A Conversation with Andreas Jonsson

Andreas Jonsson is the co-founder and CEO of SHIELD. As LinkedIn offers the unique opportunity to thrive in sales while leveraging your own personal brand, Andreas shares how individual contributors, entrepreneurs, and companies can achieve this. An individual's personal brand has a direct impact on sales and creates a tribe of like-minded people. When you find your content market fit, double down on it, and post your unique point-of-view around your product or service. When you provide true value, the revenue comes almost as a byproduct of helping others. 

HIGHLIGHTS

SHIELD: Helping individual content creators on LinkedIn 

Build leverage through your personal brand

Fear is the root of resistance from leaders 

Follower count is a vanity metric for content market fit

Create a tribe around your personal brand

QUOTES
Andreas: "We're actually focusing on creators, individual creators, a whole lot more. And when I say individual creators, it's a catch-all phrase right now. So it's someone creating content to help them in their job, so that could be a salesperson, a sales rep, but it could also be a solopreneur who's doing his own thing or an entrepreneur who's doing his own thing."

Andreas: "Once they started building their personal brand, things got easier. Not easy, but easier... It's never easy but it gets easier and that's something I felt with my very humble growth on LinkedIn and it's something I see everyday amongst the people who we are involved with. And, to me, that's just fascinating that you can work in sales and build leverage on LinkedIn through your personal brand."

Andreas: "For the one who actually has a given amount of followers, who puts out content consistently and see that number grow while the engagement rate is maintained, if you managed to get that going so that you can actually grow let's say 10% month over month with your followers, and you're posting everyday Monday to Friday, then you're doing something right."

Andreas: "If you're a salesperson, leader, or rep, or whatever and you're looking towards a market or a niche with a certain product offering certain benefits, you have some very unique knowledge around that space even though you sit next to another guy who's selling the same product. Everyone's unique. We've got different backgrounds, different stories, different experiences, different interactions with our markets, so we can all talk from a unique point of view."

Find out more about Andreas in the links below:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andreasjonssonn/
Website: https://www.shieldapp.ai/

More on Andy:
Connect on LinkedIn
Get Andy's new book "Sell Without Selling Out" on Amazon
Learn more at AndyPaul.com

Sponsored by:
Revenue.io | Unlock exponential growth with an AI-powered RevOps platform | Revenue.io
Scratchpad | The fastest way to update Salesforce, take sales notes, and stay on top of to-dos | Scratchpad.com

Explore the Revenue.io Podcast Universe:
Sales Enablement Podcast
RevOps Podcast
Selling with Purpose Podcast

Andreas Jonsson is the co-founder and CEO of SHIELD. As LinkedIn offers the unique opportunity to thrive in sales while leveraging your own personal brand, Andreas shares how individual contributors, entrepreneurs, and companies can achieve this. An individual's personal brand has a direct impact on sales and creates a tribe of like-minded people. When you find your content market fit, double down on it, and post your unique point-of-view around your product or service. When you provide true value, the revenue comes almost as a byproduct of helping others. 

HIGHLIGHTS

SHIELD: Helping individual content creators on LinkedIn 
Build leverage through your personal brand
Fear is the root of resistance from leaders 
Follower count is a vanity metric for content market fit
Create a tribe around your personal brand

QUOTES

Andreas: "We're actually focusing on creators, individual creators, a whole lot more. And when I say individual creators, it's a catch-all phrase right now. So it's someone creating content to help them in their job, so that could be a salesperson, a sales rep, but it could also be a solopreneur who's doing his own thing or an entrepreneur who's doing his own thing."

Andreas: "Once they started building their personal brand, things got easier. Not easy, but easier... It's never easy but it gets easier and that's something I felt with my very humble growth on LinkedIn and it's something I see everyday amongst the people who we are involved with. And, to me, that's just fascinating that you can work in sales and build leverage on LinkedIn through your personal brand."

Andreas: "For the one who actually has a given amount of followers, who puts out content consistently and see that number grow while the engagement rate is maintained, if you managed to get that going so that you can actually grow let's say 10% month over month with your followers, and you're posting everyday Monday to Friday, then you're doing something right."

Andreas: "If you're a salesperson, leader, or rep, or whatever and you're looking towards a market or a niche with a certain product offering certain benefits, you have some very unique knowledge around that space even though you sit next to another guy who's selling the same product. Everyone's unique. We've got different backgrounds, different stories, different experiences, different interactions with our markets, so we can all talk from a unique point of view."

Find out more about Andreas in the links below:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andreasjonssonn/

Website: https://www.shieldapp.ai/

More on Andy:

Connect on LinkedIn

Get Andy's new book "Sell Without Selling Out" on Amazon

Learn more at AndyPaul.com

Sponsored by:

Revenue.io | Unlock exponential growth with an AI-powered RevOps platform | Revenue.io

Scratchpad | The fastest way to update Salesforce, take sales notes, and stay on top of to-dos | Scratchpad.com

Explore the Revenue.io Podcast Universe:

Sales Enablement Podcast

RevOps Podcast

Selling with Purpose Podcast