By Jeff Mesnik
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It turns out that LinkedIn groups put all of your customers and prospects in one place, making it the perfect networking and sales tool for business-to-business organizations. Help your channel partners harness the power of LinkedIn by creating groups that will host discussions and encourage customer engagement.
A Group About Your Industry Not Your Company
A LinkedIn group can be an open forum to share industry related content and have industry focused conversations. The intent should not be to sell, but rather to be a go-to source for your partners’ peers and customers to discuss the latest trends and solutions.
The key to success when creating a LinkedIn group is to create a group branded around a niche within your industry. Avoid creating a company LinkedIn page. Instead, create a group branded around your company’s values and interests. This will build trust and will help build your channel partners’ overall credibility.
A Destination For Engagement
Much like your company’s blog, the intent for any LinkedIn group should be to create a destination for engagement. If the goal of the group is to build organic engagement, generating new leads from the engagement will be a natural result. Encourage your partners to engage in conversations and share content that promotes your company’s interests, without promoting the company itself.
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Jeff Mesnik has nearly 20 years of experience in high tech and marketing. Jeff leads ContentMX, whose mission is to increase engagement, multiply impressions, and expand a contact database to achieve tangible results, incorporating both email and social into a new age marketing platform. You can connect with Jeff on LinkedIn and on Twitter at @theopus.