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

About Eric Schwartzman

Eric Schwartzman is CEO of Comply Socially, a online social media training provider, and bestselling coauthor of Social Marketing to the Business Customer.

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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Is Your Social Media Policy Against the Law?

Social media policies can be unlawful. In 1935, Congress enacted the National Labor Relations Act to protect the rights of employees, encourage collective bargaining and curtail dangerous workplace policies.  Today, when an employee in the US believes they have been wrongfully terminated they notify the National Labor Relations Board, which has local offices nationwide. Over [...]

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Social Frosting, Google Plus, and SEO – a Conversation

This is a recent podcast about Google Plus by Eric Schwartzman @EricSchwartzman who provides online social media training, social media strategy and social media policy governance. His new book “Social Marketing to the Business Customer” with Paul Gillin about B2B social media marketing is available now.  Social media and content strategist and President of Convince and [...]

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B2B Social Media: 4 Ways to Sell the Value to Management

Guest post by Eric Schwartzman, coauthor of Social Marketing to the Business Customer, the first book devoted exclusively to B2B social media communications. He has been conducting monthly social media training programs since 2006 and works as an independent online communications consultant to businesses, the US Military, government agencies and nonprofits. When it comes to [...]

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