Linkedin Lead Generation Blog

Extend your knowledge with these tips, tricks and insights geared to help you reach your business goals.

Linkedin Lead Generation Blog

Extend your knowledge with these tips, tricks and insights geared to help you reach your business goals.

Bots in Sales: Helping, Not Replacing Human Connection ai sales strategies human-to-human framework linkedin automation prospecting sales Apr 26, 2024

Bot-Topia: Dream or Nightmare in Sales?

Imagine a world of bots calling bots. Bots emailing bots. Bots commenting on bot-generated posts. Bots pitch-slapping bots.

Bots, bots, bots, bots, bots...

Is this the "utopia" of fully automated AI sales assistants!?

Sure, automating tasks helps to...

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Founder-Led Sales: A Game Changer for Startups sales Jan 30, 2024

As a founder, you have unique advantages in driving sales due to your deep knowledge of the product vision and ability to convey passion. Harnessing founder-led sales can be a huge differentiator and can accelerate growth for early-stage startups and small SMBs.

Benefits include: 

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5 Steps to Effective Follow-Up on LinkedIn Without Being Pushy linkedin linkedintips outbound sales prospecting sales Jan 23, 2024

"She keeps showing up like a bad rash!"

A CMO told us about a sales person who just would not stop pestering him, even after he clearly told her he was not interested in her offer and was not going to schedule time to meet. 

“She just keeps showing up like a bad rash,” he told...

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My $335k Mistake: Lessons on Building an Effective Sales Team sales Oct 09, 2023

I lost over $335,000 before figuring out how to build a sales team.

Back in 2002-2005, I built the sales team for a fintech venture I co-founded. 

I was a complete novice when it came to recruiting and leading a sales team. 

I was pretty good at sales and spent 2 years teaching solution...

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How to Use ChatGPT for Sales Prospecting: 7 Prompts to Get Started linkedin linkedin automation prospecting sales Jun 22, 2023

Imagine if you could understand your ideal customer better, educate yourself about new industry trends faster, and brainstorm conversation starters all with the help of AI. Sounds too good to be true?

Welcome to the world of AI and ChatGPT. In this blog post, we'll share 7 prompts that can help...

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Yes But No, Should I Focus on an Industry? biz dev branding business development marketing sales Apr 10, 2023

Specialization is crucial for a software ISV (Independent Software Vendor) to achieve success in the highly competitive tech market. By focusing on a specific industry or domain, ISVs can create products that meet the unique needs and demands of that market. This not only helps the ISV stand out...

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7 Steps to Use LinkedIn for an Account-Based Strategy prospecting sales Oct 20, 2022

Is your team using an account-based marketing (ABM) and sales strategy? If you're not using LinkedIn as part of your enterprise account strategy, you're missing out. It's the perfect way to get the entire buying committee on board with your solution.

LinkedIn is an ideal starting point to get...

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Stay Human (or The Benefits of Being Human on LinkedIn) linkedin prospecting sales Jun 01, 2022

"LinkedIn is evolving away from human communication." 

That was a comment on a recent LinkedIn post about bots.

In a way, it's true. When people use automation on LinkedIn, it's never effective. But I've built so many great relationships on LinkedIn. And I'm doing real business on...

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How to Book Hundreds of Sales Meetings on LinkedIn sales Mar 08, 2021

As you build your network on LinkedIn, you also need to engage with your connections and book meetings to get acquainted and find out if they're a qualified lead.

When you do this, remember to put yourself in your prospect's shoes. They're not ready to buy from you yet...they don't even know you....

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Increase Likelihood of Winning a Sale by 74% sales Feb 10, 2021

B2B buying is a team sport. Depending on the size and complexity of your offering, you probably have anywhere from 3-10 stakeholders involved in the decision process for any sales opportunity. 

Studies have shown that if you connect on LinkedIn with at least 6 stakeholders in a particular...

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