{"id":276,"date":"2019-11-08T04:46:25","date_gmt":"2019-11-08T04:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/digitalselling\/?page_id=276"},"modified":"2019-11-13T05:46:04","modified_gmt":"2019-11-13T05:46:04","slug":"chapters","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/digitalselling\/chapters\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapters"},"content":{"rendered":"[mk_page_section padding_top=&#8221;50&#8243; padding_bottom=&#8221;50&#8243; sidebar=&#8221;sidebar-1&#8243;][vc_column][mk_fancy_title size=&#8221;40&#8243; margin_bottom=&#8221;0&#8243; font_family=&#8221;none&#8221;]Chapters[\/mk_fancy_title][\/vc_column][\/mk_page_section][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Here is a rough , unedited version of the Chapters outline.<\/p>\n<p>Digital Selling<\/p>\n<p>Social Selling &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Difference between Digital Selling and Social Selling<\/p>\n<p>Why both are important?<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;omni-channel&#8221; approach to modern selling<\/p>\n<p>What NOT to do in Digtial Selling. Pitfalls to avoid.<\/p>\n<p>How to implement good digital and social selling in your organization.<br \/>\nSetting clear expectations. What to expect. What NOT to expect.<\/p>\n<p>Building Credibility and Trust.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>PERSONAL BRANDING:<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>How to build your personal brand\n<ul>\n<li>Transform your profiles to attract right customers\/clients<\/li>\n<li>How to establish yourself as a credible, trustworthy and knowledgable person.<\/li>\n<li>Enhancing your social credibility<\/li>\n<li>Author a book<\/li>\n<li>Enhance your likeability factor.<\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Create personas<\/li>\n<li>Inculcating the culture of social selling in your organization. (how CEO, Sales, Marketing, Product, HR has a role to play and not just any one team.)<\/li>\n<li>How to convince your boss about the importance of Social Selling<\/li>\n<li>Building a Lead Generation Routine<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>MARKETING AUTOMATION<\/strong>: Touch upon tools like HubSpot, Zoho etc. \u00a0OR should I call it as<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>DIGITAL SALES AUTOMATION<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Prospecting Tools<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Marketing Automation<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Pipeline Automation Tool<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Prospect Activity Tracking<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Order Management<\/p>\n<p><strong>CREATING SOCIAL CONTENT<\/strong>: Strategy for creating high quantity (high volume) content. Cover frequency of content.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Blogging<\/li>\n<li>Quora : Answer relevant questions on Quora that is genuinely helpful. Create an absolute authority in one domain.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Strategies for creating high quality content. Cover timing of the content. Edge algorithm.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Setting up a content calendar.<\/p>\n<p>Creating a multi channel campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Why content creation and content curation is important.<\/p>\n<p>The rise of visual content.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Importance of content amplication and creating followers.<\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>STORYTELLING<\/strong>: Using stories to enable better sales<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>VIDEO<\/strong>:<br \/>\nVideo Strategy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>LIVE Video strategy. FB Live.<\/p>\n<p>Webinars to collect leads.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ORM<\/strong> .<\/p>\n<p>How this has a direct impact on sales.<\/p>\n<p>What others say about you is more important than what you say about yourself.<\/p>\n<p>Importance of capturing customer testimonials. Encouraging them to talk about you.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>ONLINE REVIEWS: The massive importance of online reviews. How to deal with \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 negative comments. How to encourage people to leave more comments.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SOCIAL PROOF<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>COMMUNITIES<\/strong>: How to build, nurture communities and seen as a thoughtleader. \u00a0How to build a targeted niche audience that dirves the right engagement.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><\/li>\n<li>Crowdsourcing user generated content<\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>SEO<\/strong> : Using Search Engine Optimization and other techniques to get inbound traffic.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SOCIAL LISTENING:<\/strong> \u00a0Best tools. Best practices. What to do with the information once you have found them. \u00a0Identifying trigger events.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><\/li>\n<li>Developing search strings to create list of prospects and influencers.<\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li><strong>Competitor Analysis. <\/strong><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li>Measuring your social influence.<\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li>Freemium model. Letting people to experience your product or service.<\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>PAID ADVERTISING:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Paid Strategy using Paid advertisements like Google Ads, Linkedin Ads.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Google Adwords: Using Paid Advertising to Microtarget your prospective clients.<\/p>\n<p>Landing Pages to capture the right leads.<\/p>\n<p>Paid vs Organic. How to get the right mix of both.<\/p>\n<p>Re-targeting. How to do it. Best practices. Examples.<\/p>\n<p>Micro-targeting your niche clients. Techniques to do that.<\/p>\n<p>Account based marketing<\/p>\n<p>Geo-specific targeting<\/p>\n<p>Domain and vertical areas specific targeting<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Watch, Learn and Implement best practices from other domains.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How much will the entire social selling initiative cost?<\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li>Integrating offline and online selling<\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li>How to sell online without being intrusive. The Valuable part of not being aggressive but being helpful.<\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li>Importance of having a mobile first strategy in social selling<\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>INFLUENCER SELLING:<\/strong> Influencer Marketing and Using the power of Trust.<\/p>\n<p><strong>EMAIL MARKETING:<\/strong> Email Marketing to generate leads.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8211; Sales email templates<\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li>Leveraging notifications to keep your brand on top of mind recall.<\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li><strong>Employee advocacy<\/strong> and its relevance in social selling<\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li>Hiring Digital Sales Specialists<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 DIRECT:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Engage with Personalized Outreach<\/p>\n<p>Reaching out directly<\/p>\n<p>Growing your network<\/p>\n<p>Ask for an introduction<\/p>\n<p><strong>SOCIAL\u00a0 NETWORKS:<\/strong> The best practices to enable social selling in each network<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Linkedin\n<ul>\n<li>Should you go for free, premium or sales navigator?<\/li>\n<li>How to Improve Linkedin&#8217;s Social Selling Index<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Facebook<\/li>\n<li>Instagram<\/li>\n<li>Quora<\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Digital Selling Tools<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Make a master list of all tools. I\u2019ll figure out how to lay them out. For now, its best to have all the tools listed here.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Importance of a Digital Sales Hub.<\/p>\n<p>How to Convince your Boss about the importance of Social Selling. How to educate the C-Suite. How to calm their fears and apprehensions.<\/p>\n<p>How to effectively scale a social selling habit within an organization?<\/p>\n<p>Measuring the success of Social Selling<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.close.com\/sales-strategies\">https:\/\/blog.close.com\/sales-strategies<\/a> : This has 42 excellent questions that will help<\/p>\n<p>Social Selling Playbook: Create an action plan that the user can actually fill. (great idea). I guess Playbook also means templates. There are digital sales templates that I can make use of.<\/p>\n<p>FURTHER READING<\/p>\n<p>Books <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.insidesales.com\/social-selling-2\/social-selling-books\/\">https:\/\/blog.insidesales.com\/social-selling-2\/social-selling-books\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Podcasts<\/p>\n<p>Videos<\/p>\n<p>White Papers<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>REFERENCES:List out all the resources, websites, videos that I took content and inspiration from.<\/p>\n<p>Kiruba&#8217;s Digital Selling Workshop<\/p>\n<p>Bio of Kiruba<\/p>\n<p>Kiruba as a Professional Speaker specializing in Digital Excellence.<\/p>\n<p>Info about Breathe Digital<\/p>\n<p>My Other Books<\/p>\n<p>How to reach Kiruba<\/p>\n<p>Info about Professional Speakers Association of India[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[mk_page_section padding_top=&#8221;50&#8243; padding_bottom=&#8221;50&#8243; sidebar=&#8221;sidebar-1&#8243;][vc_column][mk_fancy_title size=&#8221;40&#8243; margin_bottom=&#8221;0&#8243; font_family=&#8221;none&#8221;]Chapters[\/mk_fancy_title][\/vc_column][\/mk_page_section][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Here is a rough , unedited version of the Chapters outline. 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