Social Selling & Prospecting - 2015 LMA/Blinder Digital Revenue Summit
1. In print & online, Sound Publishing…
Publishes 49 daily, weekly & monthly newspapers
Serves 100+ communities in Washington
Draws 2.3 million monthly unique digital visitors
Inserts more than 18.7 million preprints monthly
Distributes to more than 655,000 households
4. 2013 – Began testing social media
streams with Friends To Follow in 1
regional market (1 daily, 2 weeklies)
5. 2013 – Began testing social media
streams with Friends To Follow in 1
regional market (1 daily, 2 weeklies)
RESULT: 20% of sales claimed social
media as the driving factor
6. 2013 – Began testing social media
streams with Friends To Follow in 1
regional market (1 daily, 2 weeklies)
RESULT: 20% of sales claimed social
media as the driving factor
2014 – Expanded feature to all titles,
improved feature profile and saw
similar results across all markets