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The Changing Rules of B2B Marketing

Paul Gillin

This chapter focuses on drawing the major distinctions between business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) markets and where social marketing has particular value to B2B companies. Dell conceived of the community in 2007 as a way to enhance loyalty among its largest customers. Your feedback is welcome.

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What Social Media Marketers Should and Shouldn’t Do

Paul Gillin

This is free research that complements your existing market intelligence and provides real-time insight on what people are saying about your company and your market. Don’t lead with a sales pitch. Be helpful and sales will come. Speak in the language of the community. The other 10% can be self-promotional.

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IBM’s Beck: Social Business is About Enablement, Not Control

Paul Gillin

It’s about giving people at every stage in the sales cycle the incentive to adopt tools that make their jobs easier and contribute to customer satisfaction. IBM started with that simple premise when it tackled the task of convincing its sales and marketing people to adopt a new way of doing business. Photo via NigelBeck.com.

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The Other Social Network

Paul Gillin

Someone asked the Sales Best Practices group a couple of months ago “ What is YOUR Best Sales Advice — 20 words or less.&# Here are a few ways B2B companies can leverage LinkedIn for prospecting and promotion: Ask and Answer. Use Company Profiles for Prospecting. And they’re busy. It has 532 responses.

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Tribes Rule the Hyper-Social Organization

Paul Gillin

Most make little margin on new vehicle sales anymore and must take most of their profit from service. As companies cede control of the megaphone, they will have to re-examine their entire value proposition and change many of the ways they work. Similarly, sales must evolve into more of a consultation and systems integration role.

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Awareness E-Book Raises the Bar on Social Measurement

Paul Gillin

Awareness outlines five priorities that companies should define in becoming a best-in-class social marketer: Measure and Grow Social Reach. The most successful of those are reporting direct correlations between social media marketing and sales, and they have certain practices in common. Monitor Social Conversations. Practice SEO.

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Attack of the Customers Press Release

Paul Gillin

Customers are taking their complaints about companies and products to the Internet in record numbers, and a new book tells what is driving this trend and how businesses can avoid being victims of customer attacks. Recent research has shown that 70% of large companies have experienced an attack on their reputations during last two years.“Decision-makers

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