Using LinkedIn to supplement your sales outreach and engagement strategy-22nd - Using LinkedIn to supplement your sales outreach and engagement strategy

22nd - Using LinkedIn to supplement your sales outreach and engagement strategy

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The speaker, Sam Aldridge, explained how LinkedIn can be used for social selling by building credibility, trust, and visibility rather than relying on hard sales. He described social selling as finding, connecting with, understanding, and nurturing prospects by using LinkedIn to learn more about their interests and professional activity.

A major theme was the buyer’s journey: most customers research independently, so salespeople often enter late in the process. By posting useful content early, sellers can influence awareness, education, and consideration stages, and reduce the “fear of messing up” that can delay decisions.

Sam outlined three key areas for LinkedIn success:  
1. <strong>Expressing your brand and personal profile</strong> — professional photo, strong headline, engaging summary, endorsements, and recommendations.  
2. <strong>Sharing valuable content</strong> — regular posts, team collaboration, customer-focused topics, polls, questions, and video.  
3. <strong>Building a network</strong> — using search filters, connection requests with messages, and tools like Sales Navigator.

He recommended posting about once a week, keeping content professional but authentic, and focusing on customer pain points. He also suggested practical AI tools for research and content ideas. The session ended with advice to map ideal customers, outline the buyer journey, and create a team-based content plan.

Keywords

LinkedIn social selling

buyer journey

personal branding

valuable content

network building

Sales Navigator

customer pain points

content strategy