Paul Gillin

OCTOBER 11, 2012

I spend a lot of time in LinkedIn groups and have learned a bit about maximizing their potential as conversation-starters. The best way to provoke discussion on LinkedIn is to ask questions. LinkedIn is the only major social network that doesn’t permit brands to interact as members. Facebook is more playful than LinkedIn.

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Paul Gillin

JUNE 18, 2013

Listen to your market and customers using tools like Twitter filters, Google Alerts and LinkedIn searches. Your principal goal should be to help people solve problems and make smarter decisions. Be helpful and sales will come. Facebook is fun, LinkedIn is business, Twitter is rapid-fire news. Taming the big five.

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Paul Gillin

APRIL 27, 2012

It’s no secret that the factors that motivate salespeople to change the way they work have to be pretty simple: Help them spend more time selling and less time scrounging for information and telling managers what they’re doing. It was about returning value and time to our sales teams for their time invested.”.

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Paul Gillin

OCTOBER 5, 2011

I may not buy from them, but I sure do help promote their wares. With 9,400 Twitter followers, 1,200 LinkedIn connections and regular columns in BtoB magazine and The CMO Site , I can extend their reach at very little cost to them. With the exception of Gizmo, all the companies have something to sell. And I do, nearly every day.

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Paul Gillin

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

By enabling customers to freely exchange experiences, CareOne helps shatter suspicions that dissuade people in debt from seeking professional help. CareOne discovered that customers who engaged online were far more likely to seek professional help than cold-called candidates. “It’s

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Paul Gillin

JUNE 29, 2011

Other new stuff that they’re doing (and this comes directly from the press release): The industry’s first online design hub – the element14 knode – designed to help engineers accelerate design and development and bring products to market faster than ever before.

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Paul Gillin

JULY 15, 2011

Corporate case studies used to have a purpose in the days when customers couldn’t find each other, but today all it takes is a few searches or LinkedIn queries to identify experienced buyers. It’s not the concept of the case study I don’t like; it’s the format.

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