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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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8 Data Points about the Importance of Customer Experience

Paul Gillin

I was asked to prepare some background information on the importance of delivering a positive customer experience, and I thought I would share some of the research with you. How much does the market reward companies that deliver excellent customer experience? That’s gonna be a tall order.

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I’ve Been Writing A Lot Lately, Just Not Here

Paul Gillin

These publishers eschew search optimization in favor of creating content that people want to share. report reveals a startling disconnect between B2B companies and their customers that should give every marketer pause to reflect on his or her priorities. And he thinks any business can enchant its customers.

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3 Branded B2B News Services That Get It Right

Paul Gillin

While there’s nothing wrong with that, drive-by customers are hard to engage in conversation. What if you could go a step beyond the downloads and become a trusted and even indispensable information source that customers visit every day? The target audience is not Cisco’s traditional CIO customer but board room executives.

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Content Curation on Steroids

Paul Gillin

That’s because it’s an idea that addresses a problem humans have never confronted before: too much information. In the same way that museum curators choose which items from a collection to put on display, content curators select and publish information that’s of interest to a particular audience.

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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. Here are five key insights I took away. This year’s Web 2.0

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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 Customers’ Helps 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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