Posts Tagged ‘Twitter’
How Content Curation Will Make You Win in Sales w/Stephen Walsh @Anders Pink
Sharing content with your network is a big part of the social selling process. Sharing content can help build your brand, create trust, provide value, and help create a following. But, what content is the right content? Should you be creating your own or curating others content? The answer is both. Sales today is about creating…
Read MoreThe Who, The What, and the Why of Social Selling
Are you getting tired of social selling? We’ve decided to speak our mind about the truth of social selling and ask industry experts to explain the who, the what, and the why of social selling. In this episode, we debate the fundamentals of social selling with Larry Levine, founder of Social Sales Academy. We put…
Read MoreThe Digital Sales Revolution: Are You In Or Out?
[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text] No one can argue the world in which we live is a digital world. But, what does that mean for sales? Many people have interpreted digital sales to mean social selling and have argued social selling is and will be the only way to sell. Mario Martinez, CEO of Vengreso, argues that…
Read MoreThe Truth About Social Selling
We might have had a little fight, Koka and I. Fight might be too strong of a word, a gentleman’s disagreement is probably a better term. I started the debate with a post poking the bear, declaring that social selling was dead. I felt my argument had some merit. I debated that the word…
Read MoreUnraveling the Sales Technology Stack
Companies have made significant investments to date in tools and technologies to enable sales. Usually, the core of this investment is a CRM system deployed with high expectations of streamlined selling and new insights. Unfortunately, CRM systems are rarely fully utilized and often fall short of these expectations. What is needed beyond the CRM to…
Read MoreTop 40 Klout Scores at the 2014 Sales Acceleration Summit
What’s Klout? Do you know what your Klout score is? If you want to be known as an influencer in the social media world, but can’t answer these two questions off the top of your head, you’re probably missing out. Klout is as a website and mobile app that uses social media analytics to rank its…
Read More5 Webinars to Help Your Inside Sales Department
Are you looking for a good webinar to help your sales team? Maybe you’re trying to figure out how to sell on social media networks or are looking at hiring a new inside sales executive. Whatever it is you’re trying to do to improve and build your inside sales team, this blog will hopefully point…
Read MoreInside Sales – 5 Steps to Use Social Media to Access Decision Makers
In past articles, we’ve talked about the benefits of getting direct dial numbers for decision makers in order to increase contact ratios. Well, here’s another tip to help boost your contact ratios and avoid gatekeepers: Contact the decision maker via social media (LinkedIn, Twitter or Google+ specifically). It may seem like an indirect form of…
Read MoreHootSuite, Buffer and TweetDeck: How Sales Reps can Use Social Media Automation
Social media is a powerful tool, but sometimes it’s a little overwhelming. Even the automation tools that are supposed to help often seem even more confusing than the social platforms they help automate. If you’ve found yourself dabbling in the social-automation world, the most important rule to keep in mind is to not abuse and overuse the…
Read MoreHow Inside Sales Reps Can Use PR to Help Drive Leads
Have you noticed something with remote sales? It’s becoming more social. As social media has taken a greater hold on our everyday routines, it makes sense that it has blended into the professional part of people’s lives too. For sales reps, knowing how to use social media for promotion and generating good content for leads…
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