Paul Gillin

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Facebook Can Work for B2B Marketers, But You Gotta Know the Rules

Paul Gillin

In my work with B2B organizations, the question of how to use Facebook is invariably front and center. This Is despite the fact that numerous surveys have shown that Facebook is one of the least effective social networks for B2B marketing. Storage maker EMC makes particularly good use of Facebook’s “Welcome&# page.

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An Intelligent Approach to Influence Measurement

Paul Gillin

The suite can also dig into publicly available profile information to add filters by location, profession or any other data that is publicly available on Facebook or Twitter. Awareness goes a step further by combining public profile data with conversation topics to create prospect databases.

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How to Calculate Social Marketing ROI

Paul Gillin

Many excellent solutions are now available on a software-as-a-service basis today, including Salesforce.com , RightNow Technologies and NetSuite. This same approach may also be applied to finding the value of Facebook fans, LinkedIn connections, SlideShare followers and the like. A good CRM system is essential. End sidebar.

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