Why B2B is actually P2P

In this episode of the B2B Digital Marketer Podcast, Frank Somma shares what are the core elements you could be missing when you create that landing page, LinkedIn Post, Facebook Update, or Tweet. Do you know?

Frank Somma, author of B2B is Really P2P: How to Win With High Touch in a High Tech World shares in this episode that he found the key differentiator is always him. But you can’t hire Frank – and you don’t need to.

What Frank refers to are the skills that need to be a more prevalent part of your digital marketing that frequently we may have viewed as obscure or not considered at all.

As a digital marketer, you have to move people to a sale by removing perceived risk and opening the potential for trust to enter your ideal client’s mind. You don’t need to learn to be a silver-tonged devil or a wizard of sales copy.

Frank shares insights into how to listen better, understand better and serve better. It’s about creating a connection.

Your ideal clients are sorting through so much information out there-many things coming at them all day every day. How do you help them to distinguish your organization’s solutions from another? Frank knows how, and he shares that in this episode.

Frank is a sales and communications expert, speaker, author and lifelong charity fundraiser.

His sales expertise is born from a varied background:

His discipline comes courtesy of his time with The United States Navy’s Presidential Honor Guard where he served under Presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan

His heart comes from his lifelong devotion charity work. Frank was the longest sitting national president for The Cooley’s Anemia Foundation

His sales leadership expertise was developed during his long tenure as a partner and sales VP with CBS, an office automation company in New York and subsequently with Toshiba NY/NJ.

Frank took his NLP, Neuro-Linguistic Programming, education at the NY Institute for NLP and earned his practitioner degree in that communication science.

He has been speaking and training professionally for over 15 years winning accolades from such notable companies as DLL Bank, GE, Xerox, and K Hovnanian

His new book B2B is Really P2P how to win with high touch in a high tech world just came out in January of this year

Frank lives in Holmdel, NJ with his longtime love Deborah, and when he isn’t occupied with one of his businesses, he’s either out running with his dog, or in the kitchen cooking for his kids and grandkids.

Timestamps/Outline

01:16 – Frank’s background with B2B Digital Marketing

02:59 – The importance of being personal in digital

04:01 – How Neuro-Linguistics Programming helps you understand your customers

06:42 – How understanding your customers can help you differentiate your product.

08:20 – As a marketer, you are the differentiator

09:45 – The importance of tonality and body language in communication

11:23 – Why watching matters

12:57 – Everything you do must reflect the message you want to bring.

15:52 – The disconnect between marketing and sales

19:06 – Investing in personal connections on your digital pipes

21:36 – The importance of after sales