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

Optimize and the Confluence of Search and Social Media

Excerpt of my interview with Lee Odden. Video production by my friends at Candidio. Fast, inexpensive, quality video production. Transcription services from Speechpad. For full conversation, watch the video! Jay: Hey, everybody. It’s Jay Baer from Convince & Convert joined today by a very special guest, my friend Lee Odden, live from somewhere. . . [...]

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Think Narrow and Harness the Power of UnPopular

Excerpt of my interview with Erika Napoletano. Transcription services from our friends at Speechpad. For full conversation, watch the video! Jay:  Hey everybody it’s Jay Baer from Convince & Convert, joined today by a very special guest, Erika Napoletano, author of The Power of Unpopular: A Guide to Building Your Brand for the Audience Who [...]

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Can You Stand Out and Brand Against the Machine

Video production by my friends at Candidio. Fast, inexpensive, great service. (Excerpts from the interview. Watch video for the whole conversation) Jay: Hey everybody, it’s Jay Baer at Convince & Convert. I’m joined today by a very special guest, brand new author, gadfly, man-about-town, consistent wearer of black, John Morgan who is the author of [...]

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Revealing the Secret That’s Limiting Your Potential

Within the realm of self help, Tony Robbins is U2. Known by all, beloved by many, but to some degree hamstrung by his own popularity and the accompanying expectations. Tim Ferris is Radiohead. Modern, quirky, and possessing a growing group of fans proclaiming him to be the best ever. Julien Smith is Elbow. Perhaps lesser [...]

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No B.S. Social Media Virtual Book Tour and Giveaway

Video transcipt: Hey everybody, it’s Jay Baer from Convince & Convert. Hope you are doing great. Today we’re going to talk about things that are no bullshit. First thing that’s no bullshit is it is a Saturday here in beautiful Bloomington, Indiana. Going to go to the IU game with the kids. Go Hoosiers. However, [...]

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The Power of Consumer Choice Drives Social Media Importance

I love the strategy of Seth Godin’s Domino Project, which is reinventing the publishing business by making hard cover books easier to find, remember, and digest (the average Domino book contains fewer than 100 pages). The most recent Domino book to be published was by Godin himself, and unfortunately I didn’t find it particularly good. [...]

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Caring, Consistency, and the New Relationship Marketing

Jay: Hey, everybody. It’s Jay Baer from Convince & Convert. I’m joined today by a very special guest, my pal Mari Smith, live from San Diego. Jay: You are always awesome. You are always awesome. I want to see you all bummed out and sad sometime because no one has ever seen it. It’d be [...]

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Perception, Happiness, and Getting Anything You Want

I’ve read a lot of books. But I’ve perhaps never been personally impacted as much as I was reading Derek Sivers‘ new book Anything You Want. Part of Seth Godin’s Domino Project that’s rewiring the publishing industry from the inside-out, Anything You Want is a concise (one hour read) and motivational account of Derek’s experiences [...]

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How to Market to People Not Like You

Sometimes business success isn’t about changing the message, but rather changing the market. That’s the premise of the new book How to Market to People Not Like You: “Know It or Blow It” Rules for Reaching Diverse Customers(amazon link), written by my friend Kelly McDonald. Bursting with fascinating anecdotes, sound advice, and interesting facts about [...]

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13 Nuggets of Greatness from The Thank You Economy

Gary Vaynerchuk went corporate. The wine impressario turned social media superstar hit a home run with his first book Crush It!, which encouraged young, hungry entrepreneurs and small businesses to follow their passion. Now, with his new book The Thank You Economy, the fan club is going to be wearing ties instead of T-shirts. The [...]

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