Rathling's Ramblings (Edition 8)

Coming up in this edition and why you will find it useful:

• What's been happening at Linked Inbound? Latest Updates & News
• Top Tips for LinkedIn during Summer Months
• Sam's Social Selling Challenge: 26-30 July
• #AweSam LinkedIn? posts you might have missed!
• My brand new Podcast!! Social Selling with Sam launching w/c 26th July
• Mental Freedom: A Skill Every Business Professional Should Master
• About the Author

What's been happening at Linked Inbound?

Another crazy month at Linked Inbound!! Last Friday I ran a free LIVE event for over 270 people from 35 countries ??, on how to generate business from LinkedIn. Amazing feedback and I will be running another FREE event on August 25th, the details will go out in my next newsletter, so for now, save the date if you missed the last one!

We have onboarded some incredible new clients this month in the Mobile Technology space, as well as an Intelligent Automation business and an Environmental Consultancy. All companies are now working with our amazing team of LinkedIn ninjas to build their sales pipeline strategically through a combination of amazing content and personalised prospecting. We love ?? working on their campaign strategy and helping them to identify and target the right people for their business.

Lianne Saxton, Karen Eley, and Eliz Salih all celebrate their work anniversaries with us this month! It's incredible to see our company growing, and watching the development of our incredible superstar team is something I cherish and thrive on.

A Corporate Sales team we trained during March and April over 12 deep-dive interactive sessions already have over ￡256,000 in their sales pipeline in their first 90 days. It's early days and they are getting used to implementing those daily and weekly habits with consistency, and now it's starting to pay off. Social Selling is a marathon, not a sprint. I am delighted to see them posting their success into their LinkedIn group and to see them dominating the newsfeed in their industry is just fantastic.

This month we hit the ￡100million mark!! We have now helped our clients to generate over ￡100million in new sales from LinkedIn and I couldn't be happier ??. It's our big mission to create ￡1billion in additional sales for people whom we have inspired and made an impact on. Remember to let me know if you implemented a tip from me or my team's content, my book, my videos, my Academy, or training and we will add your results to our very LARGE total (which is going up every month!).

I managed to squeeze in a 5 day trip to Portugal in June, to see my Mum and Dad, and it was so lovely to get away, how I've missed travel!! It also inspired this month's article (see below).

Thanks for being here, thank you for subscribing and I hope you enjoy Edition 8 of Rathling's Ramblings...

My Latest Article: Top Tips for LinkedIn over the Summer Months

Sam's Social Selling Challenge: 26-30 July

Ever wondered how to move the needle on your SSI score to improve your chances of generating leads from LinkedIn?

Ever wanted to just clear your 'I must do that' list of LinkedIn jobs that you never get around to, like updating your profile, figuring out your target market, and what you are going to say to them to start a conversation?

Ever thought I'd love to spend time with Sam but how can I possibly afford it? Welcome to Sam's Social Selling Challenge! Spend 5 days with me, 3 days with LIVE interactive sessions, and 2 days of implementation, all designed to drive up your LinkedIn Social Selling Score by a minimum of +5 points. Last month we achieved a +15 point increase for one Challenger who went from being stuck with an SSI of 63, to a whopping 78 in just 5 days!

At only ￡97 + VAT, it's the easiest way to give your LinkedIn activity a kickstart and will set you up with a plan with the right daily habits to lead you to more business from LinkedIn. To learn more go here: https://bit.ly/samschallenge . If you can't make it that week (26-30 July) then drop Adam Jacques in my team a message for details of the September Challenge.

Will you take the Challenge? Go on... I know you want to... click here to sign up .

#AweSam LinkedIn Posts You Might Have Missed

What really is Social Selling? A great post by Lianne Saxton debunking the myths around the buzzword that is 'social selling':

Prospecting Tips: I am always talking about the importance of consistency when it comes to prospecting, building a pipeline through LinkedIn takes consistent action and patience. For those not ready to buy now, it's all about nurturing them and staying top of mind, so when they are ready to buy, they think of your first because you have built up trust and credibility and you've been visible with your potential target market. Follow #LiannesLessons for more posts like this.

My brand new Podcast: Social Selling with Sam

It's one of those things I have been wanting to do for such a long time, I have put it off and put it off, other things have taken priority. I know what a commitment it is, and I didn't want to start a podcast without being sure that I could dedicate the time and resources to making it the best and highest-charting podcast on the topic of Social Selling and LinkedIn available.

So during w/c 26th July, the podcast will launch, the first 5 episodes will be released on that first day with future episodes going out weekly thereafter.

I will send out my next LinkedIn newsletter Edition 9, on the day of the Podcast launch so you lovely people can subscribe and download it, and let me know what you think! I will be doing a combination of short snappy 15-20 mins episodes packed full of tips, and longer shows where I will interview Social Selling superstars, people who are crushing it on LinkedIn from my client base, as well as bringing on other experts in the world of personal branding, sales, content, video, social selling, storytelling and more...

If you would like to be a guest on the show, or you'd love to see me interview someone in your network who deserves an interview, then let me know in the comments below, give them a shout-out!

Mental Freedom: A Skill Every Business Professional Should Master

I wrote this post to inspire and share my experience over the last month of having newfound 'Mental Freedom'. What is it? Well based on the comments in the post not everyone really 'got it', let's see what you think...

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About the Author

Sam Rathling is a LinkedIn? Expert & Social Selling Strategist based out of Derby in the East Midlands. Sam and her team are on a mission to generate over ￡1billion in sales for their clients by 2025.?Sam is Best Selling Author of "Linked Inbound'.

An international Speaker, she is considered to be a global authority on building sales pipeline through LinkedIn?.?Yahoo! Finance recently named her as a Top 10 Global LinkedIn? Expert to follow. Since Jan 2019, Sam and her team have helped companies to generate in excess of ￡100m in new business from this platform.?An Award-Winning Entrepreneur, best known for her practical, no-nonsense, easy to implement training that transforms the sales pipeline of her clients.

As the Chief Visionary Officer (CVO) & Founder of Linked Inbound & the Pipeline 44 Group, she leads an amazing team of LinkedIn? ninjas. Sam runs this specialist agency delivering marketing campaigns to strategically building sales pipelines on behalf of her clients.?Pipeline Pro is suitable for business owners who don't have the time or resources in-house to prospect consistently to generate a flow of leads from LinkedIn? every month.?To learn more about Pipeline Pro, click here.

Sam inspires C-suite leaders, business owners, and sales & marketing professionals to generate massive results through LinkedIn? & social selling.?Sam trains her clients through her on-demand, video-based online?Pipeline Academy , as well as delivering in-house and virtual programmes with large enterprise clients looking to transform their sales pipeline and embed social selling throughout their entire organisation. Want to train your sales team??Book a Call here.

To get hold of a copy of?Sam's book , which is available on Kindle and in Paperback.?Click here .

Sam is working on her next book, "Linked Outbound", if you have a social selling story to share, please send Sam a message and let her know your LinkedIn? success story!

You can reach Sam on?[email protected] ?or by sending her a message on LinkedIn?, although be patient, it's a busy inbox (as you can imagine!) and she may have her 'Away message' on if you message her in August!