Paul Gillin

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

A recent survey of more than 2,000 small businesses by e-mail marketing provider Constant Contact found that 81% say they now use social media for marketing, up from 73% in the spring. It should be noted that the majority of respondents to the Constant Contact survey were customers, which means they are already marketing online.

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Paul Gillin

MAY 15, 2012

I’m presenting a session at the CIO Solutions Gallery at the Fisher College of Business at Ohio State University tomorrow on the topic of “Measuring Social ROI: The CIO’s Role.” I created the presentation below largely for my talk tomorrow and wanted to share it.

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Paul Gillin

AUGUST 1, 2013

Inverted pyramid dictates that information is presented in order of declining importance. You don’t hear much about inverted pyramid anymore because length isn’t an issue online, but it’s a very reader-friendly way to present information to time-pressed people. Quotes shouldn’t be random or perfunctory.

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Paul Gillin

JUNE 26, 2014

Gallup is a first-class research organization and its methodology was no doubt rock solid, but even Gallup admits that “question wording and practical difficulties in conducting surveys can introduce error and bias.” This distinction is important, and here’s where the report presents a bit of a contradiction.

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Paul Gillin

AUGUST 4, 2011

This Is despite the fact that numerous surveys have shown that Facebook is one of the least effective social networks for B2B marketing. 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.

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Paul Gillin

JUNE 29, 2011

The site is organized in “chapters&# by platform – Facebook, LinkedIn, Ratings and Reviews, QR codes and the like – and presents really useful tutorials in a step-by-step format, many including video. There are more than 70 chapters, all of which can be downloaded and printed.

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Paul Gillin

JANUARY 6, 2011

Stories of social media failures will become more frequent as practitioners realize that customer conversations are time-consuming to maintain and that peer conversations present as many problems as they do opportunities.”. Blaming the Tools.

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