Sales Acceleration Summit - This session is now available on demand: http://www.insidesales.com/events/2014/sales-acceleration-summit/koka-sexton
Session Overview
Social selling leverages your professional brand to fill your pipeline with the right people, insights, and relationships.
Increasing your visibility on social networks like LinkedIn will create more opportunities and that all starts with how you engaging people on LinkedIn.
This is NOT a LinkedIn profile makeover, this session will focus on how a person can build their professional brand on LinkedIn by sharing relevant content and being more social with their connections.
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Koka Sexton - How To Use LinkedIn in Social Networking For Business
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2. LinkedIn and Professional Branding
February 2014
Koka Sexton
Sr. Social Marketing Manager
LinkedIn Sales Solutions
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3. Earliest Adopter
Craig Elias
Most Popular
Jill (Brewbaker) Rowley
LinkedIn Icebreaker
Most Connected
Peter Bambridge
Most Endorsed
Pat Licata
4. Leveraging your professional brand to
fill your pipeline with the right people,
insights and relationships.
Social Selling Defined:
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22. Who you know IS more
Important than WHAT
You knowYour network
Is your business.
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23. Proficiency in social media is a
differentiator now, but will
soon be a qualifier.
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24. SALES SOLUTIONS
Establish a professional presence on
LinkedIn with a complete profile
Create a professional brand
Prospect efficiently with powerful
search and research capabilities
Find the right people
Discover and share valuable information to
initiate or maintain a relationship
Engage with insights
Expand your network to reach prospects and
those who can introduce you to prospects
Build strong relationships
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25. SALES SOLUTIONS
Create a professional brand
Performance on four key
dimensions, each worth 25 points
Find the right people
Engage with insights
Build strong relationships
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Social Selling Index 57
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LinkedIn’s Social Selling Index measures adoption
of social selling practices on a 0-100 scale
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26. SALES SOLUTIONS
SSI leaders create
45% more opportunities per quarter
than SSI laggards.
SSI leaders are
51% more likely to hit quota
than SSI laggards.
45%more opportunities
51%more likely to hit quota
Based on a global study LinkedIn ran in Q4 2013 of Q3 performance for reps focused on new business and reps
focused on existing business. Respondents reported performance; they were matched to their LinkedIn profiles to
understand their SSI.SSI leaders have an SSI > 70; SSI laggards have an SSI < 30
Why is social selling important?
27. To succeed, you must be the best
at what you do for a specific
audience.
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