% versus their peers high of 51%. Typically this is a strong indicator that there may be value in discussing how LinkedIn Sales Solutions can benefit their business.
Let me know if you’d be open to providing an introduction, and if not, no worries at all. I can certainly always try and findanother way in!
Thanks in advance for your consideration,Sally
From: Jim VP of Sales Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2017 1:02 AMTo: [email protected]'Subject: Allison VP of Sales at XYZ Communications - Insight?
Hi Allison,
Hope you’ve been well.Please see below… one of my reps asked me for an introduction to you. It looks like XYZ is lagging their peers in social selling according to our data. Please let me know if you’d like an introduction to Sally so she can share more with you.
Thanks, Jim
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Engage
Warm Introductions
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Compelling Outreach Leading with Insights
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BREAK
How to Engage & Understand
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It’s all personal
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Messaging - Yesterday vs. Tomorrow
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ACTION OUTCOMEMessaging: 4 Stages
Problem
Solution
Beliefs
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Be Credible:
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The Who, What, Where, Why of Selling
Hypothesis of a buyerWho
What
Where
Why
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Teach
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| EXAMPLE |
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LEARN- AKA Discovery –
Goals of Discovery
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| ACTIVITY |
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Be a Legendary Storyteller!
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Tailored to client’s
use case
Quantified End
Result
Opportunity Cost of
Not Having Feature
– before you tell your story, make your point…
start by answering the question or making your key statement.
– the story MUST be about a person. That is
what brings the story to life. It’s important to introduce the
person and share a bit about them. It’s also effective to just ask
the listener to imagine a story where they are the key character.
– this is where you set up the pain point that
must be solved. It’s important to not just describe the pain
point, but to explain how it impacts the main character. How
does it make them feel or how does it impact them personally?
– your product solves the person’s problem.
Make sure you’re communicating how it does so.
– What is the lesson they should
remember?
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Storytelling Best Practices
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| ACTIVITY |
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Closing the First Call
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The Pre-Close & SOE: Your Upfront Contract
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Thanks Ed - pleasure connecting this morning. Below is a summary of what we discussed, and what we will be addressing in our next meeting Thursday, specific to your Sales Navigator use case. Attached as well is the pricing sheet and recommendations below on next steps, per our typical sales process. (Please feel free to add or modify if necessary.)
Goals:Increased revenue (2x growth plan) through hunting businessChallenges:• Selling to large prospect pool, hard to identify the right opportunities• Low prospect engagement; need to differentiate against big players in market• Long deal cycles; stuck at mid level (need to get to C -level)
Tentative Evaluation Timeline • Thurs 6/9: Next meeting to review the recommended Sales Navigator proposal
• Attendees: You, John, and Peter in Marketing• Thurs/Mon 6/9- 6/13: Decision on proposal
• If yes, identify any additional internal sign off required (does Marketing/Finance need to approve or a PO required?)
• 6/14: Contract generated and signed• 6/15: Intro to relationship manager, Alice Smith - Success plan put in place. • 6/16: LinkedIn customized kick-off training session with the team - Best practice sharing.
If all looks right, please just reply “Ok.” and respond to the question above.
Please let me know if you have any questions.
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Modern Selling is Inevitable
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Thank you