Paul Gillin

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Not Dead Yet: Blogging’s Popularity Surges Among F500

Paul Gillin

Nora Ganim Barnes and her team at the Charlton College of Business Center for Marketing Research at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth continue to produce some of the most consistent, rigorous and comprehensive research on social media adoption by both small and large businesses. This represents a 4% increase since 2012.

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The Changing Rules of B2B Marketing

Paul Gillin

Here is a draft of the first chapter of Social Marketing to the Business Customer by Paul Gillin and Eric Schwartzman. This chapter focuses on drawing the major distinctions between business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) markets and where social marketing has particular value to B2B companies.

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Attack of the Customers Press Release

Paul Gillin

New Book Explores Recent Epidemic Of Online Customer Assaults on Businesses. ‘Attack of the Customers’ Helps Marketers and Business Owners Manage and Prevent Reputation Threats Carried on Blogs and Social Networks. Links and tweets are appreciated, but Amazon reviews will get you undying devotion. About The Authors.

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How to Summarize Content for a Business Audience

Paul Gillin

1 AP story: The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits fell 19,000 last week to a seasonally adjusted 326,000, the fewest since January 2008. The decline shows the job market continues to strengthen. B2B Content Marketing marketing Tips Big Data Executive summary Inverted pyramid' Important Data 1.

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The Power of B2B Communities

Paul Gillin

Here are the first 1,100 words of the chapter on B2B social communities from my forthcoming book, co-authored with Eric Schwartzman, entitled Social Marketing to the Business Customer. It started in October, 2008 and had attracted more than 700 contributions 18 months later. Maskin refers to himself as “Mr.

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Attack of the Customers: The Pampers Dry Max Crisis

Paul Gillin

P&G had actually begun shipping the new product in August, 2008, more than 18 months before it was announced. The practice is called slipstreaming, and it’s common in high-volume consumer packaged goods markets that manufacture products by the millions at facilities around the world. In fact, Shah’s suspicions were correct.

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Economic Disruption: We’ve Seen This Before

Paul Gillin

Each of these five waves has been interceded by a crash in the financial markets. When the global economy was declining in 2008, the decline in world trade and industrial production was actually steeper than in the 1930s. The whole concept of evidence-based medicine is an important new development.