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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How to Curate 6,000 Pieces of Content This Year

Todd Wheatland, VP of Marketing at Kelly OCG, joins the Social Pros Podcast from Content Marketing World in Sydney, Australia this week to discuss producing massive amounts of relevant content, curating your personal brand, and how to get your followers to share your content. Read on for some of the highlights and tweetable moments, or listen to the [...]

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Cadbury’s Crave-Worthy Pile of Candy Keeps It Real

Editor’s Note: This post is part of a series of weekly posts that highlight interesting examples of brands using imagery to their content marketing advantage. Read on for this week’s example and analysis from Jessica Gioglio. At first glance, Cadbury’s recent Google+ post featuring a pile of their delicious Dairy Milk candy seems like taking the [...]

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Land Rover USA Gets Ferocious

Editor’s Note: This post is part of a series that highlights interesting examples of brands using imagery to their content marketing advantage. Read on for this week’s example and analysis from Jessica Gioglio. This post is a reminder that brands should be a little more ferocious in their content strategy. If you focus on capturing stunning, yet [...]

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How to Derive Inspiration from an Active Fan Base

Jessica Gioglio, Public Relations and Social Media Manager at Dunkin’ Donuts, joins the Social Pros Podcast this week to discuss Dunkin’s army of brand advocates, whether frequency of using a brand contributes to brand loyalty, and what the social media staffing looks like at a company as socially active as Dunkin’ Donuts. Read on for some of the [...]

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How Turkish Airlines United International Fans [Infographic]

These days, with so many new media platforms, companies can end up having a hard time staying on brand across channels. So, it’s nice to see when a company is executing a strategy that engages their target audience while still being able to stay true to their core brand message. One of the companies doing [...]

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The Dreaded Plaque Talk Sparks Facebook Engagement

Editor’s Note: This post is part of a series of weekly posts that highlight interesting examples of brands using imagery to their content marketing advantage. Read on for this week’s example and analysis from Jessica Gioglio. Have you had the plaque talk with your kids yet? Though not the type of content one expects to see [...]

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Social Media Strategy in 8 Steps

Over the past four years at Convince & Convert, we’ve continued to refine our social media strategy process. Here’s one of the latest iterations, presented as a keynote speech to ESTO (Educational Seminar for Travel Organizations) last Fall. I’ve pasted the slides below, but also included a short summary of the 8 steps in our [...]

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Empowering Employees with Social Business Strategy

Sandy Carter, VP of Social Business Sales and Evangelism at IBM, joins the Social Pros Podcast this week to discuss social media versus social business, the importance of innovation in social business strategy, and how to keep customers and employees alike most productive and loyal. Read on for some of the highlights or listen below for the [...]

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If You’re Looking Content Creation Moments Are Everywhere

Ann Handley, Chief Content Officer at MarketingProfs and co-writer of Content Rules, joins the Social Pros Podcast live from the New Media Expo in Las Vegas this week to discuss the on-going visual renaissance, leaving the “person” out of “personable” in social, and the struggle to keep the customer first. Read on for some of the highlights [...]

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How Penn and Teller Turn the Audience Into Social Megaphones

One of the biggest mistakes brands are making in social is overemphasizing their owned media and underemphasizing their earned media. Companies are spending time and riches to acquire a larger audience so that they can talk at more people, while simultaneously ignoring the simple truth that those people aren’t just message receptacles, but also megaphones [...]

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