Paul Gillin

JANUARY 6, 2011

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. I responded that no slight was intended. Blaming the Tools.

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Paul Gillin

AUGUST 30, 2013

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.” You have to wonder why one-third of large corporations still block social network use by their employees. Attack of the Customers B2B marketing Social Media social networks'

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Paul Gillin

APRIL 10, 2013

Brill was a longtime product manager for IBM’s Social Business products, where he fought an uphill and often public battle against Microsoft. The fact that he did get away with it is one of the sub themes of Opting In , Brill’s new book about social product management. Social media is about more than business, he emphasizes.

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