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 Huffington Post and Obama Killed the New York Times Online

AdAge revealed recently that the New York Times reported a steep 17.9% decline in ad revenues for July. Not unexpected, as many print behemoths are getting pummeled in this economy. (See related post “Is Digital Marketing Killing Magazine Ads”) However, NYTimes.com and the company’s other online efforts grew only .9% in July, compared to double [...]

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Bloggers: Who Is In Your Fab Five?

Thanks to Jason Falls for the inspiration (okay, it’s a straight rip-off) for this post. Jason pointed out five lesser-known bloggers that he reads regularly (including Convince & Convert). His post seems to have triggered an a-ha moment, as several other excellent social media bloggers including Mack Collier and Amber Naslund have posted similar lists [...]

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Why the Murder of Old Media is PR’s Best Chance

Since the advent of the printing press, professional opinions have helped shape our own. From Hearst to Murdoch, from Cronkite to Brokaw. Huge companies that employ thousands of trained journalists have helped us understand what’s good and bad, and whom to embrace or fear.  Not for long. This is not a flesh wound. The Internet [...]

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Pre-Conference Guide: Marketing Profs Digital Marketing Mixer

  Headed to Scottsdale for the Marketing Profs Digital Marketing Mixer? I wrote a guide with everything you need to know  - from an Arizona resident. Tips, tricks, booze, and the whole scoop. I’ll be speaking on the “What Email Subscribers Really Want” panel Wednesday, October 22 at 9am. See you soon, jason baer Download Marketing [...]

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Why PPC is about to skyrocket – and then CRASH

Times are tough. But one area that is ready to soar is pay-per-click search marketing (PPC). That most measurable and controllable of digital marketing opportunities, PPC looks like a no-brainer in this economy. Have you called a newspaper lately and asked them if they’ll charge you per phone call generated? Even with ad sales down [...]

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Joseph Jaffe – The Twitter 20 Twinterview about Social Media and Conversation Marketing

Joseph Jaffe of Jaffejuice and Crayon was the first interviewee in the Twitter 20 series from Jason Baer at Convince & Convert. 20 questions and answers live on Twitter. A twinterview. If you sat in, I’d love your feedback and ideas in the comments below. Who would you like to see interviewed in in a [...]

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Announcing Twitter 20 – Interviews on Twitter

Starting Soon. Follow @jaybaer and @jaffejuice to see Questions and Answers. I’m happy to announce a new Convince and Convert initiative – Twitter 20. On a regular basis, I’ll be interviewing social media and digital marketing luminaries on Twitter and posting the interviews here for review, comment, and posterity. 140 character questions (x20). 140 character [...]

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The 6 Dangerous Fallacies of Social Media

(Amazing Gangsta Chimp image by the talented Matt Cioffi) You may have heard of social media. There’s been a bit of news about it recently. However, a lot of people making that news have created expectations and beliefs about social media that aren’t true. 1. Social Media is Inexpensive False. As Charlene Li said recently, [...]

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Amp Up Email Results with Honeymoon Segmentation

Subscribers to your email list are most likely to open, click, forward to a friend, and buy in the first 30-60 days after joining the list. This is the Honeymoon and you need to use it to boost your email results – especially in the 4th quarter holiday shopping season. This chart from Marketing Sherpa [...]

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