Sales people and Account managers have been the main information source for B2B buyers and it has been like this from the beginning of Business to Business (B2B). If people wanted to learn about about a product or service they needed to engage with a sales person to find out the information. This placed the sales person in a position of power and they could influence the decision from early on in the research process.
This model of the sales person holding the power is no longer.
The Corporate Executive Board conducts research every year interviewing B2B buyers, C-suite Executives, Middle managers – the entire B2B buyers suite –. This research claims that 57% of the B2B buyers decision is complete before they call in the sales rep. They search on Google, LinkedIn & Twitter to get their information.
This is a big problem because if your buyers have already made up 57% of their minds with regards to your products and services. It pretty much leaves you as the supplier to bargain on price and you become commoditized.
So if you’re not good at social selling, you will always show up late for the show. That’s really a big issue because we all want to be considered at the very early stages of our buyers consideration when it comes to what we sell.
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This article was originally posted and published @ LinkedIn.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-benefits-social-selling-b2b-according-madelene-wadelius?trk=mp-author-card.
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