Having a LinkedIn Profile is not an option.
Are you still resisting? Can’t figure out how spending time on LinkedIn will increase your sales? Don’t know exactly what to do to get results?
I can tell you this, you certainly won’t get any leads from LinkedIn if you don’t participate. Having a LinkedIn profile is not an option for business people anymore. You have a business card and a website – right? You wouldn’t try to do business without either of those. Add your LinkedIn profile to that.
Now, if you have more business than you know what to do with, don’t stop reading. LinkedIn becomes a powerful tool for maintaining relationships and that is just as important. Customer retention is critical. Losing them out the back door as fast as you bring them in the front is no way to run a business. One of the great things about LinkedIn is that it is so simple and easy to use that everyone in your company can become a part of customer acquisition and retention.
Valuable Content
Your job on social media is to elevate your status as an expert and keep yourself (your company) in front of people so that when they are ready to buy, they call you. How do you do that? You share. You share valuable information that you read, that your customers and prospects need to read. You share articles you have written with valuable information. There is no end to content on the internet. Think about all of the things you read in a day that might be interesting to your customers. If you aren’t reading anything, start. There are literally thousands of blogs and journals on your industry. Find the good ones, follow them and share.
Start a blog yourself. If you don’t like to write then do a video blog or get guest bloggers or hire a writer to interview you and write the blogs for you. In case you missed it here’s my article on how to blog [Click here].
Still Not Convinced?
Still think it would be a waste of time because your customers and prospects are not on LinkedIn. Before you dismiss it, I challenge you to take your customer and prospect list and enter the names of the people you work with into LinkedIn. If none of them are there or actively using LinkedIn it will be up to you to decide.
Don’t Overlook
If for no other reason, you need to be on LinkedIn because of the powerful SEO – search engine optimization. Don’t believe me, Google yourself right now. If you have a LinkedIn profile, it will be in the top 3 hits on Google. For most it will be the first hit. So if people aren’t looking for you on LinkedIn, how do they find you – the phone book? No, they either ask someone they know for a referral and then Google you or they start with Google. LinkedIn helps you get found.
How Much Time?
Keep this in mind: Spend 15 minutes everyday on LinkedIn. It goes a long way! The more positive interactions you have with customers and prospects the more you build a great relationship with them. If you can keep in touch in a way that adds value, you become more valuable to them. Spend the amount of time that works for you. Start with 15 minutes a day doing the things I suggest and see what happens. I am a sales expert, I wouldn’t spend time on LinkedIn if it didn’t generate some quality leads. I am working on ways to generate even more quality leads from LinkedIn and you can too. It’s not about LinkedIn, it’s about sales. LinkedIn is one of the tools we use, like our smartphone and our business card or a trade show.
Now go get busy finding your customers and prospects on LinkedIn and spend time each day adding value to their lives.
If you need more help:
- Read this article, “10 Ways to Commit to LinkedIn”
Alice is nationally known for her expertise in elevating sales to increase valuation for companies with a B2B complex sale that have exceptional growth potential. She’s originally, from the widely known Miller Heiman Group. Spending her time strategizing with CEOs and their leadership teams to build the strategies that find new business and grow existing accounts is her passion. Her clients love her spirit and the way she energizes their sales organization.
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