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Sales and Lead Generation

A collection of 17 issues

From Awareness to Action: Mastering Audience Nurturing

Your prospects are bombarded with countless messages and offers every day. Yet, despite this constant stream of information, most of them aren’t ready to buy from you right away. It’s not that they don’t need what you’re offering—it’s that they aren’t in the

The Best Salespeople are Teachers

The landscape of sales is shifting. Traditional methods, once reliant on persuasion and charisma, are facing growing skepticism and dwindling trust. According to Hubspot Research, only a mere 3% of people trust salespeople (better than 1% of politicians!). This erosion of trust, coupled with the limitations of one-to-one interactions, has

3 LinkedIn Direct Message Strategies

I recently talked with a friend who was looking for strategies to leverage LinkedIn direct messages. He had been having success with some thought leadership content and was getting connection requests from people in his target audience. Great! But… How do you reach out now? Do you send them a

First-Time Publisher? How to Start Your Newsletter

I want to share with you one of the most underrated strategies for your digital growth. And that’s… email newsletters. I know what you’re thinking, “James, nobody wants to sign up for more emails.” But hear me out. Email newsletters have consistently been one of the most effective

How To Get Lurkers To Stop Lurking

It's a common experience for me to hear, “I love your content on LinkedIn,” or “You're always popping up in my feed,” from people who, surprisingly, never engage with my posts. These individuals, known as lurkers, watch from the shadows, unseen and unheard! This phenomenon poses

Connecting for Success: LinkedIn's Networking Magic

In the world of social networking, your connections are a fundamental part of your social selling strategy. Your connections are vital in how you interact with LinkedIn, including what shows up on your newsfeed, who you can engage with, and your ability to reach your desired audience. Without connections, you

Get Started with Lead Magnets: A Social Seller's Guide

Leads are the lifeblood of any sales organization. But how do you entice social media followers or website visitors to share their valuable contact information with you willingly? The answer lies in the art of lead magnets. In this week’s Sell with Social, we'll explore what lead

Genuine Connections, Lasting Results: Your Guide to Non-Salesy Social Selling

Social media has become a powerful tool for sales professionals to connect with potential clients, build relationships, and drive business growth. However, the line between effective social selling and coming across as too salesy or spammy can be thin. One of the biggest fears I hear from reps is -

The Social Selling Hierarchy: Your Blueprint to Social Selling

As your customers increasingly turn to social media platforms to interact and make purchasing decisions, social selling activities are becoming an essential part of a modern sales strategy. Social selling, or the practice of leveraging social media to connect with prospects, build relationships, and ultimately drive sales, has emerged as

Maximize Your Reach: The Dos and Don'ts of LinkedIn Post Optimization

Ahh, the algorithms. They giveth, and they taketh away. The ability for you to execute a social selling strategy is often dependent on your ability to successfully navigate social media algorithms. Which, quite frankly, can be quite challenging to do. They are all continually changing to try and strike a