How to Sell on LinkedIn: Across All Channels
Why
Reaching your customer where they want to be reached when they are ready to buy is critical to increasing sales. Social selling is a great way to do this.
How
LinkedIn is the greatest selling and prospecting tool we have ever seen. However, this doesn’t mean you replace all your offline and online strategies that have worked in the past. Specifically:
Social selling doesn’t replace your coffees, meetings, lunches, and golf outings. Refer to Tip #16 in my book How To Sell on LinkedIn. LinkedIn is primarily designed to help start and deepen relationships when time and distance are an issue.
Use your EQ (emotional intelligence) to determine when and where each individual customer wants to be reached both offline and online— keeping in mind that everyone differs. If a client loves ballet, taking them to a football game doesn’t make much sense. So use Facebook, email, direct mail, birthday cards, and such to properly cross-sell and augment your LinkedIn social selling activity.
There is exponential power in meeting people for lunches, as well as having your message appear in your prospect’s mailbox, inbox, and social feed.
Check out more LinkedIn social selling tips in my new book: How to Sell on LinkedIn.
