How is LinkedIn Like a Gym Membership?

I can remember talking to a potential client about helping them use LinkedIn in their business development efforts. The reply was something like, “Oh, we’re paying LinkedIn to train us.” Now, the last thing I want you to think is that I’m trashing LinkedIn. Without...

Springtime is LinkedIn Building Time

It’s springtime, which means two things. One, the weather is getting warmer. Two, summer is next up on the calendar. While we’re enjoying the springtime weather, for many salespeople summer signals the start of the “summer doldrums.” A lot of...

5 Myths of Social Selling

Do you know what social selling is?  It’s a moving target, I’m afraid.  In our current technology-rich world, many times new technology — and the ways we use that technology — out-pace definitions as well as standardized uses of said technology....