Paul Gillin

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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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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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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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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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Content Curation on Steroids

Paul Gillin

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. The company is attacking the labor problem by making curators more productive rather than trying to replace them.

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Attack of the Customers: The Pampers Dry Max Crisis

Paul Gillin

This an excerpt from the opening chapter of Attack of the Customers: Why Critics Assault Brands Online and What You Can Do About It by Paul Gillin and Greg Gianforte. It’s due to be published this fall. Shah believed P&G had substituted a cheaper Cruisers for its existing product and not told anyone about it. “I