Should I look for companies or contacts first for proactive development on LinkedIn?
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Should I look for companies or contacts first for proactive development on LinkedIn?

Qixing Global analyzes the common reasons why LinkedIn proactive development should be done by finding companies or contacts first, the troubleshooting sequence, execution methods and core indicators, and helps individual SOHOs, internal to external factories and foreign trade teams improve the customer accuracy and effective business opportunities of LinkedIn proactive development.A common problem is that companies are judged only after randomly finding individuals, and it is easy to accumulate a large number of contacts with relevant roles but mismatched companies.

Should I look for companies or contacts first for proactive development on LinkedIn?
Should I look for companies or contacts first for proactive development on LinkedIn?

This problem is easy to be misjudged, because the platform data only shows the behavior and will not directly tell you the purchasing intention behind the behavior.The common root cause is that the company is judged after randomly finding individuals. It is easy to accumulate a large number of contacts with related roles but mismatched companies. This needs to be verified with real customer information.

It is recommended to extract the latest 20 to 30 interactors, visitors or leads, check the country, company, position, industry and demand, and classify them into three categories: target, possibly relevant, and obviously invalid.The efficiency of active development is first determined by the ideal customer profile and the quality of the target account. Precise search is not a pile of product keywords, but a combination of industry, region, scale, application, position and business signals.The sampling results can help determine whether the content, audience, or acceptance should be changed.

The next step for high-customer B2B orders is to first establish a target account, then find two to five key roles in the account and reach them hierarchically. Define ICP and exclusions first, then create a target company list, decision-making role map, search formula and verification fields, and save and review them in batches in Sales Navigator or basic search.Complete the full link check.Every time you make a change, you must clearly state what kind of invalid people you want to reduce and what kind of target customers you want to increase. You can't just write unverifiable goals like "improving results."

The platform layer looks at the target company matching rate, decision-making role coverage, effective list rate, data access, response rate and dialogue into demand confirmation, while the business layer is measured by target account coverage and multi-threaded dialogue.At the same time, record the first response time and next step results, because no matter how accurate the clue is, if no one follows up in time, it will be misjudged as a poor channel quality.

It is recommended to look at trends every week, make decisions every month, and review strategies every quarter.Only when continuous data and sales feedback support both, can active development investment be expanded; if the two conflict, first unify the effective lead standards, and then discuss the quality of the channel.

When this question is implemented, you can first use a small group of real target accounts to verify: Gao B2B first establishes target accounts, and then looks for two to five key roles in the accounts and reaches them in layers.After execution, don’t just judge based on your feelings, but measure it based on target account coverage and multi-threaded conversations; at the same time, save customer identity, version, date and subsequent sales results to avoid mistaking accidental replies for replicable methods.

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