Social Selling

I don't know how many of you REALLY participate in true Social Selling. I think we all use LI to some extent, but real social selling is different in my opinion. This poll indicates I'm in the majority. And outside LI, I don't even know where you'd go to try to Social Sell (in the B2B world that is. B2C is VERY different).


Do you truly Social Sell? And if so, how do you do it? Success rate?


๐Ÿ‘‘ Sales Strategy
๐Ÿ‘ฅ Social Selling
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CuriousFox
WR Officer
6
๐ŸฆŠ
None for me. I'm also strategic and in a different realm like ๐Ÿ‡
Sunbunny31
Politicker
4
Sr Sales Executive ๐Ÿฐ
Who'd've thought bunnies and foxes could be so similar?
RealPatrickBateman
Politicker
3
๐Ÿ”ชAmateur Butcher๐Ÿ”ช
Follow the white rabbit....
CuriousFox
WR Officer
4
๐ŸฆŠ
HEY GURL HEEEEYYYYYY
bandabanda
Tycoon
4
Senior AE Mid Market
@RealPatrickBateman guess whoโ€™s back, back again
RealPatrickBateman
Politicker
2
๐Ÿ”ชAmateur Butcher๐Ÿ”ช
I'm around....
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Diablo
Politicker
3
Sr. AE
I am not but looking to learn more from others
Kosta_Konfucius
Politicker
2
Sales Rep
I would say less than 10% even do true social selling so not surprised its that low, me being one of them.
Sunbunny31
Politicker
2
Sr Sales Executive ๐Ÿฐ
I donโ€™t do much at all, only LI, and sparingly. For me, itโ€™s tactical, so very effective when I do use it. But for me, it also has limited benefit.
Twenty20
1
Account Executive - MM
As much as possible I guess. Just try to put up interesting valuable content and add prospects
nomdeguerre
Executive
1
Account executive
Ok, maybe Iโ€™m stupid, but what exactly do you mean when you say real social selling and truly social sell?
1nbatopshotfan
Politicker
1
Sales
I find that social selling is more about creating legitimacy. If Iโ€™m able to share, post or create subjects that matter to the people I target, when they inevitably look me up, they see that I actually understand what Iโ€™m selling and solving for.
JustGonnaSendIt
Politicker
1
Burn Towns, Get Money
None. I work Ent / Strat accounts and this is essentially useless.

Nobody writes a check for 7 - 8 digits from a LI message.
ThatNewAE
Big Shot
1
Account Executive - Mid enterprise
It worked initially for me, then it absolutely fell flat and failed. It hasn't been working at all ever since pandemic started.
jefe
Arsonist
1
๐Ÿ
People always talk this up and I'm open to learn but never really leveraged it.
TennisandSales
Politicker
0
Head Of Sales
i guess that really depends on how you define social selling. on a scale from 1-10, 10 being all in and nailing it, im probably at a 4 or 6.

how do you define social selling and what do you think most ppl do wrong?
FoodForSales
Politicker
0
AE
I don't use social media for selling at all, but it intrigues me.
Maximas
Tycoon
0
Senior Sales Executive
No use for social media to sell.
SDM
Politicker
0
Sales development manager
My last 6 closure were from LI only
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Does "social selling" sell or suck?

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Does "Social Selling" on LinkedIn work?

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11
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Any tips for social selling?

Question
15
How succesful have you been selling through LinkedIn?
20% Pipegen for days, its awesome
39% Not very succesful
40% Ehhh sometimes it works
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