Shane Gibson is an international speaker and author who has addressed over 100,000 people on stages in North America, Southern Africa, India, Asia and South America. He is a widely sought after thought leader on the topics of social selling and digital marketing.
Shane’s books include Sociable! How Social Media is Turning Sales and Marketing Upside Down. Closing Bigger the Field Guide to Closing Bigger Deals and his book published by Entrepreneur Press (McGraw Hill) called Guerrilla Social Media Marketing, co-authored with Jay Conrad Levinson. Shane is also Canada’s only Guerrilla Marketing Master Trainer personally trained and mentored by Jay Conrad Levinson.
Blogging since 2002 and pod casting since 2004, Shane drives the majority of his business from social media, and social networks. He has been published in numerous publications as an authority on the topics of leadership, marketing, social media, and sales performance. Some of these publications include CMA Magazine, the Financial Post, the Globe and Mail, Profit Magazine and is a regular contributor to the Business in Vancouver digital edition.
When he’s not working or tweeting you can find Shane hiking or skiing in British Columbia’s Coast Mountain range with his family.
It’s time to get real about social media. We now have over 1.3 billion people and companies using social media daily. Every one is on it, so the assumption is that it must be a viable platform for communications, building relationships and growing businesses. The reality is social media as much as it has become a great communications channel, has also become of waste of time and in many cases counterproductive.
After 8 years of blogging, 7 years podcasting and hundreds of seminars on social media Shane Gibson had an epiphany – Somewhere along the way we forgot the goal and the purpose of social networking and social media. It’s about building relationships, community and driving business and personal value. Nanotribes is about people, and how to discover the lost art of connecting – while still staying plugged into the very digital marketplace.
This seminar can be customized for community groups, corporate environments or audiences of individuals. In this session you and your audience will learn:
Social media and social networks are becoming vital sources for prospecting, lead generation and client engagement. In fact a recent study of over 500 sales professionals found that 72.6% of sales professionals that use social media outperformed their peers that don’t. This of course is only true if you have a solid strategy and process to use social media as a tool – not a distraction.
In this session Shane Gibson will share with you:
Key Strategies for Using Social Media Profitably in Any Enterprise
Shane Gibson is Chief Social Officer of Socialized! Agency a Vancouver based social media agency that has worked hands-on with brands such as Ford, CGA Canada, CGA BC, Wizard World, DTM Systems, CDC Software, Make-a-Wish BC & Yukon and many other major organizations. Shane will share his in the trenches insights on what your organization can do to use social media profitably in his keynote “Leading the Socialized! Enterprise.”
In this fast paced session Shane Gibson will share with your audience:
Social media and social networks have become vital sources for prospecting, lead generation, client engagement and service. In fact a recent study of over 500 sales professionals found that 72.6% of sales professionals that use social media outperformed their peers that don’t.
In addition to social media literacy and insights today’s sales organizations need a bullet-proof sales process and strategy as well. The line between sales and marketing strategy as well as customer and vendor has become blurred. Today’s sales and marketing processes must be aligned and customer centric.
LinkedIn numbers over 380 million members which includes every Fortune 500 company, major government organization, most entrepreneurs in major city centers and 50% of recent university grads in North America. It represents a sea of opportunity for those people looking to attract prospects, retain clients and grow our revenue base.
Many of us are already busy – what we need to succeed with LinkedIn is a strategy that is easy to implement and can executed in a time efficient manner.
In this fast paced keynote presentation Shane Gibson will show you and your attendees:
Closing in sales is a process not an event. Your organizational sales success is not about one bold stroke recruiting talented sales people, it’s about having a strong process, sales playbook and the technology to execute it consistently. Tomorrows channel leaders need to have well developed people and technology strategies. In this session Shane Gibson will share:
Building and executing a strong B2B and Large Account Selling program
The path to consistently close large accounts is about having a solid proven process to attract, develop and close large accounts – and then working that plan intensely. If you’re looking to attract larger clients, increase the average size of your deals or just shorten your sales cycle this topic is for you and your team.
