Paul Gillin

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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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This Brand Ambassador Program Goes Against the Grain

Paul Gillin

I’m sure the folks at Social Rebate researched their concept exhaustively. The only compensation brand advocates receive is free samples and perhaps an advance look at a new product. To be fair, I may have to make a purchase in order to do so. For most people, Dave says, that’s payment enough. Not really.

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How B2B and B2C Marketing Are Different

Paul Gillin

Download a sample chapter. Research by marketing Sherpa and TechWeb found that 41% of technology buying decisions involved 15 or more people in the process. Post your review on Amazon or tell us what you think on our Facebook page. The fact is that much of what works in consumer markets would fail in B2B interactions.

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Transforming P&G

Paul Gillin

Organized in just seven weeks and spearheaded by John Battelle’s Federated Media Group, Signal P&G brought top executives from Google, Facebook, Yahoo, AOL, Microsoft, Coca-Cola and many other digital and consumer brands to talk about the future of marketing. About 300 P&Gers crowded the John G.