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How Sales Leaders Can Use LinkedIn KPIs to Improve Their Sales Teams’ Social Selling Process

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Stop the random social selling—Use sales KPIs to measure your team’s success.

There’s a lot of truth in the old saying, “You Can’t Manage What You Can’t Measure.” The use of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) is vital to the success of most sales activities, but especially for LinkedIn. If you aren’t defining and communicating clear expectations of both the activity and results, you will simply get random acts of social. Before you begin establishing your team’s sales KPIs, consider three things:

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There are many social selling KPIs that can be tracked and measured. Here are five specifically focused on LinkedIn, which, if implemented correctly, will have an immediate impact on guiding your reps to focus on the activities proven to convert to business:

1. Growing Their LinkedIn Network with the Right Stakeholders – This KPI is simple to measure, yet powerful. It provides insight into whether or not your reps’ activities are targeting the right connections.

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2. Converting New Connections to Phone Calls and/or Appointments

3. Getting Engagement on Shared Content that Converts to New Connections

4. Client Referrals to Appointments

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5. Number of Introduction Requests to a LinkedIn Connection that Convert to Phone Calls

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These are just five of the many sales KPIs available for sales managers to measure. But when you do, you could use the findings to improve your sales strategy. You are also equipped with quantitative insights on how to effectively coach your team to better success. 

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10 thoughts on “15 LinkedIn Profile Optimization Tips to Get Found This 2023”

  1. My LinkedIn account was ranking on the first page for best mommys blog keyword quite a few years back and I didn’t have any idea. While working, I stumbled upon the Analytic section of LinkedIn and saw that most of the visitors are coming from search engine later on I realized that in my profile I’ve used “Mommy’s blog” word a lot of time and that is the reason why it was ranking well on SERP. This is how I came to know about SEO and I was also amazed by the fact that how easy it was to rank for competitive keywords back then. Anyways loved your article and please share more tips on SEO.

  2. There is a lot of value in this article, especially for those looking to improve their visibility on LinkedIn. My favorite of the fifteen tips shared in this article is number nine. I’ve observed that people with custom profile links, seem to get more attention than those who haven’t customized their LinkedIn profile URL. Interesting article, thank you for taking the time to put it together.

  3. I agree with the recommendations, they are a very important part of our strategy on LinkedIn, it can give confidence to potential customers (or leaders when someone is looking for a job).

  4. People shouldn’t underestimate keywords on their LinkedIn profile! This helped potential buyers to find me on LinkedIn more easily when they searched for certain products and/or services. Thanks Viveka!

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