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CRM Sales Tip: Five Questions to Ask Yourself...........Look 👀 at the top prospects from your CRM pipeline. Then ask yourself these questions: ❓ How many LinkedIn connections are on your list within each company? You will probably be surprised when you do this exercise ❓Are you connected to all the functional leaders necessary for your successful sale such as finance, operations, admin, manufacturing, customer service, etc ❓Are you deeply connected? Do you know and connect with C-Suite, VPs, Directors, managers, and subject matter experts? ❓ Are you sending friendly, helpful, and valuable messages? (NOT pitching) Are you engaging with THEIR content as a friendly expert? ❓Are you following the LinkedIn company page? Have you interacted with content? Have you researched the organization? Take your current prospect list and supercharge 🔌 your progress by using LinkedIn to enhance your knowledge, relationships, and connectedness. Please let me know what else you will add to this list - because this is just the beginning! ---------------------------------------------------- Busy now? "Save this post" by clicking on three dots in upper right corner. Need LinkedIn help? Reach me ⬇️ Sandra Long Post Road Consulting: LinkedIn Consulting and Training Road Consulting: LinkedIn Consulting and Training

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Colleen Stanley, CEO

The leading sales expert on emotional intelligence for sales and sales leadership. Sales keynotes, emotional intelligence training for sales professionals and sales managers.

10mo

Please emphasize no pitching on the first outreach…amazed that this still happens!

Nancy Calabrese

Lead Generation | Appointment Setting | Cold Calling | Inside Sales Management | Sales Training & Coaching

10mo

Thanks so much for your suggestions Sandra Long!

Gwen Acton, PhD

CEO of Vivo Group | Influential Leadership for Science & Technology Organizations | AI-Enhanced Leadership | Author of "Leadership for Scientists & Engineers"

10mo

These are helpful questions, especially focusing on sending "friendly, helpful, and valuable messages" Sandra Long

Noel Turner

Director of Sales and Marketing at Threshold Visitor Management Systems, specializing in expiring visitor badges and Visitor Management software

10mo

Another list of great Linked In tips from Sandra Long! Thank you for your expertise.

Leslie Venetz

Done with you sales strategy & training for orgs that outbound | Keynote Speaker | Top 4 Finalist - 2024 GTM Advisor of the Year | 2024 Sales Innovator of the Year ✨ #EarnTheRight ✨ Debut Book Dropping in 2025

10mo

Great advice Sandra Long

Barbara Weaver Smith

Your guide to bigger deals with bigger customers

10mo

Great questions, Sandra Long. I doubt that most sales teams are looking at LI in that way. These are eye-opening ideas.

Karen Kelly

Sales Trainer | Keynote Speaker🎤 |Fractional Sales Leader| Sales Coach| Women Sales Expert| Helping Sales leaders Transform Their Team Through a Proven and Highly-Engaging Training Program.

10mo

Much needed questions to be asking yourself Sandra Long, in a complex deal up to 11 dm's. Do you know them? the departments they interact with? priorities they overlap on? This breadth of awareness positions you as a strategic partner vs a vendor. Thanks for sharing.

Lee Johnson, MBA

Award-Winning Technical Sales Leader & Career Coach Seeks Opportunities | Expert at Consultative Presales & Relationship Building | Empowering Talent to Drive Revenue Growth & Customer Success | LION | Let's connect! 🚀

10mo

Sandra Long Impressive list. Thanks for sharing.

Lisa Magnuson

"In complex sales, where the Art of persuasion, the Heart of empathy, and the Science of strategy seamlessly blend, extraordinary results are inevitable." – Lisa D. Magnuson, Chief Sales Strategist

10mo

Sandra, you are always adding value around LinkedIn engagement with your posts. Thank you!

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