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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The Ultimate Social Media Quote

As I go dark for a few days to enjoy some family (and snow shoveling) time, I wanted to give you this quintessential social media quote – which I believe is suitable for cutting out and taping to your desk. Think about it as you consider your plan for 2009, which will be the Year [...]

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Seven Things About Jason Baer

I didn’t really want to do this. You read the Convince & Convert blog for reasons that are no doubt unrelated to my personal proclivities and back story. But, I was tagged by Amber Naslund as part of a “blogger chain letter” type thing, and she asked me to participate. So, in the spirit of [...]

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Bloggers: Who Is In Your Fab Five?

Thanks to Jason Falls for the inspiration (okay, it’s a straight rip-off) for this post. Jason pointed out five lesser-known bloggers that he reads regularly (including Convince & Convert). His post seems to have triggered an a-ha moment, as several other excellent social media bloggers including Mack Collier and Amber Naslund have posted similar lists [...]

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Pre-Conference Guide: Marketing Profs Digital Marketing Mixer

  Headed to Scottsdale for the Marketing Profs Digital Marketing Mixer? I wrote a guide with everything you need to know  - from an Arizona resident. Tips, tricks, booze, and the whole scoop. I’ll be speaking on the “What Email Subscribers Really Want” panel Wednesday, October 22 at 9am. See you soon, jason baer Download Marketing [...]

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Announcing Twitter 20 – Interviews on Twitter

Starting Soon. Follow @jaybaer and @jaffejuice to see Questions and Answers. I’m happy to announce a new Convince and Convert initiative – Twitter 20. On a regular basis, I’ll be interviewing social media and digital marketing luminaries on Twitter and posting the interviews here for review, comment, and posterity. 140 character questions (x20). 140 character [...]

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The Social Media Train: Catch It While You Can

Why, What, When & How to Implement Social Media Campaigns Just finished moderating a rousing panel discussion in Montreal at the Worldcom Americas conference. (Worldcom is the world’s largest collective of independent PR firms) Joined by Mike Corak from Off Madison Ave, Stefan Pollack from the Pollack PR Marketing Group, and Diego Biasi from Business [...]

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Customized Internet Marketing Training for Agencies

Convince & Convert launches new training program series to help agencies improve their digital capabilities Addressing the needs of ad agencies and PR firms to improve their digital marketing competency, Convince & Convert is now providing a series of customizable, in-person training programs. We are offering 5 intensive, all-day sessions to train ad agencies and [...]

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5 Memorable Lessons from my Sarah Palin PPC Campaign

Thanks to everyone for participating in my “Are you man enough to write a PPC ad about a woman VP” contest. Many excellent entries (see original post). Here are the results: McCain is 72 years old  Avg US life expectancy is 78 years  Is Palin qualified? Read This  DailyKos.com   1.31% Click-through rate         Sarah Palin’s Secrets  What [...]

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And They’re Off…Palin PPC Finalists Selected…Ads Live on Google

Thanks to everyone who participated in the Palin PPC contest (see post below). It was difficult to select 4 ads to test live on Google, but ultimately I choose these: Sarah Palin’s Secrets What the GOP doesn’t want you to know about McCain’s running mate from James Archer (@jamesarcher) I like this one because it’s [...]

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