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

Why 4.5 Million TV Lovers Voluntarily Became Zombies

Kenny Miller, CEO of KMco, joins the Social Pros Podcast this week to discuss his smash hit app Dead Yourself, the success of content engagement with a platform that customizes photographs, and how to empower consumers with creativity while giving them a safety net so they can’t fail. Read on for some of the highlights [...]

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Contagion, Social Media, and Why Things Catch On

Jonah Berger, Marketing Professor at the Wharton School, joins the Social Pros Podcast this week to discuss his bestseller Contagious: Why Things Catch on, the science behind those viral marketing hits, and the importance of setting realistic and helpful goals with a viral marketing campaign. Read on for some of the highlights and tweetable moments, [...]

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How H&R Block Activated 90,000 Seasonal Tax Pros in Social Media

Scott Gulbransen, Director of Social Business Strategy at H&R Block, joins the Social Pros Podcast this week to discuss the structure of social that allowed 90,000 H&R tax professionals to mobilize in unison earlier this year, driving engagement at a local level, and dealing with federal regulations as a financial services company in social media. [...]

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How Scotts Uses Social Media for Maximum Customer Support

  Beth Dockins, Director of Customer Service for Scott’s Miracle-Gro, joins the Social Pros Podcast this week to discuss Scotts approach to social media customer service, social media “tribes”, and how the Scotts brand has evolved to becoming an informational and educational company for lawn and garden owners. Read on for some of the highlights [...]

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How to Maintain Your Brand’s Authentic Voice

Brooks Thomas, Communications Specialist at Southwest, joins the Social Pros Podcast this week to discuss the progressive setup of the Southwest social media team, the widespread success of a long-running corporate blog, and keeping an authentic voice for a large brand. Read on for some of the highlights and tweetable moments, or listen to the [...]

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How to Take Charge of Your Personal Brand

Dorie Clark, Forbes contributor and author of Reinventing You, joins the Social Pros Podcast this week to discuss avoiding being pigeonholed in your current job, how to make a career change organically that will make sense, and accurately representing yourself in your personal brand. Read on for some of the highlights and tweetable moments, or listen to [...]

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Get Ready to Reboot Your Life

Mitch Joel, President of Twist Image and Author of Six Pixels of Separation and CTRL ALT Delete, joins the Social Pros Podcast this week to discuss the fast-paced changes that are coming to the way the think about mobile and e-commerce, improving the signal-to-noise ratio, and his new book due out in May. Read on for some of [...]

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How to Make Pinterest Your Brand’s Own

Callan Green, Senior Social Media Specialist at Sony, joins the Social Pros Podcast this week to discuss the layout of Sony’s social media team, how to find success on Pinterest, and playing to strengths on different platforms. Read on for some of the highlights and tweetable moments, or listen to the full podcast. Please Support Our Sponsors Huge [...]

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Solving Klout’s “Warren Buffett Problem”

Matt Thomson, VP of Business Development at Klout, joins the Social Pros Podcast this week to discuss the “Warren Buffett problem” his company faces, those fancy analytics at work behind the Klout algorithms, and expanding to offer brands a whole new product. Read on for some of the highlights and tweetable moments, or listen to the full podcast. [...]

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How to Turn Social Connections Into In-Person Sales

Alix Hart, Brand Marketer at Best Buy, joins the Social Pros Podcast this week to discuss integrating social into all aspects of customer service and battling the “showroom” effect as a brick-and-mortar retailer. Read on for some of the highlights and tweetable moments, or listen to the full podcast. Please Support Our Sponsors Huge thanks to our amazing [...]

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