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My New Book, ‘Attack of the Customers,’ is now available

Paul Gillin

Eleven months later, Attack of the Customers on sale on Amazon ! Just last week a woman who claimed she had been victimized in a contract dispute with a big Canadian retailer took her cause to YouTube and Facebook. We make the case that companies have no choice but to invest in this area, though. Self-Publishing Experiment.

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Facebook Can Work for B2B Marketers, But You Gotta Know the Rules

Paul Gillin

In a survey of marketers conducted by BtoB magazine last year , Facebook was ranked last in usefulness among the top five social networks, trailing blogs, LinkedIn, YouTube and Twitter, in that order. Nevertheless, some B2B companies have mined gold out of Facebook’s audience, particularly for recruiting young college graduates.

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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. Those sales are generated by the affinity that the staff has developed with these key corporate customers. Your feedback is welcome.

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Oracle’s Updated Social Media Policy

Paul Gillin

Don’t use company resources to set-up your own blogging environment, even if you are blogging about matters related to Oracle. This applies to potential acquisitions regardless of their status–in diligence, announced but not closed, integration plans for acquired companies, etc. Don’t Misuse Oracle Resources.

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Oracle’s Social Media Policy

Paul Gillin

Don’t use company resources to set-up your own blogging environment, even if you are blogging about matters related to Oracle. This applies to potential acquisitions regardless of their status–in diligence, announced but not closed, integration plans for acquired companies, etc. Don’t Misuse Oracle Resources.

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An Intelligent Approach to Influence Measurement

Paul Gillin

This addresses the problem of lead quality, which is the biggest cause of sales waste. Awareness doesn’t extract data from social networks directly but rather works with Gnip , a company that has license agreements with most of the top social networks to distribute their content. Victory will go to the swiftest.

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The End of ‘Social Media’

Paul Gillin

Seven years, 200 million blogs, nearly 600 million Facebook members and a few billion YouTube videos later the information landscape has been completely transformed. And what’s happening in auto sales will happen in every single industry. Companies that don’t provide significant value will struggle to survive.