Episode 2: In Tune with Social Media
In this episode, Suzanne continues her successful automated campaigns, reaching the right target audience. In addition to these campaigns, she discovers the power of social media for generating traffic. The interplay between various marketing channels and social selling is highlighted as Suzanne and her team strive for effective conversions.
The campaigns are successful! Suzanne and her team manage to identify and target the right potential customers effectively. She discovers that, in addition to sending automated campaigns, generating traffic is also possible through social media. As a result, she begins exploring various platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and LinkedIn to further boost traffic. However, social media cannot stand alone and is even more effective when integrated with other marketing channels. What if she incorporates social media messaging into the plans for the other channels?
With her team, she gets to work, and they quickly realize that they are delivering a consistent and effective message to their target audience. Since social media is a two-way street, potential customers can now reach out to them much faster and more directly. These conversations contribute to customer engagement and provide new insights into the needs and behaviors of their audience. The methods of social selling are paying off.
By effectively applying social selling, Suzanne is able to nurture her MQLs (Marketing Qualified Leads) into SQLs (Sales Qualified Leads), turning interested followers into customers. In social selling, the focus is on listening to and understanding the needs of potential customers while providing valuable insights and solutions through online interactions. With social selling now integrated into the conversion process, Suzanne increases the likelihood that leads will actually convert into paying customers.
This piques the interest of the sales team. They want to improve communication with these new potential customers and ask the marketing team for assistance. Suzanne demonstrates that they can track potential customers’ interactions based on online behavior. Which pages are they visiting on the website, and what downloads are they interested in? They conclude that the sales team plays a crucial role in engaging conversations with potential and existing customers through social selling. It is now important to determine, based on the conversions from the automated campaigns, which leads are ready to make a purchase so that Mart’s team can actively pursue these opportunities.
In short, social selling contributes to the conversion process by providing a more personal and customer-centric approach. It enables sales teams to build valuable relationships, gain trust, and offer effective solutions to potential customers, increasing the likelihood of successful conversions.
Social selling is a great way to convert MQLs into SQLs in the entire conversion process in a more personal manner, where collaboration between marketing and sales is crucial.
Suzanne sees the potential and engages in a conversation with Mart to integrate this step within marketing and sales.