About us

We make invisible expertise visible

Just Connecting helps B2B companies turn what their people know into the trust that wins business. We’ve been doing this since 2009, with 300,000+ professionals and 1,000+ companies worldwide.

The problem we solve

Your best people are invisible to the market

Every professional decision, who to hire, who to buy from, who to trust, gets made before anyone picks up the phone. People search. They check profiles. They read posts. They ask their network. By the time they reach out, they’ve already decided.

Most B2B companies are invisible in that process. Not because they lack expertise, but because their best people have never learned how to be findable and credible before the conversation starts.

That’s where we come in.

Martijn Holtes speaking

What we do

Four ways we build trust at scale

We help organisations make the expertise inside the building visible outside of it. Through personal branding, employee advocacy, social selling, and LinkedIn strategy.

Thought leadership

We position your experts as the people the market thinks of first. Not by being loud, by being clear, consistent, and credible. From unique point-of-view development to profile and presence building.

Employee advocacy

Most advocacy programs fail because they treat everyone the same. Our VIBE method maps different roles so everyone contributes at a level matching their strength and motivation. You can’t mandate authenticity, but you can create the conditions where it happens naturally.

Social selling

We turn sales professionals into trusted advisors who reduce buyer risk before the customer is ready to buy. Our PROVE method replaces cold outreach with relationships that convert.

LinkedIn marketing

We help your marketing and communications teams use LinkedIn as a strategic business system, not just another channel. From company page strategy to campaign planning and content support.

Just Connecting workshop session

What makes us different

We start with people, not the platform

We start with the individual

When employees feel ownership over their own visibility, company advocacy becomes natural, not forced. That’s the philosophy behind everything we do.

Methodology, not hacks

Personal branding, authority building, consultative selling. These skills transfer regardless of which platform dominates next year.

Personal success meets company growth

When individuals build their careers, companies get better advocates. Both win.

Trusted by

Siemens Capgemini Mercedes-Benz Nestlé Teva PwC Deloitte Panasonic Salesforce Hitachi InterSystems Siemens Capgemini Mercedes-Benz Nestlé Teva PwC Deloitte Panasonic Salesforce Hitachi InterSystems

The team

Meet the people behind Just Connecting

Richard van der Blom
Richard van der Blom
Co-founder,Keynote speaker and Strategist

Born in the Netherlands, currently living the Spanish life. Richard leads on social selling, lead generation, and virtual selling. His focus on measurable commercial impact keeps everything we do tied to real business results.

Martijn Holtes
Martijn Holtes
CEO & Co-founder, Strategist, Trainer, Speaker

Born and raised in the Netherlands, still there. Martijn is the strategist and trainer behind the methodology. He developed many frameworks and strategies and focuses on Employee Advocacy, Social Selling and Thought Leadership, and the psychological barriers that keep experts invisible.

Our certified consultants

Ieva
Ieva

Marketing & analytics. She turns data into direction.

Rose
Rose

Employer branding & content strategy. She helps companies find their authentic voice.

Ritchie
Ritchie

LinkedIn & social selling trainer. Also teaches at the University of Vienna.

Nurjesa
Nurjesa

Content creation. She builds the content that makes expertise visible and shareable.

Ready to make your expertise visible?

Whether you’re looking to activate your sales team on LinkedIn, build an employee advocacy program that actually works, or position your experts as the go-to voices in your market, we can help.