Paul Gillin

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3 Branded B2B News Services That Get It Right

Paul Gillin

Most content marketing is currently delivered piecemeal in the form of white papers, e-books, webcasts and the like. Its popularity has enabled Adobe to invest in a growing amount of original content, and even sell some advertising space to cover costs. Cisco Connected Futures. Connected Futures is a little-known gem.

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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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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. The webcast is probably the smarter incentive to offer.

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