B
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78%
78% -- salespeople outselling competitors via social selling for salespeople engaged in social selling (2026)
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78%
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Percentage
Data Vintage
2026
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B
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50
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
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HootSuite
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How Fashion Bloggers Have Blended the Roles of Marketer and Sales(wo)men
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HootSuite
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salespeople engaged in social selling: 78% salespeople outselling competitors via social selling. Source: HootSuite (2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/social-selling-outsell-78
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