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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Social Pros Podcast 1  |  Add Yours

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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How Gap Activated Its SXSW Presence

As the 2013 official SXSW t-shirt sponsor, Gap took to its social media channels to activate a series of free-spirited fashion and music themed content and events in Austin, San Francisco, Los Angeles and New York. From launching the brand’s official Tumblr site, to curating personalized content across Pinterest, Instagram and Vine, companies and brands [...]

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The 1 Big Difference Between How Men and Women Use Pinterest

It’s probably not a revelation to tell you that Pinterest skews heavily female. 70% in fact, according to our most recent study at The Social Habit. But what’s more interesting is that men and women use Pinterest for vastly different reasons, and in starkly divergent ways. The Social Habit is the comprehensive study of American [...]

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5 Ways to Use Pinterest to Boost Press Release Results

Pinterest is taking over social media like a tsunami of college students on a pizza delivery guy. Why not? It’s fun, highly addictive and – newly announced as the 3rd most popular social network in the World – it’s creeping up on Facebook with 11+ million users. So how can you leverage that popularity to [...]

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5 Brands Successfully Using Education to Engage

The psychology behind what causes people to purchase, and the impact of social and content on that dynamic, is a massive research project  (and one we’ll be tackling with The Social Habit project). But one thing we know can be effective are companies that wrap the pitch in information. It’s the spoonful of sugar that [...]

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Why Stronger Visuals Help You Sell More Stuff

Dial Corporation this week announced a new campaign that integrates its long-standing Facebook Page with its new-ish Pinterest page, giving its Facebook community a challenge to create cause-related boards on Pinterest. The top organizations featured on those user-generated boards will compete to win a $5,000 prize. This isn’t an entirely new type of campaign, of [...]

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Social Pros 15 – Marcus Sheridan, The Sales Lion

This is Episode 15 of the Social Pros Podcast : Real People Doing Real Work in Social Media. This episode features Marcus Sheridan of The Sales Lion. Read on for insights from Marcus, and our Social Media Stat of the Week (this week: email opens on smartphones and tablets have grown by 82% in the last [...]

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The Most Overrated Social Media Metric

Do you sell advertising on your website? No? Then why are you so excited about your website traffic? The most overrated social media metric is traffic from social outposts. This blog post is symptomatic of this problem, although there have been hundreds (thousands?) like it. Here’s the highlight: With only 1% of Facebook’s user count, [...]

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Social Media Time Savers: 4 New Productivity Tools and How to Use Them

Jess Ostroff is Managing Editor at Convince & Convert. She also acts as Director of Calm for the new virtual social media assistant agency, Don’t Panic Management. You can find her tweeting about social media, martinis, and music as @jessostroff. As Jay mentioned in his post yesterday, there’s a serious influx of information out there, [...]

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Social Pros 7 – Cindy Kim, JDA Software

This is Episode 7 of the Social Pros Podcast : Real People Doing Real Work in Social Media. This episode features Cindy Kim, the Director of Marketing and Social Media for JDA Software. Read on for insights from Cindy, our “Work It Out” advice segment, and Eric’s Social Media Stat of the Week (this week: [...]

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