Download or read book Digital Selling written by Grant Leboff and published by Kogan Page Publishers. This book was released on 2016-09-03 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adapt your sales strategy to embrace the opportunities that digital channels can bring, with this ultimate guide to selling in the digital environment from engaging customers and generating leads to building an online network, with advice from leading sales and marketing expert Grant Leboff. Sales and marketing functions are increasingly converging, with lead generation frequently arising from digital promotional campaigns and opportunities for traditional sales techniques diminishing due to scarce customer attention and availability, not to mention the plethora of readily accessible product information online. Salespeople now need to understand and interact with customers via multiple channels, participating in social media, in collaboration with marketing, to influence purchasing decisions and convert contacts to sales. Digital Selling makes sense of the new paradigms in which a salesperson now operates, outlining the new strategies required to take advantage of the opportunities that exist, and provides the practical advice salespeople need to generate leads and sell more. Packed with great advice for engaging with customers online and via social media, this book explains: -Why embracing the social web is vital -How the sales role changes in a digital environment -The lead generation model in a digital world -How to build your online network This straightforward and practical book from one of today's thought leaders on digital sales and marketing, is essential reading for any sales professional.

Download or read book Social Selling written by Timothy Hughes and published by Kogan Page Publishers. This book was released on 2016-07-03 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adopt a clear strategy for social selling, including how to build authority online, gain influence in target communities and engage with decision-makers and changemakers to 'hack' the buying process, with the bestselling book from industry thought-leader Tim Hughes. As the digital landscape continues to change buying habits at both B2B and B2C level, it has become increasingly difficult to reach customers early enough in their decision-making process through traditional sales methods. Developing relationships with decision-makers through social networks has become an increasingly critical skill - enabling sales professionals to engage early on and 'hack' the buying process. Social Selling provides a practical, step-by-step blueprint for harnessing these specific and proven techniques including: -How to use networks purposefully to build social trust and create a high-quality community -How to develop real influence and authority in your subject area and connect with change-makers -How to scale the social selling strategy across an organization including maturity and investment models, risk and governance, and technology platforms Written by Tim Hughes, a thought-leader and renowned practitioner in social selling, and Matt Reynolds, one of the UK's leading technology sociologists, this book is essential reading for sales professionals, digital sales directors and SMEs who want to embrace the power of social selling in their organization.

Download or read book Social Media for Direct Selling Representatives written by Karen Clark and published by . This book was released on 2015-12-23 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the resource you've been waiting for. Tailored specifically to those in "party plan" direct selling businesses, Social Media for Direct Selling Representatives is the first volume in a series of books to help you accelerate your business using social media marketing as a vibrant part of your overall marketing plan. Based on 18 years' experience in the field and working with companies, this book was written by someone with the technical expertise to know what works, and the industry knowledge to explain it in a way that makes sense.

Download or read book Social Selling Mastery written by Jamie Shanks and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-08-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A concrete framework for engaging today's buyer and building relationships Social Selling Mastery provides a key resource for sales and marketing professionals seeking a better way to connect with today's customer. Author Jamie Shanks has personally built Social Selling solutions in nearly every industry, and in this book, he shows you how to capture the mindshare of business leadership and turn relationships into sales. The key is to reach the buyer where they're conducting due diligence—online. The challenge is then to strike the right balance, and be seen as a helpful resource that can guide the buyer toward their ideal solution. This book presents a concrete Social Selling curriculum that teaches you everything you need to know in order to leverage the new business environment into top sales figures. Beginning with the big picture and gradually honing the focus, you'll learn the techniques that will change your entire approach to the buyer. Social Selling is not social media marketing. It's a different approach, more one-to-one rather than one-to-many. It's these personal relationships that build revenue, and this book helps you master the methods today's business demands. Reach and engage customers online Provide value and insight into the buying process Learn more effective Social Selling tactics Develop the relationships that lead to sales Today's buyers are engaging sales professionals much later in the buying process, but 74 percent of deals go to the sales professional who was first to engage the buyer and provide helpful insight. The sales community has realized the need for change—top performers have already leveraged Social Selling as a means of engagement, but many more are stuck doing "random acts of social," unsure of how to proceed. Social Selling Mastery provides a bridge across the skills gap, with essential guidance on selling to the modern buyer.

Download or read book The Art of Social Selling written by and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The B2B Social Media Book written by Kipp Bodnar and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-12-20 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advance your B2B marketing plans with proven social media strategies Learn social media's specific application to B2B companies and how it can be leveraged to drive leads and revenue. B2B marketers are undervalued and under appreciated in many companies. Social media and online marketing provide the right mix of rich data and reduction in marketing expenses to help transform a marketer into a superstar. The B2B Social Media Book provides B2B marketers with actionable advice on leveraging blogging, LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and more, combined with key strategic imperatives that serve as the backbone of effective B2B social media strategies. This book serves as the definitive reference for B2B marketers looking to master social media and take their career to the next level. Describes a methodology for generating leads using social media Details how to create content offers that increase conversion rates and drive leads from social media Offers practical advice for incorporating mobile strategies into the marketing mix Provides a step-by-step process for measuring the return on investment of B2B social media strategies The B2B Social Media Book will help readers establish a strong social media marketing strategy to generate more leads, become a marketing superstar in the eye of company leaders, and most importantly, contribute to business growth.

Download or read book Maximize Your Social written by Neal Schaffer and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-09-06 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Create and maintain a successful social media strategy for your business Today, a large number of companies still don't have a strategic approach to social media. Others fail to calculate how effective they are at social media, one of the critical components of implementing any social media strategy. When companies start spending time and money on their social media efforts, they need to create an internal plan that everyone can understand. Maximize Your Social offers a clear vision of what businesses need to do to create—and execute upon—their social media for business road map. Explains the evolution of social media and the absolute necessity for creating a social media strategy Outlines preparation for, mechanics of, and maintenance of a successful social media strategy Author Neal Schaffer was named a Forbes Top 30 Social Media Power Influencer, is the creator of the AdAge Top 100 Global Marketing Blog, Windmill Networking, and a global social media speaker Maximize Your Social will guide you to mastery of social media marketing strategies, saving you from spending a chunk of your budget on a social media consultant. Follow Neal Schaffer's advice, and you'll be able to do it yourself—and do it right.

Download or read book The Social Media Marketing Book written by Dan Zarrella and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2009-11-13 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you looking to take advantage of social media for your business or organization? With easy-to-understand introductions to blogging, forums, opinion and review sites, and social networks such as Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn, this book will help you choose the best -- and avoid the worst -- of the social web's unique marketing opportunities. The Social Media Marketing Book guides you through the maze of communities, platforms, and social media tools so you can decide which ones to use, and how to use them most effectively. With an objective approach and clear, straightforward language, Dan Zarrella, aka "The Social Media & Marketing Scientist," shows you how to plan and implement campaigns intelligently, and then measure results and track return on investment. Whether you're a seasoned pro or new to the social web, this book will take you beyond the jargon to social media marketing mastery. Make sense of this complicated environment with the help of screenshots, graphs, and visual explanations Understand the history and culture of each social media type, including features, functionality, and protocols Get clear-cut explanations of the methods you need to trigger viral marketing successes Choose the technologies and marketing tactics most relevant to your campaign goals Learn how to set specific goals for your campaigns and evaluate them according to key performance indicators Praise for The Social Media Marketing Book: "Let Zarrella take you to social-media marketing school. You'll learn more from reading this book than a month of research on the Internet."--Guy Kawasaki, co-founder of Alltop.com "If I could be any other person for a day, it would be Dan Zarella. Either him or Brad Pitt. But Dan's smarter. This book is why I say that."--Chris Brogan, President of New Marketing Labs "This book demonstrates a beginning to the endless possibilities of the Social Web."-- Brian Solis, publisher of leading marketing blog PR 2.0

Download or read book Social Media Marketing written by Tracy L. Tuten and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2020-11-18 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **Winner of the TAA 2017 Textbook Excellence Award** "Social Media Marketing deserves special kudos for its courage in tackling the new frontier of social media marketing. This textbook challenges its readers to grapple with the daunting task of understanding rapidly evolving social media and its users." TAA Judges Panel The market leading and award winning text on social media marketing has been fully updated for this fourth edition. With a balance of essential theory and practical application, the text has been been thoroughly revised to reflect the latest developments in social media marketing research and practice. 11 new case studies have been added to the ′Case Zone′, including TikTok, LEGO, Nespresso and Puma. A student-engaging case study now runs throughout the entire textbook looking at the US based company Kombucha 221 BC to help develop understanding of each chapter. The book is complemented by a companion website that offers valuable additional resources for both instructors and students, including author videos discussing key social media marketing ideas and concepts, author-selected YouTube video playlists, additional case studies, further weblinks, PowerPoint slides and Testbank. A must-have text for those studying social media marketing.

Download or read book No Bullshit Social Media written by Jason Falls and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2012 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The In-Your-Face, Results-Focused, No-"Kumbaya" Guide to Social Media for Business! Detailed techniques for increasing sales, profits, market share, and efficiency. Specific solutions for brand-building, customer service, R & D, and reputation management. Facts, statistics, real-world case studies, and rock-solid metrics

Download or read book Social Media for Writers written by Tee Morris and published by Imagine That! Studios. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All new second edition, featuring chapters on streaming media, and crisis management. Maximize the Potential of Your Online Brand! Social media has transformed into a necessity for writers. This second edition offers something for both authors new to the social space, and experienced ones looking for fresh approaches to platforms old and new. The variety of social media options alone is dizzying: WordPress, Tumblr, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Pinterest, and more. Social Media for Writers, second edition will equip you with the essential tools you'll need to succeed. In this book you'll learn how to: • Create an online brand: write content for several different networks, and tie them together to develop an authoritative, trusted voice • Utilize "best practices": learn the ins-and-outs of the online community and how to maximize the potential of each platform • Build a community: make connections and create a fan base to endorse your work • Refine your voice, and online persona through platforms like podcasting and streaming media With all of these strategies, techniques, and applicable information, Social Media for Writers is a comprehensive source for all your social media needs!

Download or read book Media Selling written by Charles Warner and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The must-have resource for media selling in today’s technology-driven environment The revised and updated fifth edition of Media Selling is an essential guide to our technology-driven, programmatic, micro-targeted, mobile, multi-channel media ecosystem. Today, digital advertising has surpassed television as the number-one ad investment platform, and Google and Facebook dominate the digital advertising marketplace. The authors highlight the new sales processes and approaches that will give media salespeople a leg up on the competition in our post-Internet media era. The book explores the automated programmatic buying and selling of digital ad inventory that is disrupting both media buyers and media salespeople. In addition to information on disruptive technologies in media sales, the book explores sales ethics, communication theory and listening, emotional intelligence, creating value, the principles of persuasion, sales stage management guides, and sample in-person, phone, and email sales scripts. Media Selling offers media sellers a customer-first and problem-solving sales approach. The updated fifth edition: Contains insight from digital experts into how 82.5% of digital ad inventory is bought and sold programmatically Reveals how to conduct research on Google Analytics Identifies how media salespeople can offer cross-platform and multi-channel solutions to prospects’ advertising and marketing challenge Includes insights into selling and distribution of podcasts Includes links to downloadable case studies, presentations, and planners on the Media Selling website Includes an extensive Glossary of Digital Advertising terms Written for students in communications, radio-TV, and mass communication, Media Selling is the classic work in the field. The updated edition provides an indispensable tool for learning, training, and mastering sales techniques for digital media.

Download or read book Social Upheaval written by John Golden and published by . This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Golden, best selling author of "Winning the Battle for Sales" presents "Social Upheaval: How to Win At Social Selling" to explain how every B2B salesperson can add social selling methods to their toolkits, and why it is so important that they do so without delay. Using social media to sell is all about communicating value quickly and concisely. Any book on the subject should do the same, and "Social Upheaval: How to Win at Social Selling" does exactly that. A short, easy-to-read treatise that delivers practical advice and tactics to successfully leverage this new frontier of selling, Social Upheaval is provocative, entertaining and above all immediately useful.

Download or read book The Social Selling Journal written by Marki Lemons Ryhal and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-29 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the Social Selling Journal? The Social Selling Journal is all about being social every day, both online and offline, to stay number one in your customer's mind. How does the Social Selling Journal work? The Social Selling Journal is 66 days of social accountability. It takes exactly 66 days for a new behavior to become a habit. Step-by-step, the Social Selling Journal will guide you toward creating and sustaining new social behaviors in your life.

Download or read book Maximizing LinkedIn for Sales and Social Media Marketing an Unofficial Practical Guide to Selling and Developing B2B Business on LinkedIn written by Neal Schaffer and published by Neal Schaffer. This book was released on 2011-08-07 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neal Schaffer helped revolutionize the way professionals utilize LinkedIn with his award-winning book Windmill Networking: Understanding, Leveraging & Maximizing LinkedIn. He now does the same to enlighten companies how to develop business on LinkedIn with Maximizing LinkedIn for Sales and Social Media Marketing. Thought Linkedin was just for job seekers? Think again. Linkedin is the most important destination for your sales and social media marketing efforts if your company is selling products and services to other businesses. When looking at Linkedin's extensive functionality from a sales and marketing perspective as presented in this book, you'll soon understand how you can create new business from your Linkedin activities. After reading this book you'll learn how to master the Linkedin platform to develop business, including how to create a sales-oriented profile and connections policy to attract more leads, become an industry thought leader by establishing your own community within the lucrative Linkedin demographic, set up your Linkedin Companies Page to improve your reputation--and drive more traffic to your website, and optimize your Linkedin presence as part of your social media optimization efforts. This practical guide, supplemented by more than 15 case studies, will teach you and your employees everything you need to know on how to successfully develop leads and business on LinkedIn.

Download or read book The Art of Social Selling written by Shannon Belew and published by AMACOM. This book was released on 2014-01-13 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a detailed methodology for growing sales and expanding their customer base via Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, and other social media platforms. Internet marketing strategies have evolved well past the days of purchasing banner space on popular websites and hoping the right customers stumble upon it during their late-night searches. With the explosion of social media platforms, businesses can now tap into specific online communities and be confident that they are communicating directly and regularly with their target audience. Citing enlightening research and real-world examples, The Art of Social Selling will show you how to: Use content and conversations to build online relationships that transition to sales Execute realistic sales strategies for each of the major social media platforms Spot social media trends that may influence future buying behaviors Sell online in B2B and B2C environments Turn social shares (likes, favorites, +1s) into social sales Set tangible goals Use online tools and analytics to track social influencers and identify relevant conversations as they are happening Complete with a chapter dedicated to capturing mobile sales--a segment currently exploding as the adoption of smartphones and tablets continues to grow--this invaluable guide is a must-have resource for sales professionals in every industry.

Download or read book Direct Selling written by Sara L. Cochran and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Power of Direct Selling. Direct selling is not an industry per se nor is it merely a go-to-market business model and channel to reach consumers. It is bigger than any of this - direct selling is people. The ability for people with entrepreneurial spirit to build a successful business, whether it be from the ground up or by representing a company's product, is at the heart of direct selling and it is people who made (and continue to make) direct selling the successful marketplace that it is today. The direct selling marketplace is comprised of mission-driven and socially responsible companies offering a wide variety of product and services, and the list of direct selling companies is abundant with entrepreneurs who built their businesses by utilizing an independent salesforce channel to market and sell their products or services directly to consumers. Possibly one of the most prominent of these entrepreneurs is Mary Kay Ash, a legend as a glass-ceiling breaker and a woman who built a very successful business with a go-to-market strategy of direct selling. Unlike Mary Kay Ash, however, not all aspiring business owners are willing/able to invest their savings and time on a start-up business. These micro-entrepreneurs desire to have the economic and social benefits of managing their own businesses but do not want the startup costs and demands associated with traditional business planning. As such, becoming a direct selling distributor offers a low-risk, low-cost pathway to micro-entrepreneurship. The traditional barriers to small business ownership are removed when a micro-entrepreneur builds a direct selling business that is backed by established brands. These established brands, several of which are featured in this book, offer the micro-entrepreneurs quality products, business training, and technological resources to achieve a self-determined metric of success. Framed within the context of entrepreneurship and an historical overview of the long-term sustainability of this business model, this book is intended for practitioners who want to read about the breadth and depth of direct selling. Importantly, this book provides considerable depth in terms of three particular issues associated with direct selling: Compensation, Ethics & compliance, and Global reach. For scholars, this book is built on a strong foundation of valid and reliable research endeavors. The authors have published research on direct selling in high quality, reputable and peer-reviewed academic and practitioner journals. Thus, this book can add foundationally to the research efforts of academics who are conducting research in a wide variety of topics (such as sales, women empowerment, business strategy, ethics, distribution models, gig economy, and global entry - to name a few), as well as to members of the press who want reliable and valid content upon which to build their stories. The book's content is also particularly informative for policymakers at the local, state, national, and international levels. For students, reading this book will offer a variety of insights, particularly related to the intricacies of channel selection and design. Direct Selling: A Global and Social Business Model is a collective project from eight academics and practitioners who have dedicated much of their careers to understanding direct selling as both a go-to-market strategy and a channel of distribution and to capturing the people who are the foundation of direct selling. The pages of this book bring together a wealth of research and knowledge that can inform a broad spectrum of constituents about the economic and social benefits of direct selling, while also providing detail and clarity on key issues related to direct selling as a sustainable business model.