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Five Facebook Tips for Small Businesses

Paul Gillin

But with Facebook becoming the place you just have to be for businesses of all sizes, a little marketing know-how comes in handy. When we look at what platforms our small business customers are using for social media marketing, 94% of them are on Facebook,” Schmulen said. It’s easier to test results that way, too.

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

Paul Gillin

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. The tools made it easy to find information and expertise by consulting friends.

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Content Curation on Steroids

Paul Gillin

Connections to popular content management systems make it possible to automatically publish content to a website and even syndicate it to Twitter and Facebook without leaving the CIThread dashboard. CIThread can also tie in to Web analytics engines to fold audience behavior into its decision-making.

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Live Blog: Lotusphere 2012 Opening Session

Paul Gillin

.” This is not new tools, it’s a complete reinvention of systems that form the core of how a business operates. It’s like Moneyball: analytics + baseball = new game.” ” When you get serious about transformation, you stop thinking about tools and start thinking about platforms.

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How to Calculate Social Marketing ROI

Paul Gillin

It’s easy to cast aside analytical tasks when everyone is focused on generating revenue. However, you don’t necessarily have to test only one variable at a time. With split testing, you can try two different experiments, each targeting a different segment of your customer base. They look like this: [link].

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