Paul Gillin

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Seven Questions to Ask About Your Website

Paul Gillin

Messages are often focused on selling a solution rather than solving a problem, but people don’t care about your product; they care about what’s troubling them right now. Today it’s cheap and easy to point a camera at a product manager or engineer and ask the person to explain a product. Is it easy to join your list?

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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

Your personal blogs that contain postings about Oracle’s business, products, employees, customers, partners, or competitors. Your postings about Oracle’s business, products, employees, customers, partners, or competitors on external blogs, wikis, discussion forums, micro-blogs . Twitter, social networking sites).

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Two B2B Social Marketing Initiatives Worth Checking

Paul Gillin

I wrote in B-to-B magazine early this year about a Make magazine-like video series they started last fall that appeals to engineers’ passion for tinkering as well as for fun. RoadTests – Allowing members to actually try out the latest new products for free and share their reviews with other engineers.

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Social Marketing Hangover

Paul Gillin

I was recently quoted on Internetnews.com making the following prediction: “Look for marketing’s love affair with social media to give way in 2011 to the sobering reality that a Facebook fan page and Twitter account don’t solve problems of poor products or positioning. Blaming the Tools.

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

Paul Gillin

It’s time for B2B marketers to let go of their obsession with perfect production values and get on with just putting good content out there for customers and prospects.” – Elizabeth Williams (l.). If your marketing is great but your product is bad, that, ultimately, means your marketing is bad, too.” – Carla Johnson.

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

Paul Gillin

So when IBM began to introduce the concept of “social selling,” it chose a test base of a few hundred salespeople and their managers to build a set of integrated systems that improved productivity and reduced administrative overhead. It was about returning value and time to our sales teams for their time invested.”.

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