Paul Gillin

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Social CRM: Curb Your Enthusiasm

Paul Gillin

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. Tags: B-to-B Social Media influence socialnetworks CRM socialcrm socialmap. But it’s not 2.0

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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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Content Curation on Steroids

Paul Gillin

CIThread can also tie in to Web analytics engines to fold audience behavior into its decision-making. Tags: innovation cithread curation. 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.

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15 Tips for Getting the Most From LinkedIn Groups

Paul Gillin

When I see hash tags in a headline, it tells me one thing: This person was too lazy to customize the message for me. It generates longer links, but they’re compatible with Google Analytics. The more you make your post a personal message from you, rather than a rehash of somebody else’s message, the more compelling it is.

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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. End sidebar.

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