Building Your Sales Team's LinkedIn Skills

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Insider Secrets

for

Building Your Team’s

Kurt ShaverThe Sales Foundry

Sales Skills

Want to reach me?

Forget cold calls.

You have to get

introduced or post

something that

catches my eye.”

“…get introduced…”

Get Referrals

“…or post something that catches my eye.”

Share Content

Isn’t LinkedIn for finding a

job?

The Aberdeen Group

31% Greater team quota attainment with social selling techniques

LinkedIn =Social Media

Marketing handles Social

Media

B2B Lead Sources

Sales

Appointments

Social Influence

Connections, Intros, Posts

Insurance: Grow Network of Referral Partners

• Attorneys

• Bankers

• CPAs

2. Training

Knowledge Discipline

2. Training

• To learn new skills

• To “read the room”

• For your network to respond

Profile Network Listen Engage

Basic: Headshot

Insider: Headline

Profile Network Listen Engage

Basic: 500+

Insider: Buyers

Profile Network Listen Engage

Basic: Search

Insider: Saved Search

Profile Network Listen Engage

Basic: Home Page Updates

Insider: View Recent Activity

Chris hasn’t had an activity over the last two weeks

Walt hasn’t had an activity over the last two weeks

Will hasn’t had an activity over the last two weeks

Susan hasn’t had an activity over the last two weeks

Bill hasn’t had an activity over the last two weeks

Carol hasn’t had an activity over the last two weeks

Zeke hasn’t had an activity over the last two weeks

Kate hasn’t had an activity over the last two weeks

Marketing

Intern/Social

Media Wiz

Socially Savvy

Top Rep

Traditional Sales

Training Company

Miller-Spin-

Centric

Internal Sales Training

Miller-Spin-

Centric

Social Selling Specialist• Years of experience

• Thousands of clients

• Proven results

How are we going to pay for social sales

training?

1. Take from other budgets

2. Self-funded by rep

3. HR career development

funds

4. MDF funds for resellers

5. Roll up assn. or dealers

Management’s Role

What sort of content are you

sharing to attract buyers?

Does anyone here have high-level

connections at your prospect?

How many appointments have you booked using

LinkedIn?

L1: Your Connections

L2: Your Connections’ Connections

L3: Your Connections’

Connections’ Connections

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10,311,800

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# of Connections

+5,994 L1

+1,000,000 L2

+XX,XXX,XXX L3

LinkedIn Connections of Sales Reps

Website Visit

Trade Show

LinkedIn

Twitter

Track social lead sources the same way

as traditional lead sources

Miller-Spin-

Centric

Get a custom

assessment of

your team’s

LinkedIn skills.

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