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Can You Really Do Referrals on Social Media?

No More Cold Calling

Social media lead generation can work. Why is asking for referrals on social media a bad idea? 4 Reasons Not to Ask for Referrals on Social Media 1. You want to know this person will be informative, insightful, and leave your contact with information they can use, even if they don’t buy. That’s not cold calling.

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Do the Least Informed Salespeople Have the Loudest Voices

Understanding the Sales Force

Do the least informed among us have the loudest voices? Yet, wherever I travel, whomever I interact with, whatever their story, and regardless of their skin color, religion or national origin, I never see any signs of the friction, division or hate that is amplified by the news media on a daily basis.

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More Information ? Better Informed

The Pipeline

It seems they have discovered social media, Sales 2.0, Second, that there is a whole lot more information available to buyers than ever before; according to these oracles of sales, a customer can access some “20 times more data about you and your competitors than they could 5 years ago”. and felt they had to let the world know.

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Videos on Popular Social Media Sites are Invaluable for B2B Marketers

SalesFuel

According to a report from TREW Marketing and GlobalSpec, your client should be focusing more on popular social media sites. Popular social media sites are also helpful sites that they take advantage of. Popular social media sites are also helpful sites that they take advantage of. Here’s what you need to know.

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Moving From Information Scarcity To Abundance

Partners in Excellence

In the “good old days,” perhaps 10+ years ago, salespeople were the primary source of information about potential solutions for their customers. Customers, also, looked for other sources of information–through networking with others, conferences, trade magazines, research companies, consultants, and others.

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Do You Subscribe to Varying Information?

Smooth Sale

Do You Subscribe to Varying Information? Whether we seek it out or not, information comes in many formats and perspectives. Still, when we are willing to put in a concerted effort to subscribe to varying information, current thoughts, and predictions for the future, we can open up an enormous playing field to select the spot we prefer.

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Information Asymmetry, Turning The Tables

Partners in Excellence

In the old days, when I used to hail a horse drawn carriage to take me to my customers in Wall Street, one of the most important advantages salespeople had was “information.” Not just information about products and services, but what customers were doing, trends and issues that were happening in the industry.