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Social Selling Training for Your Sales Team - Tips for Success

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  1. Social media presence should be maintained by reps. The use of social media by your salespeople is essential to social selling's effectiveness. Imagine this scenario: what kind of customer would trust someone who hasn't posted anything recent or interacted with anyone recently? Leads and followers will remain interested in reps if they interact, post, and engage on social media. Potential customers need highly-valuable content on rep profiles. If a rep has information that's useful to them, customers are more likely to engage with them. In addition, rep profiles should match the social profiles of the larger brand. Additionally, this consistency facilitates a seamless UX, as well as a more trustworthy and professional experience for customers. 2. Teach social selling's three C's. The sales team should be educated about social selling's three C's when they are given sessions on social selling training . These three key elements are essential for social s...

Tailoring Your Content For The Buyer's Journey - A Guide

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It can be difficult to determine what kind of content you should use. Understanding and utilizing the buyer's journey can help you become more successful with if you incorporate it into your content strategy.  An individual goes through a buyer's journey when discovering a problem they have, researching that problem, and ultimately purchasing a product to solve that problem. It consists of three stages: awareness, consideration, and decision.  When you understand the buyer's journey, you can present the right type of content at the right time to potential buyers. An audit of all existing assets is the best way to apply the buyer's journey and start being strategic with your content. Your content assets - whether blog posts, case studies, web pages, videos, eBooks, or whatever else you have - need to be placed where they fit within the buyer's journey and be effective at moving prospects through your digital sales funnel . In this way, you can: Analyze your funnel fo...

Understanding the influence of social media on B2B purchase decisions

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Social media began as a way for individuals to share photos of their loved ones, pets or food, but has now grown into a critical tool for businesses. Organizations have started preparing marketing strategies that embrace the opportunities social media offers. This is all for good reason as social media influences 74% of shoppers' purchasing decisions. As a B2B business that is not utilizing social media, you are missing out on some big opportunities. Here we explore how B2B marketing uses social media to influence buying processes and how you can also take advantage of these opportunities. Optimizing your Profile Pretty much all the available social media platforms allow businesses to create a business profile for their brand. As a B2B business, you must make sure you're not wasting this opportunity that's being offered by social media here. Create a profile and optimize it so it leaves a powerful first impression. Pay attention to what other brands are doing with their pro...