Paul Gillin

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Social Marketing Hangover

Paul Gillin

There’s a period of exuberance, followed by the cold reality that the new tool won’t shorten the work week or lead to permanent weight loss. Traditional marketing is campaign-oriented: Put a message in the field and then sort through the surge of leads and responses that come in. There are many blind alleys and few big scores.

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Seven Questions to Ask About Your Website

Paul Gillin

These can be in the form of newsletter sign-ups, white paper downloads, requests for more information or invitations to view a webcast. Why would you want to miss any chance to turn an interested passerby into a lead? Every page of your website should have an invitation for visitors to become prospects. Are your pages easy to share?

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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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