Fri.Apr 27, 2012

Paul Gillin

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IBMer: ‘Social Selling’ Is a Sales Process in Itself

Paul Gillin

It’s no secret that the factors that motivate salespeople to change the way they work have to be pretty simple: Help them spend more time selling and less time scrounging for information and telling managers what they’re doing. So when IBM began to introduce the concept of “social selling,” it chose a test base of a few hundred salespeople and their managers to build a set of integrated systems that improved productivity and reduced administrative overhead.

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Anatomy of a Facebook Timeline

Paul Gillin

This was submitted by the folks at Wishpond , a maker of social marketing tools with specific emphasis on Facebook. It’s a pretty good anatomy of the new Facebook timeline. Click to enlarge.