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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Are you spending enough on digital marketing?

GroupM (the holding company for all of the WPP media agencies), issued a new report saying that share of spend on digital and interactive media has increased from 8% in 2005 to 14% this year. They project the total to increase to 16% next year as new digital marketing tactics like mobile and behavioral targeting [...]

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How to avoid the 3 critical mistakes of online advertising

$15.9 billion. That’s what eMarketer projected was spent on U.S. online advertising in 2006. For a dose of perspective, that’s more than was spent on local radio ads, cable TV ads, billboards, and B-to-B Magazines like Solid Waste & Recycling.  In truth, online advertising trails only network television, local newspapers, and consumer magazines in total [...]

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The Death of the Deal: Google aims to transform old school media buying

Rerouting inefficient markets is what the Internet does best. Wherever lack of information transparency requires regular folks to use specialists to make a transaction, the Internet will discredit and then cripple that industry. The former travel agents and stockbrokers serving your Bloomin’ Onion at Outback can attest to the Net’s unique ability to eliminate the [...]

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Swissarmyknife.com: Using Web strategy to improve integrated marketing

What does the Internet have to do with your print, TV, radio, direct mail and other traditional tactics? Plenty. Along with the oft-cited belief that half of all marketing dollars are wasted lies a corollary, which is that the traditional components of most marketing plans are evaluated using less than scientific means. In many cases, [...]

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It Knows If You’ve Been Bad or Good: A Guide To Behavioral Targeting Internet Ads

Internet advertising is an orgy of choice. There are literally tens of thousands of potential sites on which an ad could be placed, and dozens of different ad sizes and formats. Add a variety of pricing schemes and an often inexperienced sales force, and you get a casserole  of confusion that makes buying radio or [...]

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Lazurus.com: Thought to be dead, Internet advertising is back

Ridiculed by most ad agencies, the media and nearly every major company that doesn’t sell technology, Internet advertising has endured a tough couple of years. After actually decreasing by 24.8% from 2000 to 2002, total U.S. Internet advertising expenditures are anticipated to be $8.1 billion this year. It’s an increase of 6.3% over last year, [...]

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