Stop Posting—Start Selling: LinkedIn AI Lead Generation & Social Selling Secrets with Joe Apfelbaum
The Proven Entrepreneur
Don Williams
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🗓️ 9 September 2025
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Welcome! Before you hit play, let me ask you this: What would your business look like if LinkedIn stopped being a noisy feed and started acting like your smartest sales partner? Imagine waking up to a calendar filled with qualified calls—not because you spent hours posting and praying, but because a system quietly worked behind the scenes, turning connections into conversations. That’s the world we’re stepping into today—a world where strategy beats hustle, and AI becomes more than a tool; it becomes your co-pilot for growth.
In this episode of The Proven Entrepreneur Show, Joe Apfelbaum, founder of evyAI, opens up about a challenge every entrepreneur knows too well: do you keep grinding endlessly, or is there a smarter way to build your pipeline?
You’ll hear how one simple mindset shift—seeing AI as a true business partner—can flip scattered hustle into real momentum that actually shows up on your calendar. This conversation is packed with insights you won’t want to miss!
Key highlights:
- A smarter approach to LinkedIn AI lead generation that prioritizes relationships over random reach.
- How an AI sales assistant for LinkedIn can handle the heavy lifting while keeping your voice authentic.
- Why social selling LinkedIn AI is the missing link between posting and profit.
- A peek into LinkedIn hacks for B2B that even LinkedIn insiders respect.
- And the game-changing role of AI agents for B2B prospecting in surfacing insights you didn’t know you needed.
If you’ve ever thought, “I’m posting, but where are the calls?”—this story nudges you toward the answer, then lets the full playbook unfold in your ears. Hit play and follow the breadcrumbs.
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| 0:00.0 | Are you an entrepreneur looking for more free time, more money, or just looking for that success blueprint? |
| 0:11.6 | The proven entrepreneur is the podcast for you. |
| 0:14.6 | Host Don Williams and his guests share real success stories from proven entrepreneurs. |
| 0:19.7 | Here's your host, Don Williams. |
| 0:25.3 | Hey, it's Don Williams with today's episode of The Proven Entrepreneur Show. Man, do I have a treat for you today? I have Joe Applebaum from Evie |
| 0:43.0 | AI, a true LinkedIn and true AI expert in an ocean of people who claim to be LinkedIn and AI experts. |
| 0:54.9 | Joe, welcome to the show. |
| 0:57.4 | Don, thank you so much for having me. |
| 0:59.3 | I'm honored to be here. |
| 1:00.9 | I love the connection that we have, |
| 1:02.8 | and I love seeing you on LinkedIn |
| 1:04.5 | and all the things that you're doing. |
| 1:05.8 | So thank you for having me on the show, |
| 1:07.1 | and I'm excited to get into it. |
| 1:08.7 | My pleasure, and even though we've known each other for some time now, somehow it just never happened |
| 1:13.8 | that we got together on media. |
| 1:16.8 | And so I'm thrilled for that. |
| 1:18.1 | So before we go too far, Joe, tell us about Evie AI, what it does, who your clients are, what's the benefit for someone using Evie. |
| 1:31.6 | So Evie AI is a sales assistant that helps people be able to be more successful on platforms like LinkedIn. |
| 1:38.9 | Most people, they don't really have an assistant. |
| 1:42.5 | And I heard at an EO event, Jack Daly say, if you don't have an assistant, |
| 1:47.9 | you are an assistant. So I tell people, you need to have a sales assistant that can support you to do |
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