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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5 Steps to Setting Social Media Limits

Feeling overwhelmed by social media and social networks? Does it occasionally seem that all this connectivity comes at the expense of your free time? Struggling to decide whether to follow back or friend up that guy you met at the local Chamber of Commerce event whom you don’t really know, but might be a useful [...]

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Amber Naslund – The Twitter 20 Interview on Making Friends and Listening to People

Amber Naslund is like the post-modern, social media version of that girl in high school that everyone loved. The geeks. the stoners. The jocks. The auto-shop dudes. The home economics apron-wearers. The goths. The teachers. Social media is about people and connections, and like Chris Brogan and Gary Vaynerchuk, Amber’s passion for people shines through [...]

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5 Ways to be a Social Networking Smash

1. Be Helpful Distribute what you know. Make people smarter. 2. Share It’s not all about you. For every time you talk about your own stuff, talk about other people’s great content 8 times. 3. Be Personal People gravitate toward people, not robots. Show what you’re really like. Just don’t be a freak. 4. Ask [...]

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3 Key Twitter Changes Lost in the Hysteria

As it grows up, is Twitter taking the fun out of it? Lost in the hysteria over changes to Twitter’s reply handling scheme are several other adjustments that were more quietly unveiled/discussed in recent days that are likely to prove much more important. 1. Follower Notices in HTML Notifications that you have been followed by [...]

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Lee Odden – The Twitter 20 Interview on SEO and Social Media

Lee Odden is the CEO of TopRank Marketing a first-class search, social, email and online PR consultancy based in sunny Minneapolis. A conference legend, Lee speaks somewhere in America about digital marketing on a seemingly daily basis. He is widely recognized as a leader in the convergence of historically separate tactics like search, PR, and [...]

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Friend or Faux – 6 Ways to Activate Customers

Two questions. How many Facebook fans does your company have? What do you want your Facebook fans to do on behalf of your company? Way too many people can answer the first question, but not the second. And that’s the biggest weakness of company-based social media at present. The Friend Bubble Doing something (buying Google [...]

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Beth Harte – The Twitter 20 Interview About Marketing and Social Media

Beth Harte has been dispensing solid, effective marketing advice to companies and students for more than a decade. Now, her killer blog (The Harte of Marketing) and her wisdom-filled Tweets have increased her reach and influence geometrically. That’s a positive development, as her students at Immaculata University and the folks in Philadelphia shouldn’t have her [...]

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The Double Life of a Live Tweet

As you may know if you follow me, I tend to tweet a lot. This is especially true at conferences, where I engage in Live Tweeting (sending summary tweets of main points the speaker is making while the presentation is ongoing). Some followers have told me that they appreciate my live tweeting, and that I’m [...]

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The Social Media Reality Show

A recent survey from Netpop Research showed that U.S. Internet users are spending much more time communicating online, instead of entertaining themselves. That got me thinking? Aren’t they the same thing?

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Are You A Shaq or A Penelope?

Are you embracing social media connectivity, or trying to hide from it? I realize that not everyone on the planet is going spend hours and hours each day communicating via social networks, creating content, and generally treating the social Web as if it’s the greatest development since “add your own” butter at movie theaters.  But [...]

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