YOUTILITY

Why Smart Marketing Is About Help, Not Hype

The difference between helping and selling is just two letters. But those two letters are critically important to your company’s success.

You’re not competing for attention only against other, similar products. You’re competing for attention against everything. To win in this hyper-competitive environment, you must ask “How can we help?”

If you sell something, you make a customer today, but if you genuinely help someone, you create a customer for life. This is Youtility.

Includes interviews with dozens of companies practicing Youtility, and provides 6 blueprints for building Youtility in your company.

Available for pre-order soon (get up to 7 exclusive bonuses) at http://YoutilityBook.com
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Smart Marketing is about Help not Hype

Can I please get your help making my new book a smash hit when it releases next month? Please watch this… Through speaking engagements and such, I’ve sold a lot of copies of Youtility, and we’re headed toward the best-seller lists. But I could use a hand from you to make sure it does even [...]

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Contagion, Social Media, and Why Things Catch On

Jonah Berger, Marketing Professor at the Wharton School, joins the Social Pros Podcast this week to discuss his bestseller Contagious: Why Things Catch on, the science behind those viral marketing hits, and the importance of setting realistic and helpful goals with a viral marketing campaign. Read on for some of the highlights and tweetable moments, [...]

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3 Ways to Use Google to Be Better at PR

I’d like to let you in on a secret that most PR pros don’t think of: some of the easiest placement opportunities you’ll EVER land for a client (or your employer) are found using the most common online tool you can think of. Google. It’s completely under-appreciated as a PR tool. Let me share a few specific [...]

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When is Social Media Experimentation a Waste of Company Resources

In this edition of The Baer Facts, I talk with Kyle Lacy of ExactTarget about whether brands should be taking the plunge into other emerging platforms, specifically SnapChat. As an author, it scares the bejesus out of me, but it appears kids really don’t want to read. And as a parent, it spooks me, but [...]

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How to Integrate Social Media into Your Website with a Homeland Embassy Strategy

Editor’s Note: A version of this post originally appeared on Social Media Explorer. I’d like to walk you through a social media strategy concept known as the homeland-embassy approach. It’s an idea shared first by Steve Rubel, though I’m not sure he meant to take it as far and as literal as I’m going to [...]

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How You Make a Customer Smarter in 6 Seconds

I’ve been critical in the past of Vine, and brands’ often clumsy attempts to turn it into the next venue for “clever” real-time marketing. But with a new series of 10 inherently useful Vines, Lowe’s demonstrates that six seconds is plenty of time to create Youtility. “We try to provide content that has as much [...]

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How H&R Block Activated 90,000 Seasonal Tax Pros in Social Media

Scott Gulbransen, Director of Social Business Strategy at H&R Block, joins the Social Pros Podcast this week to discuss the structure of social that allowed 90,000 H&R tax professionals to mobilize in unison earlier this year, driving engagement at a local level, and dealing with federal regulations as a financial services company in social media. [...]

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The Calgary Zoo Shares its Annual Report on Instagram

When preparing its 2012 Annual Report, The Calgary Zoo traded its traditional PDF for Instagram. Proclaiming the 2012 Annual Report “The Year of the Penguins,” 55 photos and captions serve as the report pages and content. Packed full of the stats, financial figures and even a welcome note from their President & Chief Executive Officer, [...]

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Create Tools Agnostic Social Media Strategy in 8 Steps [Infographic]

Editor’s Note: A version of this article originally appeared on Social Media Explorer. Although social media continues to thread its way into the fiber of more and more organizations, my experience is that many small to mid-sized companies are still lagging behind when it comes to the development and implementation of their social media strategies. [...]

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14 Steps to Hosting a Successful Webinar

Following is a step-by-step list of how to host a memorable, interesting, and useful webinar. Of course, this list may change, depending on your business and your industry, but it provides a good place to begin thinking about how to generate good, qualified leads from content. Choose a topic and a headline that has great [...]

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