23 Social Selling Stats, you need to know
- On average decision makers consume 5 pieces of content before being ready to speak to a sales rep.
- 10.8% of social sellers have closed 5 or more deals attributed to social media. (Source)
- 54% of social salespeople have tracked their social selling back to at least 1 closed deal. (Source)
- 72.6% of salespeople using social selling as part of their sales process outperformed their sales peers and exceeded quota 23% more often. (Source)
- 46% of social sellers hit quota compared to 38% of sales reps who don’t. (Source)
- 64% of teams that use social selling hit quota compared to 49% that don’t. (Source)
- 80% believe their sales force would be more productive with a greater social media presence. (Source)
- B2B buyers complete 57% of the buying decision before they are willing to talk to a sales rep. (Source)
- 92% of buyers say they delete emails or voicemail messages when comes from someone that they do not know.(Source)
- The average cold calling appointment rate is 2.5% (Source)
- 2/3 of companies have no social media strategy for their sales organizations. (Source)
- 93% of sales executives have not received any formal training on social selling. (Source)
- 53% of salespeople want help in understanding social selling better. (Source)
- 96% of sales professionals use LinkedIn at least once a week and spend an average of six hours per week on the professional networking site. (Source)
- 82% of prospects can be reached via social media. (Source)
- 50.1% of social salespeople spend between 5% to 10% of their time on social media. (Source)
- 21.7% of the sales people are not using social media, 18.9% cited not using it because they didn’t see the value and 45% cited because they did not understand social selling. (Source)
- 77% of B2B buyers said they did not talk with a salesperson until after they had performed independent research (Source)
- 36% of buyers said they didn’t engage with a sales rep until after a short list of preferred vendors was established. (Source)
- 84% of B2B decision makers begin their buying process with a referral. (Source)
- A warm referral increases the odds of a sales success 2x-4x. (Source)
- 71% of salespeople believe that their role will be radically different in 5 years. (Source)
- 69% of sales executives believe that the buyer process is changing faster than organizations are responding to it.(Source)
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