With budgets shrinking and clients demanding more value for less money, acquiring new and profitable business tests the sales skills of even the most talented reps. Mobile technology, decentralized workforces and global competition make traditional client management and prospecting almost impossible.

So what can you do to identify prospects, connect and sell in this environment? Well you have to be where your clients are. And increasingly, that’s LinkedIn.

• LinkedIn is the #1 tool for effective business networking
• As of November 3, 2011, LinkedIn operates the world’s largest professional network on the Internet with more than 135 million members in over 200 countries and territories.
• Fifty-nine percent of LinkedIn members are currently located outside of the United States.
• There were nearly two billion people searches on LinkedIn in 2010. Based on third quarter 2011 metrics, LinkedIn members are on pace to do more than four billion searches on the LinkedIn platform in 2011.

So the math is simple. Sales managers and executives who use LinkedIn, and train their teams to use LinkedIn, will increase sales and grow their business.

If you are a sales manager or executive, give us the names of between 10 and 20 people in your sales force and we’ll do a comprehensive analysis of their LinkedIn presence. The S.E.L.L. Report Card This is a $500 value that we are currently offering as a thank you, just for considering The Sales Foundry.

If you are a Sales Rep, take our LinkedIn S.E.L.L. self-evaluation and find out how effectively you’re using LinkedIn.

LinkedIn Training will improve your sales

Companies hire The Sales Foundry to help their sales team reach higher levels of production. Our combination of speaking and innovative training programs combine time-tested selling techniques with new selling technologies.

Kurt Shaver has closed million dollar deals and worked with Fortune 500 companies. And he will help your sales teams reach higher levels and generate more business with innovative workshops, training programs and time-tested selling techniques and applying new selling technologies.

Contact us today and find out how we can help your sales team increase their targets – even as others are reducing theirs.