Paul Gillin

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Seven Questions to Ask About Your Website

Paul Gillin

These can be in the form of newsletter sign-ups, white paper downloads, requests for more information or invitations to view a webcast. This is particularly important for b-to-b companies, which establish long-term relationships with their customers. Tags: B-to-B marketing website. Are your pages easy to share?

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Social CRM: Curb Your Enthusiasm

Paul Gillin

CRM is a well-established discipline that presumes that the more information we can capture about a customer’s interactions with our company, the better we can deliver products and services that the person wants to buy. Tags: B-to-B Social Media influence socialnetworks CRM socialcrm socialmap. But it’s not 2.0

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Oracle’s Social Media Policy

Paul Gillin

The Oracle Code of Ethics and Business Conduct and Oracle’s corporate policies – including the Acceptable Use Policy, Information Protection Policy, and Copyright Compliance Policy – apply to your online conduct (blogging or other online activities) just as much as they apply to your offline behavior. Protect Confidential Information.

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B2B Blogging Excellence

Paul Gillin

His advice to prospective b-to-b bloggers: “Be prepared to stick with it for a while; it takes a couple of years to build up your presence. Blogging isn’t just pushing out information, it’s responding to the interests of your market.”. Those stories are rich in the keywords that customers use.”. Listening is a key skill.

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Social Marketing Hangover

Paul Gillin

The souring of marketer attitudes toward social media first became evident to me last spring when I worked on a survey for B-to-B magazine that found that nearly half of 400 marketers surveyed were disappointed with the results they were getting from Twitter. Blaming the Tools. It takes patience to get there. Lack of understanding.

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Here’s What 25 B2B Marketers Think Are the Key Trends in 2016

Paul Gillin

The authors identified three powerful trends driving B2B marketing right now: –Changing buyer expectations fueled by the availability of rich information and ease of access and purchase; –Pressure to demonstrate ROI as marketers learn to do more with less; and.

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

Paul Gillin

It’s no secret that the factors that motivate salespeople to change the way they work have to be pretty simple: Help them spend more time selling and less time scrounging for information and telling managers what they’re doing. The tools made it easy to find information and expertise by consulting friends.

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