
In this lecture you take one person you want as a client and draw the five steps between their first sight of your name and a call about their problem, with the time you spend and the time the step waits, so you can see why a cold offer sent on day one lands in silence.
This course is built from six disciplines: LinkedIn search, personal brand, social platform research, marketing, sales technique and prospecting automation.
The map of the course
A dictionary for reading lectures recorded for recruiting as social selling work
A self-diagnostic that points you at the right section
The Social Selling Path Map handout to fill in
Registering and what the platform does with an incomplete profile
Why profile completeness changes who sees you at all
Choosing the photo, which decides more than it should
Recognising fake profiles and understanding what they exist for
How to grow a network on purpose rather than by accident
Plugins that accelerate it, and joining the right groups
Adding the people who viewed your profile
What to post and what to share
Adding contacts properly, in volume, and messaging them
The standard set of search operators
The limitations LinkedIn imposes
Working around the operator limits
Reading your own profile through the queries other people run
Typical queries and search by current company and job title
Finding former employees and searching by tenure
Searching by group, language and certification
Finding people open to relocation, and searching by picture
Searching by the content someone has posted
What a paid account changes, and what Sales Navigator is for
Building searches with Google CSE
Tools for finding contact details behind a profile
Email campaign tools and verification services
Scraping tools for mass extraction
Automation tools, Boolean generators and writing assistants
Why a profile without a defined position is a list of jobs
The BRAND OS model and its six layers
An AI stack mapped to each task
Why a clearly positioned name beats a more accomplished one
What an audit covers, internally and externally
Running one with AI in four hours instead of three months
Competitive analysis, and how you are currently described
Health metrics: awareness, consideration, share of search
Mission, vision, values and purpose, formulated rather than borrowed
Architecture: one message or several
The positioning statement formula, and generating fifty options with AI
The messaging matrix: one position turned into six versions for six audiences
Visual identity: colour, typography, graphics
AI design tools and when each is worth using
Verbal identity: tone of voice, vocabulary, do's and don'ts
Keeping it consistent across every platform you appear on
The anatomy of a campaign: big idea, creative, channels, activation
Generating concepts with AI
The production stack for video, voice and copy
The channel mix behind a message that outlives one post
The metrics framework
Building a health dashboard
Social listening and mention monitoring on autopilot
The crisis playbook for the first 24 hours, and a 90-day roadmap
Why professional search moved onto social platforms
Internal search options on each
X-ray search across them
How behaviour differs from one network to another, and what that means for your presence
Internal search and what it can actually find
Searching groups and pages
How professional contact is made there without it reading as spam
Search operators revisited in a cross-platform context
The differences between account packages
Search plugins and working with groups
How to make contact so the message gets a reply
Internal search and X-ray on both
Specialised services worth knowing
Plugins for GitHub
Cross-searching one person across several networks
Internal search and X-ray on video and portfolio platforms
Finding contact details
Searching by nickname and connecting identities across platforms
Useful services for each
Finding channels and chats worth being in
How opportunities are advertised there
Discreet advertising as a format
Chat parsers and mass messaging services
Managing an online presence as a marketing task
Launching a site, and designing a landing page on Tilda
Gamification as an engagement mechanic
Building a community around your name
Recorded on an employer brand case from Wargaming; the mechanics transfer directly
Platforms and chat rooms as distribution
Referral programmes and how word of mouth is engineered
Applicant tracking systems, seen from the outside
Chatbots and the Google case study
Email as a channel that still outperforms most
Content marketing and video marketing
SEO fundamentals, applied to your own name
Writing copy that gets clicked and choosing images that help
The iDeals case study
Google Ads from a standing start
Google Analytics and what to look at first
Remarketing and its formats
Launching a first campaign without wasting the budget
Paid social advertising and how it differs by platform
Promotion on Facebook, X and LinkedIn
Promotion on YouTube and Instagram
Registering and maintaining a presence on all of them
Analytics as the step that separates a brand from a hobby
Cost per result and time to result
Sources: where your opportunities actually come from
Quality of what arrives, and building a monitoring report
The main stages of a sale and the AIDA sequence
SPIN: situation, problem, implication and need-payoff
Features, advantages, benefits and the expectations list
The value proposition canvas, mirroring and working with testimonials
Acquisition channels online and offline, analysed with SWOT
Buyer personas and client avatars
Cold calls, messages and email, qualified with BANT
The five-touch method, social selling and the elevator pitch
The ladder of persuasion and open questions that surface a need
Storytelling in the product presentation
Objections handled with LAER and Feel-Felt-Found
The alternative choice and the direct close
This course contains the use of artificial intelligence.
LinkedIn is not a digital CV. For a consultant, founder or B2B seller, it is a search engine, a reputation system and a sales channel operating at the same time.
The social selling problem
Most professionals use only one part of that system. They publish without a clear position, search without a repeatable prospecting method, or automate outreach before earning trust. The result is activity without conversations and connections without pipeline.
This course connects the full process: become findable, communicate a position prospects remember, publish content that creates credibility, identify the right people, start useful conversations and measure whether visibility converts into revenue.
What you will build
You will optimize your profile around the searches prospects and decision-makers actually run. You will create a positioning statement, messaging matrix, visual identity and content system so your profile works like a focused landing page rather than a list of previous jobs.
Then you will learn Boolean and X-ray search, Sales Navigator logic, prospecting plugins, contact discovery and multi-platform research across LinkedIn, Facebook, X, Instagram, GitHub, YouTube, Telegram and professional communities.
From visibility to revenue
Social selling is still selling. The course therefore covers AIDA, SPIN, BANT, buyer personas, value propositions, objection handling, negotiation and closing. You will connect content and outreach to a CRM, use AI and automation responsibly, and track CAC, LTV, conversion, pipeline quality and NPS.
A practical and honest curriculum
Several lessons were originally recorded for recruiting, employer communication and professional search. They are included because the mechanics transfer directly: the same Boolean query that finds a candidate finds a decision-maker; the same positioning architecture that builds an employer brand builds an expert brand. Every description makes that context explicit.
What is included
Lifetime access to all course materials
Active instructor support in the Q&A section
Udemy Certificate of Completion
Practical tools, frameworks and real business cases
Additional courses, resources and templates in the BONUS section
Who is teaching this
Mike is the number one HR instructor on Udemy, with more than 1.6 million course enrolments and over 150,000 professionals trained. He built the people function at the unicorn Preply and worked at Wargaming, Alfa-Bank and iDeals. His career and business grew through professional reputation, useful content and relationships built before a sales conversation began.
Start now
Open LinkedIn and look at your last twenty connections. How many could become a client, referral partner or credible introduction? This course turns that random network into a deliberate social selling system. Enrol and begin with your profile today.