Shane Gibson's Podcast – Social Selling – B2B Sales and Influence

Should you let your sales team publish content using social media?

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Today’s podcast answers the question “Should you let your sales team publish content using social media?” I cover 5 reasons sales professionals should not be publishing content on social media and 13 reasons they should be. Here’s a brief summary of what is covered:

5 reasons why you should not let your sales team publish content using social media:
  1. You have hired idiots – even if you trained them they would just be motivated idiots.
  2. You have so much profitable business that you couldn’t handle any more
  3. Your product really sucks
  4. Your company and culture really suck
  5. You haven’t or will not equip them with
    6. – The rules of engagement and a social media policy
    – Training in the tools of engagement
    – Accountability in place – once engaged it’s game on – have a framework support and accountability.
    10 reasons why you should let your sales team publish content using social media:
    1. “It’s not marketing it’s talking to customers” – Scott Stratten of UnMarketing
    2. It adds to value added frequency
    3. It opens up new channels
    4. It can save time
    5. Load balance your branding
    6. Social CRM is the next big thing – are you cruising or are you road kill (Social CRM Podcast)
    7. Immediate data instead of compiled and stale data
    8. It makes them almost as smart as your customer
    9. You can see the activity
    10. It builds a passive pipeline and makes projections easier “If you’re talking to unqualified prospects it’s not a sales problem, it’s a marketing problem” – Zero Rejection Prospecting (Michael J Durkin and Norbert Orlewicz)
    11. It builds a fence around the customer
    12. It creates joy
    13. It elevates sales people above pitch artist to trusted advisor

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