Paul Gillin

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Waiving Speaking Fee for Book Buyers

Paul Gillin

My book Social Marketing to the Business Customer with co-author Eric Schwartzman was released last month and is now available through Amazon , Barnes & Noble , Borders and other booksellers. Everyone seems to be interested in the concept of using social media to reach a focused, select group of individuals.

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Attack of the Customers Press Release

Paul Gillin

Decision-makers believe that social media has made managing crises more difficult and more expensive,” Gillin said. “We A popular speaker and writer, he has addressed more than 150 conferences and groups and published more than 200 articles about social media marketing since 2008.

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Surveys Show ‘Social Business’ Concept Gaining Traction

Paul Gillin

A quartet of new research reports suggested that small and midsize businesses (SMB) are rapidly waking up to the potential of social media and cloud-based infrastructure to create new operational efficiencies and better engage customers – and that they may also be leading the US out of recession.

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Social Marketing Wisdom from the Insurance Industry – Really

Paul Gillin

I was privileged to be on a panel with some outstanding social media practitioners from the insurance industry at the 2011 Social Media Conference for Financial Services put on by LOMA LIMRA this morning. His advice to social media marketers: “Think big. “It was a huge win for them. “.

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IBM Expands Social Business Services

Paul Gillin

The term “social business” has been gaining traction in the last year. Mentions of the term on the Internet grew from two million in 2010 to about 20 million in 2011, according to an informal Google search. “It’s not just about demand generation but incorporating social it into all aspects of your business.”

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Social Marketing Hangover

Paul Gillin

I was recently quoted on Internetnews.com making the following prediction: “Look for marketing’s love affair with social media to give way in 2011 to the sobering reality that a Facebook fan page and Twitter account don’t solve problems of poor products or positioning. I responded that no slight was intended.

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The End of ‘Social Media’

Paul Gillin

I’ll resist that urge, though, and instead present a plea: Let’s make 2011 the year we stop talking about “social media.”. It’s not that social media is no longer important. On the contrary, today there’s almost no media today that isn’t social.