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Cleverly: How To Drive More B2B Leads With LinkedIn Sales Navigator

LinkedIn is the top social network for B2B professionals in the world and, arguably, the best channel for B2B marketers to distribute and promote content. LinkedIn now has over half a billion members, with over 60 million senior-level influencers. There’s no doubt that your next customer is on LinkedIn… it’s just a matter of how you find them, connect with them, and provide enough information that they see value in your product or service.

Sales Representatives with high social network activity achieve 45% more sales opportunities and are 51% more likely to hit their sales quotas.

What is Social Selling?

Did you notice how I didn’t name this article How to Drive More Leads with LinkedIn? That’s because the limitations of LinkedIn truly make it impossible for a sales professional to fully leverage the platform for researching and identifying their next prospect. You’re limited to how many messages you can send each month, how many leads you can save, you can’t identify who viewed your profile, you don’t have access to every element available to search, and don’t have access to prospects outside your immediate network.

Step 1: Sign Up For LinkedIn Sales Navigator

LinkedIn Sales Navigator helps sales professionals target the right people and companies by zeroing in on the right prospects and decision-makers. With LinkedIn Sales Navigator, sales professionals can get sales insights for more effective selling, stay informed and up-to-date on your accounts and leads, and help to turn cold calling into a warm conversation. Features of the platform include:

  • Advanced Lead and Company Search – target leads or companies with additional fields, including seniority, function, company size, geography, industry, and more.
  • Lead Recommendations – Sales Navigator will recommend similar decision-makers at the same company and you can receive the leads on desktop, mobile, or by email.
  • CRM Sync – Take advantage of auto-populated, saved accounts and leads from your pipeline to your CRM updated daily.

With Sales Navigator you can easily keep track of leads and existing relationships, stay up-to-date on contacts and accounts, and utilize the platform to prospect easily.

Get A Free Trial of LinkedIn Sales Navigator

Step 2: Build Your Prospect List and Write Your Cold Copy

There’s a term that we use on LinkedIn when we connect with someone and are immediately hit with a crappy, inbound sales message… Pitchslapped. I’m not sure who came up with the term, but it’s absolutely on target. It’s like opening your front door and a salesperson immediately jumps in the door and starts trying to sell you. I say “try” because social selling really has nothing to do with pitching, it’s about building a relationship and providing value.

The team at Cleverly are experts at writing cold outbound copy that actually gets responses. They advise to avoid these three mistakes:

  1. Don’t be vague: Avoid industry fluff words and speak to a specific niche, so you can use insider lingo prospects actually use. Niching down massively boosts response rates.
  2. Use brevity: Anything over 5-6 sentences tends to be skimmed over on LinkedIn, especially when viewing on mobile. Tell your potential client how you can make their life better in as few words as possible. Many of Cleverly’s top-performing messages are 1-3 sentences.
  3. Provide Social Proof: A prospect’s first inclination is to not believe you. So, it’s critical to either name drop notable clients, state specific results you’ve gotten, or point to real case studies.

Cleverly writes message sequences that are clear, conversational, and value-driven for your prospect.

Step 3: Don’t Give Up!

Every direct marketing effort requires multiple touches to break through to the prospect. Your prospects are busy, they may not have the budget, or may not even be thinking about acquiring your product or service. That’s why it’s essential that you have a consistent, well-paced follow-up plan. Once connected to you, a prospect becomes a 1st-degree connection, and is in your network forever, so you nurture them with follow-ups and content.

Cleverly sends 2-5 follow-up messages to prospects, so they can provide more value in the sequence. For example, touch 3 is often a case study, proving your results.

Step 4: Scale Up Your Lead Generation With Cleverly

If this sounds daunting, you may want to pursue using Cleverly. Cleverly has its own team and platform where they network with your prospects on your behalf and then push the leads into your sales representative’s inbox where they can work to close them. This allows your salespeople to do what they do well… selling. Leave the social selling to Cleverly!

  • View campaign performance data in real-time
  • Easily manage sales conversations
  • Track your LinkedIn replies
  • View all your prospect's LinkedIn contact information
  • Export your LinkedIn contacts
  • Edit your LinkedIn outreach messages anytime
  • Chat real-time with Cleverly

Cleverly has a platform that provides you with an updated snapshot of your LinkedIn campaigns, including metrics like Connection Rate, Reply Rate, Total Number of Invitations Sent, and Total Number of Replied. Every time you get a positive reply in your LinkedIn inbox, Cleverly instantly notifies you via email. 

Get A Free Consultation With Cleverly

Disclosure: Martech Zone is an affiliate of LinkedIn Sales Navigator and Cleverly.

Douglas Karr

Douglas Karr is CMO of OpenINSIGHTS and the founder of the Martech Zone. Douglas has helped dozens of successful MarTech startups, has assisted in the due diligence of over $5 bil in Martech acquisitions and investments, and continues to assist companies in implementing and automating their sales and marketing strategies. Douglas is an internationally recognized digital transformation and MarTech expert and speaker. Douglas is also a published author of a Dummie's guide and a business leadership book.

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