Remove impression work

Paul Gillin

article thumbnail

Facebook Can Work for B2B Marketers, But You Gotta Know the Rules

Paul Gillin

In my work with B2B organizations, the question of how to use Facebook is invariably front and center. Contests and giveaways work well on Facebook. Here’s how it works. As a result, most of the wall comments come from people who want to work for UPS. The style that works best is relaxed, informal and a little edgy.

article thumbnail

CareOne Cashes In On Community

Paul Gillin

It’s real customers telling each other that the program works,” Kelly said. One of the more impressive aspects of the whole effort is the company’s focus on ROI metrics. CareOne discovered that customers who engaged online were far more likely to seek professional help than cold-called candidates. “It’s

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Attack of the Customers: The Pampers Dry Max Crisis

Paul Gillin

The innovation was so impressive that former president Bill Clinton praised the diaper for reducing landfill waste. However, Rosana Shah of Baton Rouge, LA was not impressed. A spokesman for the CPSC said the agency works with hundreds of companies on various standards committees and the charges of collusion are baseless.

article thumbnail

Microsoft Down, But Hardly Out

Paul Gillin

I was always impressed by the competitiveness of the Microsoft culture and wondered whether Microsoft it would resist the disease that killed companies like Digital Equipment, Wang Laboratories and Compaq, and that nearly killed IBM and Novell. The person at the bottom isn’t likely to be around very long.

article thumbnail

Remembering Tom

Paul Gillin

He was a designer, and he made an immediate impression. He worked at IDG for more than 25 years, eventually becoming online director of the Computerworld.com website. You can see some of his work here. I’ve worked with many designers over the years, but never one who took such an interest in the subject matter of his work.

Design 50
article thumbnail

Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter in Plain English

Paul Gillin

version of the classic impression, but social network interactions are potentially much more important because members can comment upon, endorse and share other members’ activities with their own networks. Contests, polls and games work particularly well there. Marketers can think of these communications as a Web 2.0

Twitter 50
article thumbnail

Weinberger Wisdom

Paul Gillin

They buy a nice place to hang towels to impress their relatives. This also works in marketing, BTW. This acceptance of our own weaknesses will change the way organizations operate. People don’t buy drills or holes. Abstract to the level of basic human needs in order to understand behavior.

Web 2.0 50