Paul Gillin

APRIL 18, 2012

I prepared summaries for my upcoming Search & Social Double Whammy seminar on May 2 in Burlington, MA describing the “big three” social networks: Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. Facebook & LinkedIn. Both are based upon a foundation of personal profiles and “friends,” which LinkedIn calls “connections.”

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Paul Gillin

JUNE 18, 2013

Listen to your market and customers using tools like Twitter filters, Google Alerts and LinkedIn searches. Facebook is fun, LinkedIn is business, Twitter is rapid-fire news. created a constellation of technical blogs written primarily by its engineers, with each blog title optimized for a desired keyword set.

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Paul Gillin

MARCH 24, 2011

This is a great chance to take a snapshot of best practices in the field, and I was struck by this year’s entries in the corporate blog category. It’s clear to me that the best B2B companies are taking their blogging to the next level. A monthly editorial meeting was scheduled to review blog topics and assign writers.

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Paul Gillin

JUNE 24, 2010

whose blog-driven search strategy yielded a six-fold increase in leads in just one quarter, and Clickable , whose Gurus drove a 400% one-year growth in billings. In the example below, lead activity appears to correlate positively with traffic to a company blog. Let’s look at one more example in which we use a blog for lead generation.

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