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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Being Loud About 3M’s Quiet but Powerful Innovations

Greg Gerik, Social Media Leader for the Global E-Transformation Team at 3M, joins the Social Pros Podcast this week to discuss managing a diverse and international company’s social presence, innovation through product diversity, and why he wants to move away from being associated entirely with social. Read on for some of the highlights and tweetable [...]

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How to Promote Your Content Across Owned, Earned, and Paid Media

Content marketing evangelists have spoken – “Create great content that appeals to your customers and you’ll profit.” While this is true, marketers often forget the importance of promoting their content – people don’t find content by mistake, or by accident. Every content plan needs a complementary promotion plan that combines paid, owned, and earned media. [...]

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The Best Job in Social Media

Charlie Kautz, Content Marketer at TaylorMade Golf, joins the Social Pros Podcast this week to discuss delivering fresh story-telling content across several platforms every week, following the PGA Tour around the country, and what it’s like having the best job in social media. Read on for some of the highlights and tweetable moments, or listen [...]

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Don’t Get Caught Up In Tactics – Keep the Customer in Mind

Dave Morse, Online Marketing Strategist for Delta Faucet, joins the Social Pros Podcast this week to discuss the lessons he’s learned at Delta surrounding keeping his team nimble, knowing your audience, and how important it is to balance traditional marketing with social. Read on for some of the highlights and tweetable moments, or listen to [...]

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7 Things Content Marketers Can Learn From Fiction Writers

Content marketing is storytelling, so it’s not all that bizarre to think that fiction writers might actually have some advice for us. Can we borrow narrative devices and writing tips from fiction? I certainly believe we can. These seven skills, devices, and tactics come straight from the art of fiction, but they’re remarkable tools for [...]

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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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Smart Marketing is about Help not Hype

Can I please get your help making my new book a smash hit when it releases next month? Please watch this… Through speaking engagements and such, I’ve sold a lot of copies of Youtility, and we’re headed toward the best-seller lists. But I could use a hand from you to make sure it does even [...]

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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 to Integrate Social Media into Your Website with a Homeland Embassy Strategy

Editor’s Note: A version of this post originally appeared on Social Media Explorer. I’d like to walk you through a social media strategy concept known as the homeland-embassy approach. It’s an idea shared first by Steve Rubel, though I’m not sure he meant to take it as far and as literal as I’m going to [...]

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