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Social Marketing Wisdom from the Insurance Industry – Really

Paul Gillin

Financial services firms – and insurance companies in general – are often seen as boring, but what these companies are doing within the confines of a heavily regulated business is anything but that. I actually think insurance is a fascinating business. Farmers Insurance for example, hasn’t accumulated 2.3

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Know Thy Customer

Paul Gillin

Having spent the past 15 years getting their transaction systems in place, businesses will now turn their attention to making sense of the massive amounts of data they are collecting. Business analysts will become the new rock stars of the organization. Analytics is the business reengineering of the mid-90s.

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How to Calculate Social Marketing ROI

Paul Gillin

This is a draft of chapter 10 of Social Marketing to the Business Customer by Paul Gillin and Eric Schwartzman. On the one hand, we believe that businesses should make decisions based on sound reasoning rather than vague promises or impulse. The reality is that businesses make decisions without applying hard ROI criteria all the time.

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