Social Selling and Influence: Using Social Media for Cold Outreach and New Business Sales The sales world has fundamentally changed, yet many organizations are still forcing their teams to use a 1980s playbook of cold calling and spam email in what is an AI-driven and digital world. It's time to bring your selling and your sales team skills up-to-date and that is what this book is all about. Social Selling and Influence is the definitive guide for the modern new business salesperson. Written by industry pioneers Timothy Hughes (he wrote the pioneering books "Social Selling - Techniques to Influence Buyers and Changemakers") and Adam Gray, (who wrote the book "Brilliant Social Media: How to Start, Refine & Improve Your Social Media Business Strategy") This book isn't a collection of hopes and dreams around social media it's data-backed strategy based on Tim and Adam's over a decade in the Social Media business. Which will allow you to take back control of your territory, build a massive pipeline, crush your number and fall back in love with sales. Why You Need This Book Now The modern B2B buyer is in the driver's seat. Research shows that buyers are 61% to 71% of the way through the purchase journey before they ever contact a salesperson. They are using AI to research competitors and draw up shortlists long before you know they are "in market". If you aren't on that "Day One" shortlist, built on digital trust and familiarity, you aren't even in the race.