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

What Michael J. Fox Taught Me About Marketing

I like Michael J. Fox. I’m of the vintage that grew up with Alex P. Keaton, Teen Wolf, and Marty McFly. Further, I lost my grandfather to Parkinson’s a few years ago, and Fox’s efforts to raise funds to combat the disease are remarkable. So it was a thrill to see Fox give a keynote [...]

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5 Ways to Humanize Your Brand on Twitter

Injecting a real face and personality into your personal Twitter account is intrinsic, and most people don’t give it a second thought. We share what’s happening in our lives, photos from great vacations, things that annoy us, and other content that compels us. But when it comes to imbuing corporate Twitter accounts with a similar measure [...]

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Crystal Light Challenged Getting Ready For Bikini Season

Guest post by @Lisa Loeffler, Research & Analysis Lead at Convince & Convert. She is also founder and principal of Genuine Media, a marketing agency that helps clients build their individual and brand reputation through social media. It started out innocently when I saw Crystal Light’s new TV commercial last month. After rewinding it a [...]

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(Video) 4 Mistakes You Make When Posting Video on Your Blog

Guest post written by Rocky Walls, who has more than 10 years’ experience in digital content creation. As CEO of 12 Stars Media Productions, Rocky works with businesses to create video that’s so real and simple it changes audiences into relationships. It’s no secret that embedding videos on your blog post is a great way [...]

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Social Media Optimization 3 Steps to Tweeting with a Purpose

Social media optimization gives you the ability to not waste bullets. Every tweet and status update has a cost associated with it. Perhaps not a direct financial cost, but a real, and at times considerable labor cost. The time you spend tweeting and Facebooking and Google Plussing on behalf of yourself or your company is [...]

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