Paul Gillin

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Marketo Tells How to Use Social Media for Lead Generation

Paul Gillin

I often cite marketing automation vendor Marketo as a shining example of a company that gives away great information as a way to promote its business. Marketo recently contacted several B2B social media marketing pros to get their tips on how to generate leads with social platforms. They report encouraging results.

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A Chance for CIOs to Lead in Social Business

Paul Gillin

IT leaders are experts at measurement, and they also have cross-functional visibility that makes them the most logical candidates to integrate islands of automation. I suggest in my presentation that there are several initiatives IT could lead that would give them a critical role in social business.

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Direct Marketing Doesn’t Have to Suck

Paul Gillin

In the weeks leading up to the Direct Marketing Association annual conference in Boston this week, exhibitors were out strutting their best stuff. The other has an automated signature device that does much same thing. Last week I got two letters in the mail that appeared to be personally addressed to me in a feminine hand (right).

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Five Facebook Tips for Small Businesses

Paul Gillin

If you lead with your wall, you’re missing an opportunity. Fitness has a variety of other offers on its Facebook presence, but it leads with the simplest one. Each company matches its offer to its goal, whether it’s a free trial, information or downloadable assets like ringtones. Tip #2: Make your offer shareable.

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An Intelligent Approach to Influence Measurement

Paul Gillin

The Social Marketing Automation suite enables customers to identify patterns in public online conversations, extract profile information and create what amounts to custom Klout scores. This information can be imported into CRM and marketing automation packages, easing what is usually a laborious manual process.

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How Will Technology Affect Employment?

Paul Gillin

Probably, because it can lead to policies that are intended to preserve these positions instead of moving toward the jobs that are growing. Autor : Look at an example of something that’s been automated out of value: Horses used to be our main form of locomotion but now they’re hardly needed. Should we be worried about that?