Paul Gillin

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3 Branded B2B News Services That Get It Right

Paul Gillin

Most content marketing is currently delivered piecemeal in the form of white papers, e-books, webcasts and the like. Cisco does a lot of things well with social media, from its expansive blog network to its innovative newsroom, The Network. Cisco Connected Futures. Connected Futures is a little-known gem.

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Live Blog: 3M Unites Global Workforce With Technology

Paul Gillin

The group held live live webcasts and chats to explain the event and succeeded in getting 45 prototypes from across the U.S. The decision to use social media to communicate the renovation plans to employees was controversial at first because news has always been top-down.” Not all problems lend themselves to brief answers, though.

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Social Marketing Hangover

Paul Gillin

I was recently quoted on Internetnews.com making the following prediction: “Look for marketing’s love affair with social media to give way in 2011 to the sobering reality that a Facebook fan page and Twitter account don’t solve problems of poor products or positioning. I responded that no slight was intended. Blaming the Tools.

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Seven Questions to Ask About Your Website

Paul Gillin

If you’re not using all the media you can, you’re under-serving your audience. These can be in the form of newsletter sign-ups, white paper downloads, requests for more information or invitations to view a webcast. Many business websites are heavy on text, which may have been all that was available when the site was built.

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How to Calculate Social Marketing ROI

Paul Gillin

This chapter focuses on how to calculate ROI of social media and Internet marketing programs in general. ROI calculations don’t work well for social media and they don’t work well for marketing in general,” says Benjamin Ellis, a UK-based serial entrepreneur who now specializes in social marketing. With webcast.

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