How does social media gain clients?
The world has changed. Traditional strategies and tactics that have worked in the past to acquire prospects, leads and sales are becoming less and less effective. The good news is that there is a new way to be successful in this new digital age: social selling.
Social selling is using social media to find key decision makers, and build long-term relationships. It's about moving past being a sales representative, and becoming a trusted business partner, creating a "win-win" situation for both parties.
Plus, response and conversion rates are much higher than cold calling and blast emails.
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Cold calling
The average cold calling response rate is 3%
EMAIL
The average email response rate is 4%
social selling
We get up to an 86% response rate using social selling
HOW WE CAN HELP
3 ways we help you reach your company goals
Strategy
We review your marketing, social media, and sales efforts, and show you ways to boost your business. Then, we create effective go-to-market strategies that create demand with your target audience, and use best practices to continuously add value.
Sales enablement
We coach and train your team you find your ideal target audience, connect with them, start a relationship with them, get meetings, and convert into sales using modern sales strategies and social selling.
To see how we can help you at every step in the sales journey click here.
Content
We write and design content that is powerful, useful, relevant and energizing to YOUR target audience, and, as a result, increases engagement, creates demand, generates leads and drives sales.
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