Keeping in contact with a client or prospect and at the front of mind during their customer journey can be easily achieved when meeting people face-to-face or communicating directly via a call, email, comms platform, etc. When extrapolated to keeping in the front of mind across all of your clients and prospects however, these are not scalable channels. 

Digital becomes a format for communicating on a much wider and regular basis, updating your key contacts with relevant information. 

Social selling therefore is not exclusively for sales people, but rather any client/externally-facing individual attempting to grow or maintain a business. It takes the core tenets of building lasting business relationships, applying them to digital and online networks. 

Taking the following 4 principles (that many professionals already execute well face-to-face) and applying them online, will enable you to disseminate your expertise in a scalable format, thereby establishing/reaffirming your position as the "go-to" expert in your field:

1. Establish your professional brand online 

- update social profiles and regularly create insight-led content 

2. Find the right people 

- identify where your clients/prospects are available online

3.  Engage with insights of key influencers in your field and of clients/prospects

4. Build relationships 

- harness the online networks to continue building valuable business relationships 

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