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Five Facebook Tips for Small Businesses

Paul Gillin

Vindale Research isn’t in the food business, though; it wants to recruit people who are interested in getting paid to take surveys. Facebook’s built-in analytics give you a pretty good idea of what’s sparking conversation on your page. I couldn’t have said it better. Tip #5: Measure.

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How to Summarize Content for a Business Audience

Paul Gillin

Highlights of IBM Analytics Research Report from Paul Gillin. ” A survey of more than 1,100 business and IT professionals in 95 countries – nearly half of which are midmarket businesses – also suggests that data quality is an important variable in the effective use of big data analytics.

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IDC Sees Massive Disruption From Industry’s Platform Shift

Paul Gillin

The global IT industry is in the middle of an epic platform shift and the rules for survival in a market built on mobility, big data analytics, social business and cloud computing will be very different than those that applied to the previous client/server generation. Will Microsoft be a player in mobile platforms?

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How to Read and Summarize a 20-Page Research Report in 20 Minutes

Paul Gillin

We’ll use the big data analytics study from IBM that’s embedded below as an example. This indicates a majority of the people surveyed agree on something. The key is to let the authors of the document do most of the work. Look in particular for percentages of 50 or more.

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15 Tips for Getting the Most From LinkedIn Groups

Paul Gillin

Try mixing it up; instead of posting a question, occasionally formulate the topic as a survey. It generates longer links, but they’re compatible with Google Analytics. Polls are a basic tool you can use to solicit feedback. You can specify up to five answer choices and choose how long the poll runs. Use Trackable Links.

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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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How to Calculate Social Marketing ROI

Paul Gillin

It’s easy to cast aside analytical tasks when everyone is focused on generating revenue. Web analytics today deliver unprecedented insight about online interactions. The basic features of the free Google Analytics service match the capabilities of products that cost thousands of dollars just a few years ago. Measurement.

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