Paul Gillin

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My New Book, ‘Attack of the Customers,’ is now available

Paul Gillin

Now I’d like to ask for your support by liking the book on the Amazon page and registering your like on the book Facebook page. Just last week a woman who claimed she had been victimized in a contract dispute with a big Canadian retailer took her cause to YouTube and Facebook. Farming Out Customer Care.

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Two B2B Social Marketing Initiatives Worth Checking

Paul Gillin

Element14 is trying to position itself as “Facebook for engineers,&# and they’re doing a heckuva job. The site is organized in “chapters&# by platform – Facebook, LinkedIn, Ratings and Reviews, QR codes and the like – and presents really useful tutorials in a step-by-step format, many including video.

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Attack of the Customers: The Pampers Dry Max Crisis

Paul Gillin

So staffers were understandably concerned when a Facebook group appeared in late 2009 entitled “ Pampers bring back the OLD CRUISERS/SWADDLERS.” The group was launched by Shah after her visits to the Pampers Facebook page and Pampers website convinced her that “many parents were also experiencing confusion.”

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Recent Writings: Negativity, Social Gaffes and Farewell to Case Studies

Paul Gillin

Because a little negativity reinforces the validity of the positive comments you publish. After he posted the e-mail exchange online, some USA Today reporters dug up the fact that Facebook was behind the whisper campaign. The CMO Site likes to stir things up, so my posts there tend to be on the controversial side.

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Social CRM: Curb Your Enthusiasm

Paul Gillin

For example, I have 725 friends on Facebook, nearly 1,000 connections on LinkedIn, and almost 7,500 Twitter followers. I do believe that some of the core concepts of social CRM are valid. What’s more, I question how much social interactions have to do with decision-making in many cases.

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The Power of B2B Communities

Paul Gillin

Those early outposts looked little like the Facebooks and LinkedIns of today, though. Activities are a validation point. Internet newsgroups, CompuServe, The Well and other early communities had membership in the hundreds of thousands a decade before anyone had heard of a web browser.

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How to Promote an Event with Social Media

Paul Gillin

Regardless of the size of the event, set up a Facebook page or create a dedicated event sub-page under your Facebook page. The average Facebook member has 130 Facebook friends. Use a unique tracking code with each promotion and make sure to use a different code for Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and e-mail.