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How to Get Salespeople Aboard the Social Media Train

Paul Gillin

Outside of prospecting with LinkedIn, few sales pros are willing to make the investment of time to learn and use tools that promise a payoff months or years down the road. Information is competitive advantage in sales. Sales pros are driven by quotas, which are measured in monthly increments. They’re short-term thinkers.

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What Social Media Marketers Should and Shouldn’t Do

Paul Gillin

Listen to your market and customers using tools like Twitter filters, Google Alerts and LinkedIn searches. Don’t lead with a sales pitch. Be helpful and sales will come. Facebook is fun, LinkedIn is business, Twitter is rapid-fire news. Indium’s sales leads grew 600% in the year after the program was launched.

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The Changing Rules of B2B Marketing

Paul Gillin

Their celebrity is paid off handsomely for Dell: Hanson won’t provide specifics, but Dell has estimated that the Tech Center is indirectly responsible for many millions of dollars in sales each year. Those sales are generated by the affinity that the staff has developed with these key corporate customers.

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Social CRM: Curb Your Enthusiasm

Paul Gillin

Strategy changes, turnover, layoffs and the like make the first step difficult enough, and we all know how analytically challenged sales managers can be. For example, I have 725 friends on Facebook, nearly 1,000 connections on LinkedIn, and almost 7,500 Twitter followers.

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15 Tips for Getting the Most From LinkedIn Groups

Paul Gillin

Don’t Copy From Twitter. The language we use on Twitter doesn’t fit well in the more generous confines of a LinkedIn or Facebook post. The Sales Best Practices group on LinkedIn has a different membership than the Construction Professionals group. Here are a couple from the Sales Best Practices group: Eat that Frog!

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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. It uses apps for Twitter, YouTube, Flickr and Foursquare to pull its content from other social networks into Facebook.

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Attack of the Customers Press Release

Paul Gillin

At the time of its sale to Oracle in 2011, it had more than 2,000 large customers, 1,100 employees and $225 million in annual revenue. Twitter: @pgillin. Greg Gianforte has started five successful software companies. He founded RightNow Technologies in 1997 with a mission to rid the world of bad experiences. 508-656-0734.

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