How to Drive ROI Using Social Media and Social Selling
Our social sales training is delivered in an engaging sales boot camp format course. It can be delivered live as a two-day intensive, as an online sales course or as a hybrid sales training program combining both in-person and online-learning.
Why invest in social sales training for your sales team?
Social media and social networks are becoming vital sources for prospecting, lead generation, client engagement, and service. In fact, according to LinkedIn “78% of social sellers outsell peers who don’t use social media.”
In addition to social media literacy and insights, today’s sales organizations need a bullet-proof sales process and strategy as well. The line between sales and marketing as well as customer and vendor has become blurred. Today’s sales and marketing processes are collaborative and customer-centric.
Your facilitator Shane Gibson was listed as #5 in the Forbes.com list of “The Top 30 Social Sales People in the World”. He provided social selling seminars and consulting strategies for organizations such as Ford, Corning Cable Systems, BMO Financial Group, ACL Systems, Microsoft, Paladin Security, Pivotal, World Trade Centre Vancouver, and hundreds business owners globally.
He has also delivered his sales and social media seminars to over 200,000 people on stages in Canada, the USA, India, Malaysia, Colombia, Dubai, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, South Africa and Zimbabwe. He is the author of Real Results in a Virtual Economy, Guerrilla Social Media Marketing, Sociable! and Closing Bigger the Field Guide to Closing Bigger deals making him unique in the marketplace by having both a strong sales and new media background.
Social Selling Boot Camp Agenda and Course Learning Outcomes:
In this session Shane Gibson will share with you:
Part 1: The New Sales and Marketing Landscape
- The Rules of Engagement in social media for sales professionals
- How your social graph impacts your ability to close deals and generate leads.
- Case studies from leading sales organizations
- The new consumer decision-making model
- Selling and marketing to today’s business decision-maker
- Top social networks for social selling and lead generation
Part 2: Social and Collaborative Selling Tools
- Webinar selling
- Selling via Zoom, Teams and other video call tools
- Online chat best practices
- Using virtual sales agents
- Leading Social CRM Tools
- Video as a selling tool
- Writing emails that work
Part 3: LinkedIn Selling and Recruiting
- How to build a media-rich LinkedIn profile that builds credibility and sells for you
- How to prospect and make connections using LinkedIn
- LinkedIn tips on saving time while keeping your target market
- engaged
- Setting up a professional business page
- Tools and Tips for increasing your contact base
- How to go from a product peddler to thought leader and trusted advisor using LinkedIn updates, groups, one-to-one conversations and personalized connections
- How becoming an expert content curator can build credibility and influence on LinkedIn.
- How to use LinkedIn Premium and LinkedIn Sales Navigator
- Positioning yourself as an expert using LinkedIn Publisher
Part 4: Building an Integrated Sales Process
- Timeless principles in successful selling
- Using targeting to increase sales and social media ROI
- How to become a master prospector and lead generator
- Social search and social media monitoring
- 13 timeless tips to networking online and offline
- “Frequency selling” to increase conversions
- The art of asking questions
- How sales and marketing can work together to win
Part 5: Putting it all together
- What to measure and reward when managing a social sales team or yourself
- New technologies for managing sales and marketing projects
- The key components to writing a social selling plan
- Setting and achieving powerful sales goals
- How to write a social sales plan for to make this year a social selling success
*Participants will leave with a social selling strategy/plan template as well as sample sales management templates and processes as take-home tools.
Who Should Attend:
Large account and key account salespeople, B2B sales executives, Social SDRs, anyone who sells to the 2+ billion people on Facebook or the 800 Million people on LinkedIn. This course is also valuable for business owners, CEOs, COOs, VPs of Sales, sales management, marketing personnel that work with or support sales organizations and anyone serious about building a competitive and current sales organization.
What people say about Shane Gibson’s social selling programs:
“The social media bootcamp was truly worthwhile. Shane is a captivating presenter that was able to tailor the examples and discussion to the individuals and their organizations, allowing each participant to leave with real world tools for understanding, implementing and improving their social media channels. I entered the day feeling a little overwhelmed with how little experience I had working with social media. After breaking down each social media platform in an easy to understand, in-depth presentation, I left feeling confident with the knowledge and tools I gained at the workshop.”
– Brendan Matthews, Manager – Business Operations, Canada Snowboard
“As part of growing our Dealers and growing our brands, we have brought Shane Gibson and his team from “Socialized” in to present and teach “two years in a row;” to address our more than 180 Dealers on social media and social business. Their insights and strategies are always cutting edge and bottom-line focused
–Don Elkington, CEO/President Coast Spas Group (World’s Best Built Spas)
“Shane is a natural CSO…he makes the art of selling using Social Media look very easy and natural. Shane has since spoken to ACL in two other Sales Kick Offs and worked with our Marketing team on social media solutions. Expert, high integrity, creative, personable, and reliable, are also words I would use to describe Shane.”
– Victoria Darnbrough ACL
“Most conversation around the value and benefits of social media has been centered around the Marketing function. Shane Gibson is the foremost expert I know in the area of social media as a supercharger of Sales. A master trainer, speaker and thought leader, Shane helps major companies leverage social tools to drive revenue. I highly recommend engaging him to help socialize your business.”
– Eric Weaver, Senior Vice President – IPG Media Brands – Spring Creek Group
“When it comes to the realm of social media Shane has his fingers on the pulse. Shane is always at the forefront of what is going on as can be clearly seen through his 2 books (Sociable and Guerrilla Social Media Marketing) on the topic. His style is easy to follow and always interesting. If you haven’t read the books yet, I highly recommend them both and if you ever have the opportunity to hear Shane speak on the topic of Social Media I strongly suggest you do so. I will be worth your while”
–Marc McPherson, Senior Manager – Marketing – Go to Market at Yellow Pages Group
“I attended one of Shane’s Sociable seminars. I emerged with a much more thorough understanding of how social media can work effectively within a commercial environment. I was particularly impressed by his ability to make sense out of a high volume of material without making you feel overwhelmed. He also taught in relaxed and personable fashion, which made it seem as if you’re being taught by a friend as opposed to an instructor. I highly recommend Shane for seminars or anything he has to offer.”
– Chris Dugal, Finance Manager at Jim Keay Ford Lincoln