Paul Gillin

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Social Marketing Hangover

Paul Gillin

I was recently quoted on Internetnews.com making the following prediction: “Look for marketing’s love affair with social media to give way in 2011 to the sobering reality that a Facebook fan page and Twitter account don’t solve problems of poor products or positioning. Blaming the Tools. Disillusionment is starting to set in.

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8 Data Points about the Importance of Customer Experience

Paul Gillin

How much does the market reward companies that deliver excellent customer experience? Gartner estimated last year that by 2014 “ failure to respond via social channels can lead to up to a 15% increase in churn rate for existing customers.” Attack of the Customers B2B marketing Social Media social networks'

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Book Review: Tales From a Veteran Blogger

Paul Gillin

Brill’s engaging and readable book is aimed at product managers, those corporate jacks of all trades who fret about everything from market research to customer support. The guidelines…signaled to employees, clients and the market that IBM would stand behind its [people],” he writes.

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