Paul Gillin

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Social CRM: Curb Your Enthusiasm

Paul Gillin

It seems only natural that online social interactions should be part of this profile. CRM is hard to do well because A) everyone who interacts with the customer must be committed to documenting every touch point; and B) the company must have the analytical chops to know what to do with the data it collects.

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Organizing the Chaos of Social CRM

Paul Gillin

The market is too fragmented and no vendor pulls together all the necessary features, which include platforms, monitoring tools, social analytics and CRM. Any good CRM system today should incorporate social activity into profiles. More importantly, Marketing Director Houston Neal argues that social CRM actually doesn’t exist.

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15 Tips for Getting the Most From LinkedIn Groups

Paul Gillin

Fill Out Your Profile. It’s disappointing when their click takes them to a skeletal profile page with no photo. It generates longer links, but they’re compatible with Google Analytics. Remember that you started the conversation. That means you own it. URL shortening services like Bit.ly prior to posting them.

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

Paul Gillin

Cognos and SPSS analytics were applied to better qualify opportunities and improve forecasting. All members of the team can now apply social tools like tagging and profiling to identify and recommend experts who can help solve customer problems and closed deals.

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Live Blog: Lotusphere 2012 Opening Session

Paul Gillin

It’s like Moneyball: analytics + baseball = new game.” We need deep analytics around everything in the organization. Noting that 30% of customers abandon Web pages within five seconds, he highlights the close-to-real-time analytics built on top of a scalable social network. “This is rethinking.

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David Ferrucci on Building the World’s Smartest Computer

Paul Gillin

Our analytics told us we had about a 74% chance of winning. You can imaging information comine from patient data, symptoms, office visits, and background databases, computing these profiles, providing these profiles to the medical teams and helping them to see how the evidence supports the hypothesis.