If you believe that technology is changing the world faster than ever before in our civilization, you’re not wrong. It is. And it’s not stopping.
If you believe that technology is changing the world faster than ever before in our civilization, you’re not wrong. It is. And it’s not stopping.
Are you being tasked with doing more with less? Increasingly, more sales leaders are. This is the new world that we’re living in.
As an active social selling organization, it’s imperative that you focus on driving your SSI score up. And the reason we say that is because the SSI score is a conglomerate of four key areas that determine whether social application is happening.
It’s a fact, it’s real. And there is no point of ignoring it. Salespeople are allergic to content. The reasons are far and they’re varied and the list is long, but salespeople are not seeing the value of sharing content. After training 80,000 salespeople worldwide, here are some common things that we’ve picked out on why salespeople are not sharing content. But, before we go into that, let’s talk about the value up front.
Seth Godin’s words drip in gold. Actually, that would be an understatement.
If you believe that this is truly the age of the customer, as Forrester says it is, then customers are firmly in the seat of control. Customers are driving a lot of power in transactions today, and it’s all because of information democratization. The Internet, social, and digital technologies are bringing customers out of the woodwork to conduct buying research at record speeds, so they can bypass salespeople and traditional marketing assets more than any other time in history.
The day is already here where our buyers are really different. And if you don’t believe that, then you’re in for a big, big Christmas surprise.
Where were you on December 7, 2016? I believe that’s a question we’ll all ask in the future or one that will be overlooked despite the day’s importance.
Is Facebook moving into the social selling space? And if so, could Facebook be the next LinkedIn killer? Members at Facebook’s development team revealed to Sales for Life executives the company is planning to expand into the professional network space by 2019.
There have been stirrings in the market about changes to the LinkedIn UX (user experience). I’ll be the first to admit these changes are inevitable. Just like with any company, LinkedIn as a product must continue to evolve. I’m more concerned with the lessons LinkedIn’s evolution can teach us. But first, the updates.