New Media
Social Media. The importance of old and new media in sales
Let’s look at what social media is and how it can help the selling process:
- A database of possible contacts
- Information about possible contacts so we know more about them
- A means of contacting possible prospects
- A means of keeping up to date with existing contacts
- A means of publicising and sharing articles/opinions to attract followers in our target market
- Research trends and best practice
- Advertising
In addition, when selling business services to business customers it can be effective to extract potential customers details from social media to a CRM system to email corporate prospects at work (complying with current opt out legislation).
Social media isn’t a instant solution, but it does seriously compliment traditional communications channels like phone, email and post.
Lets look at the current most popular social media platforms.
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In the final sub-section we look at how NLP can help our selling
NLP Sales Section Index
Recommended Sales Books
- NLP Sales Introduction
- Customers’ buying cycle
- Questions to identify your initial problem and value statements
- Getting appointments (framework script)
- Handling classic and specific objections when getting appointments
- Handling other objections when getting appointments
- Advancing the sale
- Closing
- Value, proposals and negotiation
- Implementation, case studies, referrals and testimonials
- New Media
- NLP approaches that make the difference.
