Paul Gillin

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Attack of the Customers Press Release

Paul Gillin

I’ve read thousands of press releases over the years but don’t believe I ever wrote one until now. Brands have been piling into Facebook expecting to reap a bounty of positive PR, but they forget that these channels can be used to tear down as well as to build.”. It was more difficult than I expected! Capacity to Destroy.

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Facebook Tips for Midsize Businesses

Paul Gillin

With Facebook presenting a tempting target of 800 million potential customers, small businesses are flocking to social network as a fast and easy way to generate business. I talked to Brody about tips for SMBs that want to optimize their Facebook presence. Facebook pages and apps offer easy ways to collect e-mail addresses.

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Not Dead Yet: Blogging’s Popularity Surges Among F500

Paul Gillin

There’s no fluff in the press release, so I’ll just excerpt it word for word. ” In the past year, the Fortune 500 have increased their adoption of blogging by 6%, their use of Twitter for corporate communications by 4% and their use of Facebook pages by 4%. This represents a 4% increase since 2012. •

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The Most Fun Class Ever

Paul Gillin

Jason Kyle (16-year career with the Browns, 49ers, Panthers and Saints, runs a successful gourmet coffee chain in Scottsdale (check out the Press Coffee Roasters Facebook page ; it’s great). Leonard Stephens (Seahawks and Redskins) also has an athletic development company focused mainly on kids.

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Constant Contact Colocates with Small Business Customers

Paul Gillin

I often use Constant Contact’s Twitter and Facebook profiles as models for other B2B companies to follow. This press release has more. About 90% of the content the company posts in social networks is intended to help customers succeed in small business marketing. That’s a physical space within the company’s Waltham, Mass.

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Two B2B Social Marketing Initiatives Worth Checking

Paul Gillin

Other new stuff that they’re doing (and this comes directly from the press release): The industry’s first online design hub – the element14 knode – designed to help engineers accelerate design and development and bring products to market faster than ever before. This is a commerce play, incidentally.

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Five Lessons From the Web 2.0 Summit

Paul Gillin

Summit in San Francisco and hear from some of the business leaders of the new Internet, including the CEOs of Google, Facebook, Yahoo! The Facebook founder acknowledged that great power carries great responsibility and pledged to be more responsive to the privacy concerns of members. Check out the wall posts on Facebook.

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