I am fortunate to belong to a group of visionary women in sales called Sales SheBang®.  As part of our last conference, we put together an e-book of strategic and tactical articles on a variety of 

sales-related subjects, called Sell Better & Sell More. You can tap into the group's collective wisdom by  downloading the e-book here.

The basic gist of the book is that 23 of us were asked for practical ideas on how to grow sales.  An expansive question, to be sure, but one guaranteed to elicit a wide range of interesting responses.

 

Whether you are self-employed, or work for a large or small company, there is a part of all of our jobs that is sales-related.  This book will give you food for thought about how you can immediately ramp up your sales.

 

 

 Click Here to Download Sales E-Book!

 

Does that statement sound familiar?  I bet that you receive a number of these requests every month.   I got a handful of these this week - all using the exact same words and nothing more. The majority of requests were from people I did not know.  It's great that they wanted to connect with me, but there is one major challenge with it.  I don't know why.  I can look at their profile and decide if I want to be connected to that person or not - but I still don't have any context for their request.

 

Let's look at it another way.  Would you leave a voice mail message that simply stated "I'd like to add you to my professional network" and then just hang up?   Probably not!   So why do that using LinkedIn?