Paul Gillin

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What Social Media Marketers Should and Shouldn’t Do

Paul Gillin

Listen to your market and customers using tools like Twitter filters, Google Alerts and LinkedIn searches. Don’t lead with a sales pitch. Facebook is fun, LinkedIn is business, Twitter is rapid-fire news. Indium’s sales leads grew 600% in the year after the program was launched. Taming the big five.

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How to Calculate Social Marketing ROI

Paul Gillin

whose blog-driven search strategy yielded a six-fold increase in leads in just one quarter, and Clickable , whose Gurus drove a 400% one-year growth in billings. ROI analysis enforces rigor that leads to better decisions. In the example below, lead activity appears to correlate positively with traffic to a company blog.

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