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.

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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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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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Don’t Ignore Content in Favor of Engagement

In this edition of The Baer Facts, I talk with Kyle Lacy of ExactTarget about whether you should be spending more time on content creation, or on engagement via social media. Evidently, Kyle heard a statement at an event recently that brands should be spending 90% of their time on engaging with customers, and 10% [...]

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The Biggest, Yet Never Mentioned, Benefit of Content Marketing

We can pretend we’ve all accepted the commonly understood benefits of content marketing. But we’d be pretenders. Let’s deal with the digits. Content marketing can help you make money. Planned and executed by marketing professionals, your content marketing efforts will drive traffic to your site and increase leads. It’s capable of playing a role in helping you better [...]

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Why Next Level Content Needs A Managing Editor

Content creation is all the rage these days now that Google has updated their algorithm and companies are seeing outstanding results from providing useful content on the web. But if you have a large content program, you know that creating amazing content is only half the battle. You also need to edit, format, schedule, and [...]

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11 Reasons Why Prospects Don’t Convert Into Customers

Just four years ago, my friend Marcus Sheridan discovered the power of content marketing and rescued his nearly bankrupt pool and spa business. He dove deep into blogging and propelled River Pools and Spas to a dominant leadership position in his home state of Virginia. Today, while still maintaining partial ownership of the pool business, [...]

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How to Outsource Your Way to Better Content

I was going to bed crying and waking up vomiting. I was putting in 80-hour week after 80-hour week and still not getting it all done. I was acting as CEO, CFO, manager, secretary, and janitor. I was everything and more to the company I had started. Things were going 24/7 with no sign of [...]

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Make These 5 Marketing Changes in a Smartphone Dominated America

In 2013, smartphone penetration in the United States will reach 57%. This is when we cross the chasm – the majority of adult Americans will have, in their pants, access to most of the world’s knowledge, at all times. Information is the enemy of excuses. (tweet this) If you make a bad decision today you’re [...]

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Why You Shouldn’t Do Content Marketing

I’m guilty. There. An odd way to come out of the 2013 gate, I admit, but the truth will set you free, right? Intent to harm doesn’t factor into this crime. In fact, until now, I wasn’t even aware of my wrongdoing. My admission now: I’ve been talking some of my clients into doing content [...]

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Targeted Content: The Holy Grail of Content Marketing

For any piece of content to be successful, it has to be personalized and speak to a specific person (a potential buyer), with a specific need, at a specific point in his or her buyer journey. Put another way, you have to have targeted content that reflects a deep understanding of who your audience and [...]

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