B
Evidence Grade B
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69%
69% -- lead to opportunity rate for Social selling (2026)
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Value
69%
Unit
Percentage
Data Vintage
2026
Entity
Evidence Quality
B
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Score breakdown
Extraction
50
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
Social Media and Sales Quota Survey
Primary
Tier C
https://www.axongarside.com/blog/how-to-smash-your-sales-targets-using-social-selling ↗
Source Article
How to smash your sales targets using social selling
Original Research
Social Media and Sales Quota Survey
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Methodology
Compared to cold calling at 1%
Methodology documented
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Industrymarketing
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Social selling: 69% lead to opportunity rate. Source: Social Media and Sales Quota Survey (2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/social-selling-lead-to-opportunity-rate
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