Welcome to a new episode.

Before we start, I need to let you know that there will not be an episode next week, I’m off to lay in the sun on a beach somewhere exotic (ish). So the next episode will be published on 27th October.

This week I chat with Kurt Shaver about the challenges and opportunities of using LinkedIn and social selling techniques when working in a corporate environment but first I thought I would share these things with you;

Interesting Stuff I Saw This Week

• LinkedIn Local Manchester was a huge success and the ‘Find nearby’ feature in the mobile app worked really well.
• Google+ is shutting down
• LinkedIn acquires Glint

Interview with Kurt Shaver

Click on the image to view Kurts profile

Useful links to things Kurt referred to

• Sales Navigator Grows Up and Plays Well With Others – This article contains information about the CRM’s that integrate with Sales Navigator

The three versions of Sales Navigator (click on the image)

• EveryoneSocial 
• Octopost
• Dynamic Signal
• GaggleAMP
• Selling with Social podcast
• Social Business Engine podcast

Thanks for the reminder about the editorial calendars, they have stopped doing them but the subjects are still relevant.

Click on the image to see all the picksAs for the question, I have found that responding to comments immediately can be helpful, especially if it’s in the first hour of the post but it doesn’t make much sense to reply to many comments at once, it is much better to spread out your engagement over a period of time. This is probably why you have seen some success with this method.

That’s all for this week……back in two weeks.