Paul Gillin

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

Paul Gillin

In a survey of marketers conducted by BtoB magazine last year , Facebook was ranked last in usefulness among the top five social networks, trailing blogs, LinkedIn, YouTube and Twitter, in that order. LinkedIn is all about efficiency, but Facebook is about generating discussion, even if it’s around trivial things. million likes*.

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An Intelligent Approach to Influence Measurement

Paul Gillin

Integration with Salesforce.com is built into the first product and most of the leading platforms will be added over time, according to Mike Lewis, VP of marketing at Awareness. About the only major source Gnip doesn’t have is LinkedIn, which keeps its profile information close to the vest.

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How to Calculate Social Marketing ROI

Paul Gillin

Many excellent solutions are now available on a software-as-a-service basis today, including Salesforce.com , RightNow Technologies and NetSuite. This same approach may also be applied to finding the value of Facebook fans, LinkedIn connections, SlideShare followers and the like. A good CRM system is essential. End sidebar.

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