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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Audience Segmentation Lessons from Google Plus

Let me get this confession out of the way first: I’m kind of a Google fangirl. So I was pretty excited when the search giant announced Google+, their foray into social networking. I’m pretty fed up with Facebook and its constant changes (that don’t really improve my user experience) so I signed up for an [...]

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Social Frosting, Google Plus, and SEO – a Conversation

This is a recent podcast about Google Plus by Eric Schwartzman @EricSchwartzman who provides online social media training, social media strategy and social media policy governance. His new book “Social Marketing to the Business Customer” with Paul Gillin about B2B social media marketing is available now.  Social media and content strategist and President of Convince and [...]

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Popularity and Reciprocity are the Enemies of Connectivity

As I spend increasing amounts of time playing with Google Plus (see my analysis of it here), I’ve come to recognize that the success of social networking eventually brings about its demise. Twitter originally felt a lot like Google + does today, where you recognized most of the people in your stream, interactions were more [...]

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Why Google Has the Hammer To Make Businesses Use Google Plus

Everyone’s all abuzz and atwitter about Plus, the new social network from a search engine company with which you might be familiar. I won’t break down all the features and how-tos and what-ifs, as other folks are better at that, including  Jason Falls and Chris Brogan. My initial, abbreviated take is that Google’s new social [...]

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