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Five Often-Overlooked Reasons Senior Executives Should Use Social Media

Paul Gillin

Why would I want to be on Twitter? Their concerns are motivated by a basic misunderstanding of how people use tools like LinkedIn and Twitter. Alerting the media – Why do CEOs like Bill Gates , Richard Branson , Oprah Winfrey , Rupert Murdoch and Elon Musk waste time on Twitter? “I don’t have time to build my LinkedIn profile.

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Weinberger Wisdom

Paul Gillin

Telegraphs are a fixed medium for sending messages. People interact with the medium differently. Tags: Social Media advertising communities events innovation journalism marketing newspapers social_networks twitter davidweinberger masstlc. Media isn’t content. We are the media. We recommend knowledge to each other.

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Social CRM: Curb Your Enthusiasm

Paul Gillin

If you’re a marketer in a medium-to large-sized B2B company, you’re almost certainly using customer relationship management (CRM) software to track your customers and prospects. For example, I have 725 friends on Facebook, nearly 1,000 connections on LinkedIn, and almost 7,500 Twitter followers.

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Surveys Show ‘Social Business’ Concept Gaining Traction

Paul Gillin

Facebook was identified as the most effective tool by a comfortable margin, but Twitter, LinkedIn and video sharing are all creeping up. It should be noted that the majority of respondents to the Constant Contact survey were customers, which means they are already marketing online. That’s the largest increase in two years.

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How Twitter Amplifies a Customer Attack

Paul Gillin

Were he speaking it today, he might refer instead to Twitter. Twitter is the enigma of social networks. The hash tag (#), which was created by the Twitter community to help bring order to the service’s inherent chaos, has become one of the Internet’s most powerful organizing and amplification tools. Order From Chaos.

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How to Promote an Event with Social Media

Paul Gillin

Create a Twitter hashtag and promote it to your colleagues and registrants. Schedule Twitter promotions to go out at different times of the day, including on weekends. Ask registrants for a Twitter address and then follow them on Twitter. Limit Twitter messages to 120 characters to allow for retweeting.

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How to Calculate Social Marketing ROI

Paul Gillin

After all, the Internet is the most measurable medium ever invented. Premium services like Webtrends build in sophisticated behavioral and sentiment analysis and can track offsite activity such as a prospect’s comments on Twitter or use of a mobile application. Sidebar – Valuing Twitter Followers.

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