Post by carol2 on Mar 30, 2024 7:19:53 GMT -5
Death of a B2B salesman Sales is extremely difficult, it requires energy and proactivity. Yet, learning how to let go is even more important. Being a good salesperson implies avoiding Joes Isuzu’s hard selling methods at all cost. Recently, The Joe Isuzus of this world decided to swamp social media platforms — namely LinkedIn — with their so-called social selling approaches. This is not doing anything to improve the perception and image of sales persons. Here are few examples of social media hassles: A sales person, or even worse, “business developer”, who contacts you immediately after you have accepted her/his add request on LinkedIn.
It’s irritating, especially if you have no France Email List chance in hell of ever being one of her/his customers. A sales person who sends you her/his sales pitch and drowns you in information in copy-paste manner through an inmail, without even bothering to call you Sir rather than Madam (or vice versa depending on circumstances). Third example, the business woman or man who scraped your email address by scanning LinkedIn after adding you in for a connection and includes it in his newsletter without your formal permission (in other words, who “spammed” you shamelessly and regardless of laws and ethics). I could go on like this forever.
I stopped being a customer five years ago and despite that, I have never been so annoyed on social media and mainly LinkedIn. Imagine what real decision makers are feeling. Many of these annoying salespeople’s products or services would be the solution to a considerable collection of problems. Yet, such methods are so unrelenting and brutal that they tend to be counterproductive. Grow your social selling index and become a sales Czar! Regardless of such bad practices, what is social selling exactly? What I understand from the pitches of its evangelists can be summed up in a few words: “Cold Calling is passé and ineffective: sharing information and attracting customers to you is far more relevant.
It’s irritating, especially if you have no France Email List chance in hell of ever being one of her/his customers. A sales person who sends you her/his sales pitch and drowns you in information in copy-paste manner through an inmail, without even bothering to call you Sir rather than Madam (or vice versa depending on circumstances). Third example, the business woman or man who scraped your email address by scanning LinkedIn after adding you in for a connection and includes it in his newsletter without your formal permission (in other words, who “spammed” you shamelessly and regardless of laws and ethics). I could go on like this forever.
I stopped being a customer five years ago and despite that, I have never been so annoyed on social media and mainly LinkedIn. Imagine what real decision makers are feeling. Many of these annoying salespeople’s products or services would be the solution to a considerable collection of problems. Yet, such methods are so unrelenting and brutal that they tend to be counterproductive. Grow your social selling index and become a sales Czar! Regardless of such bad practices, what is social selling exactly? What I understand from the pitches of its evangelists can be summed up in a few words: “Cold Calling is passé and ineffective: sharing information and attracting customers to you is far more relevant.
