Mark Schaefer

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.

http://YoutilityBook.com

About Mark Schaefer

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Mark Schaefer is a social media marketing educator who blogs at www.businessGROW.com. His latest book, "Return on Influence" explores the new era of power on the internet.

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