The document discusses how social media can revolutionize sales. It provides statistics on major social media platforms like LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook and explains how to use them for business purposes like lead generation, marketing, and customer engagement. The key takeaways are that social media allows businesses to reach more potential customers, generate value through content, and focus on communication instead of direct sales pitches. The future of sales lies in using social media to build relationships and influence customers throughout the buying process.
2. High-level agenda
What is Social Media
Lock in Sales with LinkedIn
How to get result with Twitter
Blogging Role of Facebook in Business Development
Communicate Online & Offline
Attracting Attention to online Presence
Time Management
Adjust Your Schedule
Future of Sales
Book Review
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4. What is Social Media ?
Social media includes web- and mobile-based technologies which are used to
turn communication into interactive dialogue among
organizations, communities, and individuals. - Wikipedia
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5. Real Life Examples
Dell sold $3,000,000 worth
20% reduction in call center activity
of computer on twitter
BK investment < $50,000
Ford’s 25% of marketing send on Social
Return > $ 400,000
Media, no car loan from US
Government
Pizza hut got 68%
sales from twitter 15K social media investment
85% new customer Website Traffic 300%,
from twitter 20% sales increase
24% sales growth in sales DQ Crossed member
up goal by 700,000
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6. Sales Growth using Social Marketing
71.4 percent of businesses grow on social Media
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7. Game Changers : Six Rules
Abandon Traditional Prospecting
Build your Sphere of Influence
Become a marketer First and Seller Next
Become a value Generator
Build your Personal Band
Work the Window
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10. LinkedIn Statistics
Founded Dec 22, 2002
47.6 Million Unique Visitors
Over 150 Million active users
More than 200 countries
Top Professional network
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11. LinkedIn as a Marketing Strategy
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17. Twitter Statistics
Founded March 21, 2006
42 Million Unique Visitors
Over 500 Million Active Users
Over 340 Million tweets daily
Top 10 most visited site
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18. Profile at Twitter
Increase Brand Value
Better Customer Service
Increase Sales
Increase Profitability
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19. Tweets and Followers at Twitter
Tweets: 2,318
Followers :1,099,825
2010 Sales
US : 845,000 USD
Worldwide: 1,700,000 USD
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20. Non-Profit at Twitter
Organizing Communities to Fight Cancer
5,000 events nationwide
3.5 million participants
Raised $400 million
$148.5 million research investment
15% Women 23% Men death rate decreased since 1990s
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22. Facebook Statistics
664,032,460 active users
9.6% of the world’s population
Top nations: US, UK, Brazil
100% of Monaco
58% of Fortune 500 Companies
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25. Community Engagement
Fans = Dollars
Share Advice
Post Interesting Articles
“Like” others
Engage in Groups
Ads- Facebook Analytics
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31. Best Practices
Bio
Simplicity
Engagement
Frequency
Value
Relevance
Balance
Don’t Pitch
Link
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32. Visibility and Become a Blogging Black Belt
Update Social Media Toolbox
Metrics Keywords
You’re a natural
Content building
Upstanding citizen
Share
Focus
Keep it short
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38. Netiquette
DON’T USE ALL CAPS
Be real
Spell-check
Research
Profanity
Have a personality
Be Nice
Think before speak
Humor
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39. Forum Etiquette
If you can’t say
something
nice, don’t say
anything at all
Don’t be
overly
aggressive
Critique Carefully
Don’t
offend
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40. Approach
Don’t criticize, condemn, complain
Give honest and sincere appreciation
Dale Carnegie
Arouse in the other person an eager want.
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41. 6 Ways to Get People to Like You
Listen
Smile
Remember a names
Talk in like terms
Make others feel important, sincerely
Become genuinely interested in other
people
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42. First Degree and Second Degree
Always start with written
correspondence
Utilize your first degree
contact
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43. Inquiry Letters
Have Strong Opening
Highlight Benefits; Use Bullets
Use a polite, assumptive closing
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45. Social Media Saves You Time
Reach More
People
Quick and Easy Generate Value and Get More
Distribution Build Your Brand Done
Pull instead of
Push
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46. Four Requirements
Patience
Discipline Have Fun
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47. Three Steps
2. Plan the Week
Selling
1. Plan the Day Social Media
25% Admin
15% 60%
3. Learn to say “no”
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49. LinkedIn Update & Answers
Start the day with LinkedIn
Show appreciation to others
Update yourself with latest news
Launched: 4 January 2007
2 Million Answers
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50. LinkedIn Events
Promote an upcoming event
Create a Professional Network
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51. Twitter Etiquette
“Don’t Criticize, condemn, or complain “ – Dale Carnegie
Post One or two positive quote
Motivate People
A little is enough
Position yourself as source of positivity
Schedule to tweets in the morning
Spend some time on twitter on daily basis
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54. Book Review
Book is good for people who never used social media
Very few case studies
Detailed activities on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn
No example on Non Profit
Links fundamentals of B2B to social media
Google+ or YouTube should be covered
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55. Generate Value. All else, will follow. (Push vs. Pull)
Fundamentals haven’t changed.
Interact outside of the transactional window.
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Summary:A recent study from Roost, a social marketing platform for small businesses, showed that more than 71.4 percent of small businesses they surveyed believe social media is more effective than paid search. Also noteworthy, is that only 15 percent of those surveyed found paid search as the most effective tool in their marketing mix.Reference: 1. wildfireperformancemarketing.: http://wildfireperformancemarketing.com/willyoursalesincreaseusinglocalsocialmedia
Summary:LinkedIn is a social networking website for people in professional occupations. Founded in December 2002 and launched in May 2003, it is mainly used for professional networking. As of February 9, 2012, LinkedIn reports more than 150 million registered users in more than 200 countries and territories. The site is available in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, Romanian, Russian, Turkish, Japanese, Czech, Polish, Korean, Bahasa Indonesia, and Bahasa Malaysia. Quantcast reports LinkedIn has 21.4 million monthly unique U.S. visitors and 47.6 million globally. Reference: Linked.comWikipedia
Summary: Linked In is an excellent marketing tool where we can connect with professional colleagues, meet new people, find recommended services and find new contacts in your current network. Currently, you can reach “more than 12 million” professionals on the service, including all of the top FTSE 100 companies.Rankability deploy the best methods and strategies using LinkedIn to increase the visibility of your business, generate sales leads and supporting SEO effort.Companies utilize linked in paid advertising, LinkedIn answers, linked in search, services and groups to announce and share messages, connect with people and propagate your brand across a number of verticals.Reference: Rankability: http://www.rankability.com
Case Study Summary: McDonald's is the world's leading global foodservice retailer with more than 33,500 locations serving approximately 64 million customers in 119 countries each day. More than 80% of McDonald's restaurants worldwide are owned and operated by independent local men and women. McDonald's franchisees employ 1.8 million people worldwide. Objective of using social media: Implement a dynamic urban event and social marketing campaign in multiple markets to increase consumer awareness, drive participating store visits, promote product offerings, and complement the retailer’s upcoming television and print campaign.Result: As a result of this campaign McDonalds experienced a significant increase in product awareness among the targeted urban demographic. The McCafe brand received over 2,500,000 impressions via social networks.Reference:LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/mcdonald's-corporationRenegadebusinesssolution: http://renegadebusinesssolutions.com/past-clients/rbs-case-studies/mcdonalds
Twitter Summary : Founded March 21, 2006As of April, 2012 Twitter has been receiving over 42 million unique visitors. 500 million active users as of 2012.10 most visited on the Internet handling over 1.6 billion search queries per dayReference: Wikipedia : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter#Featurespagetron: http://pagetron.com/top-social-networking-sites
Summary : JetBlue was among the first corporate companies to join Twitter in 2007. Now in 2010 JetBlue has nearly a million followers and is often cited as an example of small corporate twittering. It’s goal when joining Twitter was to simply, help customers. They eventually found out what the dos and don’ts were for their customers. How did they do this? By asking. The company found that customer service tweets generated more followers and replies. When tweeting about a press release they found no response. JetBlue then began asking question in order to find out what the customers wanted. This approach has made them quite successful. JetBlue tore downs the wall between the customer and the brand by implementing what was to be just an experiment, Twitter.Reference: Kylelacy: www.kylelacy.comJetblue : http://blog.jetblue.com/index.php/2012/01/19/a-day-in-the-life-social-media/
Summary: Linkin Park is an American rock band from Agoura Hills, California. Formed in 1996, the band rose to international fame with their debut album, Hybrid Theory, which was certified Diamond by the RIAA in 2005 and multi-platinum in several other countries. Linkin Park Users Twitter.com for Social Networking purpose. It helped to increase followers and make profit. Reference: WikipediaLinkinPark.com
Case Study Summary: American Cancer Society tweets about cancer research, specific types of cancer news, and information. They also connect to RelayForLife, a Twitter account that provides updates on one of the American Cancer Society’s largest fundraising and awareness events. As of October 15, 2010 they have over 85,000 followers. They have created an online community on Twitter by engaging in conversation and listening to what users are saying.Challenge: At ACS, Planned Giving Officers (PGOs) are responsible for raising funds for the fight against cancer. Because the funds raised vary considerably from PGO to PGO, the ACS wanted to understand the drivers of success and what behaviors and characteristics made some people more effective and productive than others.The Role of Network Analysis:1. Critical success factors for high-performing PGOs;2. Characteristics of high performers that could be replicated;3. Insight into donor characteristics;4. Performance of the overall PGO network.Reference: kylelacy.comnonprofittechblog.orgIgnitesocialmedia: http://www.ignitesocialmedia.com/social-media-examples/american-cancer-society-more-birthdays-%E2%80%93-non-profit-social-media-marketing-example-2/Activatenetworks: http://www.activatenetworks.net/assets/CaseStudies/Activate-Networks-Case-Study-ACS-Performance-Drivers.pdfcancer.org: http://www.cancer.org/acs/groups/content/@greatlakes/documents/webcontent/acspc-028362.pdf
16% of their total time online on Facebook.http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-09-26/tech/30203311_1_facebook-aol-search-giantcebook-aol-search-gianthttp://www.technovalley.in/facebook-global-user-stats-infographic/allfacebook.com/facebook-pages-fortune500_b86182http://www.spiral16.com/blog/2012/04/how-the-fortune-500-companies-use-social-media-infographic/Interesting factsCaution: Not all companies have stated social media policies and those who do may prohibit using social media for business purposes
Create a separate profile for work and play. Since facebook is mainly a personal application, you should be sure to keep your keg stand pictures separate from your work life. Be sure to include things like your interests, even for the your work profile, it helps people relate, if people can connect to you a on a persona level they’re more likely to think of you more often (page 83) most importantly, have contact informationBe sure to post things regularly but not too often (people may start to block you) remember to be appropriate. You can post articles, links, pictures of interest. It doesn’t have to be strictly work as long as its appropriate, all work and no play makes for a dull feed, but remember this is no the place to be promoting your product or service. Just add value to the community, engage with it. That leads us to the next slide
Community EngagementStudy by media marketing company Syncapse found that facebook fans are worth or spent an average of 71.84 more each year on brands those who didn’t “like” pagesBut dollars spent is only one aspect, there’s brand affinity, media value, loyalty, propensity to recommend, and acquisition cost. Overall, fan is worth more than a non fan.mashable.com/2010/06/12/facebook-fan-value/http://adage.com/article/digital/facebook-s-chagrin-time-spent-online-equal-money/235138/Even though people spend more time on facebook than google or youtube, it’s ad revenue is only a fraction of google’s (3.1 billion vs 36 billion)How does all of this help you as a sales advisor? Becoming a facebook guru isn’t necessarily about “immediate” dollars. According to chase and knebl it’s about building your personal brand and adding value to others lives. If they perceive that you are an expert or have some insight, they will think of you when they need something, it’s about being at the front of the line. Facebook FanCreate a fan page for your business (this applies more for self- employed or business owners). If your company doesn’t‘ already have one be sure to contact the appropriate offices and question why there isn’t one. You may be losing out. Fan pages are all about promotion, so don’t be afraid to do so, but keep in mind it shouldn’t be promotion 24/7, this will turn people off. As with everything else, there should be something to engage the users, create discussion. You want to keep visitors coming back over and over. A “like” is not enough.Best practices:http://smokejumperstrategy.com/archive/facebook-fan-page-best-practices/http://mashable.com/2012/05/17/facebook-timeline-brand-tips/http://socialmediaweek.org/chicago/2011/09/22/3-best-practices-for-like-gating-your-facebook-fan-page/
Summary:One of the best things about facebook is the access to analytics. Facebook has literally millions of users and millions of records of information about them. Don’t be afraid to embrace the analytics, be sure to look at and act upon the analytics from your fan pages Facebook Ads let you customize targeted ads for custom demographics.Reference: 1.Mashable: http://mashable.com/2012/05/17/facebook-timeline-brand-tips/
Reminder: if you will be writing as a representative of your company, get approval first. You know a lot about your industry, share it, be a thought leaderWith a blog you are able to not only share but also listen to what others have to say
Type Pad- has $5-100 fee but provides professional designsBlogger- free by googleWord Press- popular, free, many template
Summary:Provide a balance between personal and business content but don’t lose focus.Make your area of focus (and expertise clear), people should be able to tell almost immediately what your area of focus isBe a value generator, people will come back if you offer something they think is usefulUpdate with regular frequency. Again, if you offer consistent value, people will come back (building your following)Keep the readers engaged. Respond to comments or questions, keep the momentum and conversation going even after you’ve postedKeep the design of your blog clean and simpleJust as with linkedin, make sure your bio is descriptive and detailed but make sure you’re not pitching. This is not the time or placeLink to others. Give credit where it’s due. Respectful but also helps build relationships with others that may find your content interesting and recommend to This is not the place to be pitching. Don’t do it!their readers. (Which brings us to…Spread the word!)
Blogger Visibility :Utilize your other pages. Connect them and link themNewsletterLinkedinFacebookTwitterE-mailWhen writing your posts, keep keywords in mind (industry terms etc) don’t force the language. This should naturally happen as long as you are keeping focus when writing. Search engines also index based on keywords they see on pages, this will help boost your ranking (and therefore visibility)Become a Blogging Black BeltUpdate with regular frequency, not only will you keep long time followers coming back but give new comers a nice backlog. Build contentUtilize google analytics to track where your readers are coming fromWrite naturally. Use natural conversational language. Don’t be robotic, let people want to like youUse interviews to build content. Get a camera and see if you can interview fellow industry players and leaders. People love videosComment on others’ blogs. Just like facebook, you need to engage with the community.Share knowledge. Be helpful and open, people do business with those they like.Stay focused.Keep your posts short and titles descriptive, just as with traditional news if the title isn’t eye or attention catching people will be less likely to read. Elevator Pitch! Don’t go on and on. Keep posts to 400-500 words, people don’t have time to read War and Peace
Know your client Past and Present PositionPeople are risk adverse. They rely on recommendations Your role as sales advisor has changed. In the past your value (to others) was limited to the transaction. When a good or service or needed, you provided it and that was the end. Now, you should be a constant resource of value. Providing advice or industry knowledge. You want provide value outside of the transactionPosition yourself. People are constantly in need of information. They will either search for it or go to an already known resource. Either way, you want to position yourself to be that resource. By doing so, you have eliminated the transaction as pre-requisite for contact and reverse your roles. Instead of you going to them, they come to you
Summary:You don’t need to be an expert. you are a redistributor and aggregator of pertinent, useful information. Provide reviews and analysis.Outside of some initial startup, you don’t need much time. Setup a few key resources and you’ll be good to go, saving you time in the futureYou don’t need to know how to write shakespeare. Blogging is about speaking naturally. A casual tone is okay. Your readers will be able to relate to you better!
Summary:Use your other tools, facebook, twitter, linkedin, newsletter. Update your status, send a tweet when you have a new postUse constant contact or iContact for a fee they provide high quality newsletter templatesMake sure you are collecting the email addresses of everyone you meet. Ask for permission to add them your newsletterYou are using this blog as a foundation for an effective, fruitful business relationship. As we have all learned, relationships are key to b2b sales
Summary1. Find 5-6 quality feeds and subscribe- be picky2. Other bloggers3. Industry associations4. Trade publications
Summary: 1. People want to relate to you, so be real.2. If you wouldn’t say it in person, don’t say it online3. You are what you say, be careful and considerate4. Be accurate, make sure you can backup whatever you say. Use links. If you can’t prove something, propose it as an opinion or don’t post it. Remember you want to be a resource. To do so, you must be trustworthy1.Always use spell check2.Don’t use caps. It can connote the wrong emotion. Caps are viewed as aggressive and 3.come across as anger4.You can be funny, but avoid racy humor. Don’t make assumptions about what you think 5.your audience may find humorous. If there’s any doubt, don’t post.6.Just you wouldn’t use it at work or in front of children. Don’t use it on your blog
Summary: The medium may have changed, but the foundations havent changed. You want to initiate contact with written correspondenceFor second degree contacts, try to use a mutual contact. Develop your relationship with the first degree so they’re likely to provide a more sincere recommendation
Analogy: like exercising. You have to keep at it and have patience. Have discipline and fun80/20 rule. 80% are passive majority and 20% are vocal minority (be the 20)
Summary:Split your day into three categories, every 10% is about 4 hoursKeep a weekly schedule (repeat 5 days a week)Learn to say “no”, not everything is urgent. Try not to interrupt your schedule unless it’s a “qualified emergency”
Reference: wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_marketingMsgme Blog : http://blog.msgme.com/2011/09/20/forrester-stats-examining-us-digital-marketing-growth-further-fuel-mobile-now-fire/
you are trying to generate value. instead of pushing your message (pitch) onto people, you will be pulling them in with the value you provide outside of the transaction window.the fundamentals of b2b marketing don't change. social media is just another tool, another medium for communication.the fundamentals of b2b marketing don't change. social media is just another tool, another medium for communication.