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.

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The Science and Results of Real-Time Content Optimization

I’ve been writing Convince & Convert for more than three years, and I continue to be grateful and delighted that you choose to spend time here, when faced with a tsunami of blog options. I continue to find it fascinating, however, that even though this blog is probably considered successful within its very small niche, [...]

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Don’t Be a Content Marketing Grinch

This is the first of what I hope will be a regular series of Webinines: short Webinars of 9 minutes or fewer. Because it’s seemingly 150 degrees throughout most of the country, I went with a cool weather holiday theme on this one. Your Content Should Be Centralized and Decentralized The default state for most [...]

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Why You Should Use a Content Rationale Report

Little is the new big. On today’s Web, buying decisions are influenced less by the grand, sweeping programs that take old marketing and put a fresh coat of social paint on them. On today’s Web, buying decisions are influenced more by specific, hyper-relevant pieces of content that your brand creates to get in front of [...]

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Why D.I.S. is Crucial to your Content Marketing Strategy

Guest post from Russ Henneberry, who writes, speaks and executes on content marketing plans for small businesses. He writes a daily blog about how tiny businesses can make mighty profits using a personal computer, a little imagination and a few well placed dollars. The shift in marketing dollars from traditional advertising mediums to the emerging [...]

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