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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 ! In some ways, this book is an update of my first book, The New Influencers , which was published more than five years ago. Several of the case studies in New Influencers involved customer attacks in the days when blogs were about all people had to work with.

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Attack of the Customers Press Release

Paul Gillin

New Book Explores Recent Epidemic Of Online Customer Assaults on Businesses. ‘Attack of the CustomersHelps Marketers and Business Owners Manage and Prevent Reputation Threats Carried on Blogs and Social Networks. How to create a culture that puts customers first.

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Recent Writings: Negativity, Social Gaffes and Farewell to Case Studies

Paul Gillin

I haven’t had a chance to blog here lately because most of my writing is been on assignment for other publishers. Because a little negativity reinforces the validity of the positive comments you publish. The fact that one out of 10 customers may displeased with product can be looked at another way: 90% are happy.

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Five Lessons From the Web 2.0 Summit

Paul Gillin

Make Marketing a Service to Customers - I didn’t write down who said this, but the comment stuck with me long after the conference was over. But in the new world of tuned-out customers, the only way to get make an impression is to be helpful, entertaining or memorable. Service had little to do with it. This year’s Web 2.0

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Direct Marketing Doesn’t Have to Suck

Paul Gillin

Editor & Publisher Daily – This newsletter is little more than a curation of articles from other sources, but the fact that E&P puts it together in a compact, scannable format makes it one of my most useful daily reads. I may not buy from them, but I sure do help promote their wares. Think Like the Customer.

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Tribes Rule the Hyper-Social Organization

Paul Gillin

Given the opportunity, we seek help from others when making important decisions and willingly share our own advice in return. In the last five years, the supplier-customer relationship has begun to change fundamentally because of the Internet. That doesn’t mean publishing more promotional white papers. Rules Have Changed.

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Paving Media Cow Paths

Paul Gillin

CalTrain deserves credit for adopting an important customer communication tool, but it deserves a spanking for failing to understand the consequences of that action. I was surprised to receive a reply tweet from a representative of the bank offering to help. Dashed Expectations. That was in February. I’m still waiting.

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