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
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How to Integrate Inbound Marketing Tactics Into Your PR Strategy

In the past, public relations has revolved around pushing a message out to a targeted audience to build awareness and drive sales. As traditional public relations continues to migrate to digital PR, content marketing, and inbound marketing, many PR professionals are aggressively learning new skills and adapting their processes to fit the changing environment. The [...]

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3 Steps to Building a Solid Media List

Ever land a cover story from a Twitter pitch? Newsjack breaking news from a Facebook feed? Secure a blog column on a critical e-zine website?  If not, it’s time to kick up your PR skills a notch or two. The PR industry continues to shift like Tony Stewart at a Daytona race, and it impacts EVERY area [...]

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Blogger Outreach Software That Will Make You Do a Happy Dance

Blogger outreach is a major part of many agencies’ social media offerings, and finding and managing relationships with bloggers is often a time-consuming, Sisyphean task that usually gets foisted upon junior team members who then spend dozens of hours on random Google searches and lame email pitches. Let’s fix that. First, understand the 4 ways [...]

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Blogger Outreach Changes the PR Timeline Forever

PR behemoth Ketchum (the PR agency of record for ConAgra) caught it’s foot in a bear trap of its own manufacture recently, when it thunk up and perpetrated a bait and switch blogger outreach program. Evidently, Ketchum invited a group of bloggers to a restaurant in NYC, where they would enjoy a “delicious four-course meal”, [...]

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What the Playground Can Teach you about Social Media

Guest post by Stacey Acevero, social media community manager at Vocus and PRWeb. Integrating social media into your online marketing mix can be a lot like the first day of school. The marketplace, and the playground, is filled to the brim with those both mature and immature, those that are outspoken and shy and each [...]

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10 Key Points in the New Client Pre-Nuptial Agreement

Guest post by Lori R Taylor, founder of REV Media Marketing llc, is a 20 year marketing veteran, dedicated to direct response metrics and firmly believes “if popularity is vanity then sales are sanity – it’s up to you to decide how crazy you can afford to be.” Remember that first meeting between the prospective new [...]

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The 7 New Roles Agencies Must Play to Survive Real-Time Business

Change is all around us, in many shapes and guises. Yet the nucleus of most of the shifts that have us feeling like we’re in a transformational maelstrom is speed. Everything happens faster now. Awareness can be captured more quickly than ever before. Sales can be closed instantly online. Customer service issues can be resolved [...]

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Why Are Companies Not Valuing Judgment As A Critical Element

Guest post by Noemi Pollack, CEO & Founder of The Pollack PR Marketing Group, a 25-year old integrated PR and marketing agency in Century City, CA. Inevitably, when corporate America seeks a PR agency to support their communications effort, the Request for Proposals (RFP) asks for critical capabilities that can help a company sift through [...]

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Is Social Conversation a Myth?

Mitch Joel, whose blog and work I greatly admire, wrote a very interesting blog post recently that bemoaned the lack of conversation in social media. As coined by Joseph Jaffe (another good guy who was incidentally the very first guest on my series of live Twitter interviews), businesses have been trying to Join the Conversation [...]

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The 8 Wrong Questions PR Firms Are Asking About Social Media

The enthusiasm about social media among public relations professionals is rampant, and encouraging. Wanting to be at the center of a new way to communicate to customers and prospects is a worthy objective. But, under pressure from digital and advertising agencies each looking to be the driver of the social media express, PR firms are [...]

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