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What Social Media Marketers Should and Shouldn’t Do

Paul Gillin

Don’t lead with a sales pitch. Indium’s sales leads grew 600% in the year after the program was launched. CME Group (the former Chicago Mercantile Exchange) has amassed the largest Twitter following of any B2B company of which I’m aware. Be helpful and sales will come. Taming the big five.

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Recent Posts: Expanding Social Authority and Enlivening Boring Predictions

Paul Gillin

Indium has created a creative and successful inbound marketing campaign that connects engineers to customers to solve problems in exchange for contact information. It’s paying off so well that the company can afford to increase its focus on lead quality because it has more than enough leads in the hopper.

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The Power of B2B Communities

Paul Gillin

They are flexible gathering halls that can fill a wide variety of purposes ranging from product development to lead generation. Lead Generator,&# indicating that generosity is part of his business strategy. Top coders win money and also visibility that leads to jobs and lucrative contracts. Maskin refers to himself as “Mr.

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The Appeal of B2B Social Networks

Paul Gillin

They are flexible gathering halls that can fill a wide variety of purposes ranging from product development to lead generation. When people create friend relationships, they exchange information that is not visible to others and they form persistent connections based upon trust. Communities are the convention centers of social media.

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Live Blog: Lotusphere 2012 Opening Session

Paul Gillin

We use the power of collaboration to lead transformation to high-quality, cost-effective health care.” GAD is a leading provider of secure processing capabilities to 430 banks in Germany. ” “Kids are the new normal. They think nothing about connecting with people and sharing actionable information.

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How Twitter Amplifies a Customer Attack

Paul Gillin

People with large Twitter followings can quickly magnify a complaint with a single retweet, and the media has learned to use Twitter both as an amplifier and a leading indicator of developing news. Within a few seconds of news breaking anywhere, it’s on Twitter.

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