50 Excuses Not To Use Social Selling!

As social media, social selling, social recruitment trainers and consultants, we frequently hear a lot of excuses why people are not using social media to complement their traditional methods.

When it comes to social selling the EXCUSES are really fun to hear. So I decided to crowdsource most of the excuses we get from people on why they are not investing time on LinkedIn, Facebook, or other social media for #socialselling.

Here are the 50 most common heard excuses mentioned by salespeople.:

1.     I have no time

2.     I am working on other things

3.     I have enough prospects and appointments

4.     My customers are not on social media

5.     My customers are not active on social media

6.     I have no idea what to share or talk about

7.     I have no content to share

8.     My competition will see it

9.     Our industry is different and does not work like that

10.  I tried and it didn’t work

11.  It is too complicated

12.  My manager isn’t doing it why should I

13.  I don’t want to mix my private life with my professional life

14.  I am too old for this sh*t

15.  My boss does not want me to waste time on this social media stuff

16.  My boss does not trust social media

17.  Cold calling gives me more results

18.  It takes too long to bring anything to the table

19.  I get no results

20.  LinkedIn is my resume

21.  LinkedIn is for jobs

22.  If I post, people will think I look for a job

23.  Facebook is my private life

24.  It is a waste of time in my country or industry

25.  Are people really looking at my profiles?

26.  People in my country/industry/function are shy and very conservative

27.  Everything I post has to be approved by marketing and they have no time to do this

28.  People will think I am full of myself or just being stupid

29.  I am not allowed to share things with my customers

30.  Social media, that is just for advertising

31.  I do not know how to do it

32.  I do not all the features of LinkedIn, Facebook and the others

33.  That is the job of the social media manager or marketing

34.  Marketing is not giving me anything to share

35.  The only thing marketing gives it promo stuff and is of no interest to my customers

36.  If I make a mistake, I will get fired

37.  It is risky

38.  It is only for geeks or young people

39.  I have no writing skills

40.  My customers are not interested in my posts

41.  I am not on social media

42.  I hate social media

43.  I am afraid because people will laugh at me and my posts

44.  I prefer listening and not talking

45.  Customers will call me

46.  Should I really be on TIKTOK?

47.  People will see me as a pushy salesman/marketeer

48.  My customers are on vacation (most of the time)

49.  I am on vacation

50.  I already need to sandbag so why push the boat even further

So what other excuses would you like to add to this list? Or what is your favorite!

Contributors are:

Larry Levine, Bruce Johnson, Scott Newton, Zack Fowler, Stephen Quinn, Bianca Dardenne, Steven Philip, Walter Spruyt, Kathleen Cools, Michael Cameron, Artur ‘T Kindt, Patrick Van den Broeck, Alberto Pozzi, Loic Simon, Tehseer Ali, Erendiz Ates, Kevin Turner, Jenny Bjorklof, Mary Henderson, Omozuma, Jordi Gili, Bruce Bixler, Pierre Dagneau , Stella Da Silva, Cory Warfield, Paul Lewis, Charlie Whyman, Anne Thornley-Brown, Kim Savon, Lesley Picket, Carl Gypens, Victor Huiting, Virginia Franco, Tom Williams, Chloe Hacquard, and more