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The Changing Rules of B2B Marketing

Paul Gillin

Hansen and colleagues Jeff Sullivan, Kong Yang and Dennis Smith are celebrities of sorts in the community of enterprise customers, who frequently seek them out for meetings at trade shows and during visits to the company’s executive briefing center. Yet B2B applications of social media get remarkably little attention.

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The Power of B2B Communities

Paul Gillin

Those early outposts looked little like the Facebooks and LinkedIns of today, though. Online friends frequently become real ones when they arrange meet ups at trade shows and events. Prior to the introduction of personal profiles, it was difficult for participants in online networks to build visibility.

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The Appeal of B2B Social Networks

Paul Gillin

Those early online outposts looked little like the Facebooks and LinkedIns of today, though. Online friends in B2B communities frequently arrange meet ups at trade shows and events. Tags: B2B Facebook communities marketing social_media socialnetworks. Maskin refers to himself as “Mr.

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How to Calculate Social Marketing ROI

Paul Gillin

Much of the money that B2B marketers have poured into direct mail campaigns, trade show exhibitions and trade print advertising for the last 50 years has questionable returns. This same approach may also be applied to finding the value of Facebook fans, LinkedIn connections, SlideShare followers and the like. End sidebar.

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