A sales professional initially dismissed social media, then rebuilt his LinkedIn network from insurance peers to actual prospects. Now short videos let buyers know him before he calls, turning social media into a sales tool instead of a personal feed.
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I was certainly skeptical because I was not a social media person. So I mean, that was the first thing, you know, I would, I would add a few things here and there with, you know, Facebook or Instagram for family stuff, but I wasn't somebody that felt I had something valuable enough to share. But then secondarily, my LinkedIn connections were basically industry connections. You know, I was in a role of, of trying to recruit salespeople in the insurance industry. So most of my contacts were insurance people. And I was like, nobody's going to care about what I do for clients because my audience was wrong. So I would say that first couple of years was a lot of repositioning my connections and my following to look at the companies that I'm calling on, to look at the contacts that I need to have see my content and engage with them. But now as I look at it, it's, you know, again, I do less social media than I've ever done. It's just this format. It's being able to, again, share your ideas in a quick snippet so people get to know you. So my hope is when I call them, I email them, I stop by their office and they want to know more, they can always check out a video or I can share that with them