Challenges with social media consistency ………..& rugby
With more and more people and organisations dipping their toes into the murky world of ‘Social Media’, I just wanted to comment on the need for consistency – which with the Rugby World Cup taking place at the moment, got me thinking about the synergy with refereeing rugby union games!…
ProofHQ – Branching Out Europe App of the Month
The process of creating sales or marketing content and getting it approved for use is often far from straightforward. Draft document version one will need colleagues’ feedback – usually a mix of verbal and written comments – to produce version two and so on, until there’s an end product which…
Hootsuite – Branching Out Europe Lead Generation App of the Month
Many businesses are seeing the benefit of social media. Social media gives you an unparallelled opportunity to research, monitor and engage with people who are relevant to your business. This can include existing customers, prospects, influencers within your field and even competitors. The management of this across different social networks…
All Change (Again): LinkedIn Connections Export Reinstated!
Last week, I shared an article on LinkedIn’s change of policy regarding exporting Connections data – https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/yet-another-linkedin-change-disabling-your-export-del-jones – and how the Connections data export function had been disabled. Well, no sooner had the ink dried … it would appear that LinkedIn have reinstated the feature … for now at least!…
(Updated) Yet Another LinkedIn Change – Disabling Your Connections Export
(NOTE: It seems LinkedIn does sometimes listen to it’s users. LinkedIn have now reinstated the connections export function. We’ve written a new article explaining exactly how to export your connections here) LinkedIn have a habit of tinkering with the platform features without warning. On July 22nd, LinkedIn’s Connections data export function, (the…
How to Improve Your LinkedIn Messages
If you’ve spent any time on LinkedIn, I’m sure at some point you’ve received unwanted ‘sales pitch’ messages from other LinkedIn users. Many of them launch straight into sales speak, telling you all about them and their business – Yawn! First contact on LinkedIn has to be about enquiring, not…
Using LinkedIn for Lead Generation in 2015 – INFOGRAPHIC
At the time of writing, LinkedIn currently has over 350m users worldwide, with 15m users in the UK alone. If you take a moment to consider those statistics, they’re pretty staggering. In 2015, LinkedIn is by far the most popular B2B networking tool, giving you the ability to identify, communicate and…
What is Social Selling?
There is a great deal of noise at the moment around ‘social selling’, but what is it and why is it important for every sales person to understand and use? Social selling isn’t new. Nope sorry folks, we’ve been doing this ever since the first market stall was established, millennia…
Profile Views – Branching Out Europe Lead Generation App of the Month
At Branching Out Europe we’re always striving to make social media more valuable to us and our clients. This is why our app of the month award for May 2015 is the chrome web browser extension Profile Views. This application allows you to easily see any LinkedIn users who have…
Lead Generation – Thinking Outside The Email Box
Email marketing has long been seen as the primary outreach for all businesses. After all it offers a low cost, broad-reach platform to message out to your prospects and customers. However, with over 100 billion emails sent every day, it’s becoming harder to be noticed. We understand and agree that many…
