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

How to Mitigate Social Media Disasters

This week on the Social Pros Podcast, Jay Baer and Eric Boggs take over when the scheduled guest has to cancel last minute so she can address a social media crisis in her own company. They discuss crisis management and mitigating disasters in social media with several fascinating case studies. Read on for some of the [...]

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5 Lessons to Make an Effective Animated Demo

Software from TweetReach offers a compelling value proposition: allowing users to figure out precisely how many potential impressions a tweet, brand name, or hashtag has accumulated on Twitter recently. They’ll even show you which Twitter users are spreading a particular message the most. (Note: they now have similar data for Tumblr, which is very handy). [...]

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Social Toaster vs Zuberance – 2 Ways to Activate Social Advocates

I understand why “influencer outreach” is popular. The opportunity to hitch your brand’s wagon to the plow of a new media celebrity (or demi-celebrity) and have them propagate your message seems like a no-brainer. But, we too often mistake audience for influence, and in the bright light of day these programs can be great at [...]

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How to Track Facebook Success Or Failure with Real-Time Stats

There’s been lots of gnashing of teeth and wringing of hands and pounding of keyboards about Facebook’s Edgrerank lately. “How dare they!” pontificate the social pure bloods. “We put forth the effort to get fans to ‘like’ our page, and now we have to PAY Facebook to reach them? It’s an outrage!” It’s not. Facebook [...]

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5 Lessons From the Best Example of Content Marketing Ever?

Marketers sometimes say things to me like, “Well, nobody in our industry is doing that kind of robust content marketing, so why should we start?” Here’s the deal. Your industry doesn’t matter. What matters is that big companies are embracing big content, and in so doing they are changing the expectations of YOUR customers, whether [...]

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{Free eBook} – A Field Guide to the 4 Types of Content Marketing Metrics

A field guide to the 4 types of content marketing metrics from Jay Baer Too often, content marketers tell themselves that they can’t accurately measure their results, or a tactic isn’t measurable, or that they don’t feel comfortable measuring content. These are defeatist statements, hanging over your content marketing like a dark cloud. If you find [...]

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Getting Social Media Strategy Right in Financial Services

Shannon Paul, VP of Social Media Strategy at Fifth Third Bank joins the Social Pros Podcast this week to discuss her new role at the bank, what it’s like to start a brand new social media strategy at a bank, and how listening, sentiment, and share of voice play into overall success metrics in the banking [...]

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How McDonald’s Handles Thousands of Social Mentions Per Day

Rick Wion, Director of Social Media at McDonald’s, joins the Social Pros Podcast this week to talk to us about McDonald’s social media monitoring strategy, how his team handles millions of social mentions per day, what they’ve done create so many positive brand advocates, and, of course, whether the McRib will make an appearance again this [...]

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How to Know When to Promote a Facebook Post

Social media has never been inexpensive, just different expensive. But now, the last vestiges of false assumptions about the true cost of social marketing are being wiped away. Facebook’s changes to EdgeRank essentially require that Pages pay a fee to reach more than 15 out of every 100 of their fans. How long until Twitter follows? [...]

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