Paul Gillin

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The Changing Rules of B2B Marketing

Paul Gillin

The site is free of advertising and the member list may never be used for promotions. Dell TechCenter and other initiatives like it are microcosms of the changes that are sweeping across corporate America as a consequence of the rapid growth of social media tools like blogs, communities and user-generated multimedia.

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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. Blaming the Tools.

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Here’s What 25 B2B Marketers Think Are the Key Trends in 2016

Paul Gillin

The average click through rate is 0.1%, banners don’t work anymore and people are much more likely to trust peer to peer recommendations than traditional advertising.” – Joe Fields. “No .” – Cheryl Burgess. No longer will marketers schedule an email campaign for Wednesday morning at 10 AM.

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How to Calculate Social Marketing ROI

Paul Gillin

This chapter focuses on how to calculate ROI of social media and Internet marketing programs in general. Much of the money that B2B marketers have poured into direct mail campaigns, trade show exhibitions and trade print advertising for the last 50 years has questionable returns. In this chapter, we’ll suggest some approaches.

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