Social Selling Mastery

A concrete framework for engaging today's buyer and building relationships Social Selling Mastery provides a key resource for sales and marketing professionals seeking a better way to connect with today's customer. Author Jamie Shanks has personally built Social Selling solutions in nearly every industry, and in this book, he shows you how to capture the mindshare of business leadership and turn relationships into sales. The key is to reach the buyer where they're conducting due diligence—online. The challenge is then to strike the right balance, and be seen as a helpful resource that can guide the buyer toward their ideal solution. This book presents a concrete Social Selling curriculum that teaches you everything you need to know in order to leverage the new business environment into top sales figures. Beginning with the big picture and gradually honing the focus, you'll learn the techniques that will change your entire approach to the buyer. Social Selling is not social media marketing. It's a different approach, more one-to-one rather than one-to-many. It's these personal relationships that build revenue, and this book helps you master the methods today's business demands. Reach and engage customers online Provide value and insight into the buying process Learn more effective Social Selling tactics Develop the relationships that lead to sales Today's buyers are engaging sales professionals much later in the buying process, but 74 percent of deals go to the sales professional who was first to engage the buyer and provide helpful insight. The sales community has realized the need for change—top performers have already leveraged Social Selling as a means of engagement, but many more are stuck doing "random acts of social," unsure of how to proceed. Social Selling Mastery provides a bridge across the skills gap, with essential guidance on selling to the modern buyer.

Adopt a clear strategy for social selling, including how to build authority online, gain influence in target communities and engage with decision-makers and changemakers to 'hack' the buying process, with the bestselling book from industry thought-leader Tim Hughes. As the digital landscape continues to change buying habits at both B2B and B2C level, it has become increasingly difficult to reach customers early enough in their decision-making process through traditional sales methods. Developing relationships with decision-makers through social networks has become an increasingly critical skill - enabling sales professionals to engage early on and 'hack' the buying process. Social Selling provides a practical, step-by-step blueprint for harnessing these specific and proven techniques including: -How to use networks purposefully to build social trust and create a high-quality community -How to develop real influence and authority in your subject area and connect with change-makers -How to scale the social selling strategy across an organization including maturity and investment models, risk and governance, and technology platforms Written by Tim Hughes, a thought-leader and renowned practitioner in social selling, and Matt Reynolds, one of the UK's leading technology sociologists, this book is essential reading for sales professionals, digital sales directors and SMEs who want to embrace the power of social selling in their organization.

From the three-time #1 bestselling author Chris J. Reed, “the only CEO with a Mohawk!” comes his latest book, Social Selling Mastery for Entrepreneurs. Whether you have heard the phrase “social selling” but don’t know what it entails, or you have been trying to socially sell for years, this book will give you worthwhile insights, actionable advice, and secrets of the trade that Chris has learned in his ongoing career as a global social selling guru. You see, Chris himself used social selling to create Black Marketing, the world’s most recommended LinkedIn marketing agency, and Chris continues to rely on social selling for his business to thrive. Chris is the world’s most recommended LinkedIn marketing masterclass instructor, entrepreneur and founder with 650 LinkedIn recommendations, triple LinkedIn marketing bestselling author, and the only entrepreneur or LinkedIn speaker on the site who is an Official LinkedIn Power Profile seven years running. CEOs, entrepreneurs, and business leaders seek Chris out to gain support with their personal branding, social media presence, employer branding and social selling. In sharing his lessons learned and social selling dos and don'ts, Social Selling Mastery for Entrepreneurs offers an invaluable learning opportunity not to be passed up! In Social Selling Mastery for Entrepreneurs, Chris explains how you, as a business owner and entrepreneur, a CEO, a CMO, or a sales or marketing professional can master social selling. Chris also lays out how LinkedIn, the only business-focused global social media platform, offers an ideal platform for social selling. With LinkedIn's range of tools at your disposal for building your brand, releasing content, and connecting you with its 600 million-plus business professional users, Chris teaches you how to harness all LinkedIn offers so that you can build your own social selling machine and keep it going at high speed for years to come. In Social Selling Mastery for Entrepreneurs, you'll get a highly developed rendering of social selling, complete with anecdotes from Chris's career so that readers who aren’t familiar with the concept can get on board fast. He then highlights the roles of social research, personal branding, and content marketing, showing how they work interdependently in social selling. Additionally, Chris presents various content marketing strategies, as well as the nuances of content marketing you must consider to get the engagement you are aiming for. He presents a convincing case to get you writing and videoing yourself and putting that content out there because it’s the people who show themselves to be thought leaders and experts that enjoy the greatest success in social selling.

The ultimate Account-based Sales guide for the modern, digital seller. SPEAR Selling is the battle-tested process for both sales leaders and sales professionals to leverage in their pursuit for greater account-based sales results. Author Jamie Shanks has trained and advised 100's of companies on SPEAR Selling to increase sales pipeline in all types of sales functions (inside sales, field sales, customer success, channel sales). The key to account-based sales results is the focus on upfront planning that leverage key competitive differentiators, used to significantly improve account activation and opportunity creation. Combine this focus on account planning, with a relentless accountability to structured sales activity, and this account-based motion will: -Increase the volume of opportunities in a territory -Shorten the timeline to opportunity creation in key accounts -Increase the conversion of prospective accounts into customers -Select the right accounts -Plan & Storyboard the engagement strategy -Engage with a structured process -Activate & educate with a Bold & Different strategy than the competition -Run or Replace (build sales pipeline with an objective framework). If you or your sales organization is running an account-centric sales motion, and you're not leveraging social proximity as a key competitive differentiator in your account selection process - you've already lost your competitive advantage. Let this book be your guide to being first, bold and different in your service of the modern, digital buyer.

From the three-time #1 bestselling author Chris J. Reed, "the only CEO with a Mohawk!" comes his latest book, Social Selling Mastery for Entrepreneurs. Whether you have heard the phrase "social selling" but don't know what it entails, or you have been trying to socially sell for years, this book will give you worthwhile insights, actionable advice, and secrets of the trade that Chris has learned in his ongoing career as a global social selling guru. You see, Chris himself used social selling to create Black Marketing, the world's most recommended LinkedIn marketing agency, and Chris continues to rely on social selling for his business to thrive. Chris is the world's most recommended LinkedIn marketing masterclass instructor, entrepreneur and founder with 650 LinkedIn recommendations, triple LinkedIn marketing bestselling author, and the only entrepreneur or LinkedIn speaker on the site who is an Official LinkedIn Power Profile seven years running. CEOs, entrepreneurs, and business leaders seek Chris out to gain support with their personal branding, social media presence, employer branding and social selling. In sharing his lessons learned and social selling dos and don'ts, Social Selling Mastery for Entrepreneurs offers an invaluable learning opportunity not to be passed up! In Social Selling Mastery for Entrepreneurs, Chris explains how you, as a business owner and entrepreneur, a CEO, a CMO, or a sales or marketing professional can master social selling. Chris also lays out how LinkedIn, the only business-focused global social media platform, offers an ideal platform for social selling. With LinkedIn's range of tools at your disposal for building your brand, releasing content, and connecting you with its 600 million-plus business professional users, Chris teaches you how to harness all LinkedIn offers so that you can build your own social selling machine and keep it going at high speed for years to come. In Social Selling Mastery for Entrepreneurs, you'll get a highly developed rendering of social selling, complete with anecdotes from Chris's career so that readers who aren't familiar with the concept can get on board fast. He then highlights the roles of social research, personal branding, and content marketing, showing how they work interdependently in social selling. Additionally, Chris presents various content marketing strategies, as well as the nuances of content marketing you must consider to get the engagement you are aiming for. He presents a convincing case to get you writing and videoing yourself and putting that content out there because it's the people who show themselves to be thought leaders and experts that enjoy the greatest success in social selling.

There's only one place in the world where you can find and connect with hundreds of millions of professionals every day, and that's on LinkedIn. Are you taking advantage of it? Or are you who Gary Vaynerchuk is talking about when he says, "So many . . . are missing out on the insane opportunity on LinkedIn right now."Tragically, too many of the almost 800 million people on LinkedIn are missing out because they use it the wrong way, but that spells opportunity for those who use it correctly. The good news is, with this book as your guide, you'll be an expert LinkedIn user in no time.Whether you're an employee who dreams of finding a new job, an executive who needs to hire star talent, or an entrepreneur who wants to grow a business, LinkedIn Mastery is the super-simple, straightforward, practical blueprint that will help you achieve your goals.This step-by-step guide to mastering LinkedIn will teach you how to:Optimize your LinkedIn profile so it's something you're proud to show off, rather than something you want to hideMake high-quality connections on LinkedIn with your ideal audience-the people you can serve and who can serve youCreate compelling content-quickly, easily, and affordably-that will bring your dream opportunities to youThis book contains 60 LinkedIn lessons, each short enough to understand and implement in 15 minutes or less. If you complete one each day, within 60 days you'll fully master LinkedIn. If you're looking to find a new job, your LinkedIn profile will attract the best employers and the best offers. If you're recruiting, you'll find and connect with top talent. And if you're generating leads and growing your business, you'll create content that brings your ideal customer to you.Are you ready for your first lesson?

Create and maintain a successful social media strategy for your business Today, a large number of companies still don't have a strategic approach to social media. Others fail to calculate how effective they are at social media, one of the critical components of implementing any social media strategy. When companies start spending time and money on their social media efforts, they need to create an internal plan that everyone can understand. Maximize Your Social offers a clear vision of what businesses need to do to create—and execute upon—their social media for business road map. Explains the evolution of social media and the absolute necessity for creating a social media strategy Outlines preparation for, mechanics of, and maintenance of a successful social media strategy Author Neal Schaffer was named a Forbes Top 30 Social Media Power Influencer, is the creator of the AdAge Top 100 Global Marketing Blog, Windmill Networking, and a global social media speaker Maximize Your Social will guide you to mastery of social media marketing strategies, saving you from spending a chunk of your budget on a social media consultant. Follow Neal Schaffer's advice, and you'll be able to do it yourself—and do it right.

You're the expert in your industry. Your clients and prospect have a need they must fill but don't know it's your product they NEED and WANT. Only you do, and only you can sell it to them.This book is about more than just Social Selling using LinkedIn(tm). It is about building a specific, relevant marketing skill-set for the digital age of business. More importantly, it is about building a community of clients that will serve you and your business for years to come, generating leads from that community, and making profitable sales. Within the pages of this book, you will acquire the necessary knowledge and skills on your path to Social Selling mastery. Some of them include:*The 5Cs that form the pillars of social selling success.*How to position and present yourself as the expert the right way: Even if you're a beginner, chances are you know more than some of your clients or can learn a lot about your industry and clients' problems and solutions. Either way, you will have to position yourself correctly to influence a sale.*The LinkedIn features you will need for successful social selling and how to use them.*How to build a network of clients that will serve you well irrespective of what your goals are.*What your strategy for social selling success should include and how to craft one.*The content strategy that works (includes successful researching, creating content, publishing, and engaging your audience).*A system of selling that does better than paid-advertising and why. This system will help you save money or channel it better for more results.*This book contains the most critical tools you need on your path to sales success in the digital world. The best part is that it is a simple easy-to-read guide.