The executive summary of Youtility: Why Smart Marketing is About Help not Hype, the new marketing book from Jay Baer that shows how companies can use truly, inherently useful marketing to win customer attention and loyalty. This presentation includes 14 exclusive summary videos from Jay Baer.

1. YoutilityBook.com
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2. About Youtility
Jay
Baer
The difference between helping and selling is just two letters.
But those two letters are critically important to your company’s
success. If you’re wondering how to get more attention and
how to make your products seem more exciting online,
you’re asking the wrong question.
You’re not competing for attention only against other, similar
products. You’re competing for attention against your customers’
closest friends and family members, and against viral videos and
cute puppies. To win in this hyper-competitive environment, you
must ask a different question: “How can we help?”
It’s a new approach that cuts through the clutter: marketing
that is truly, inherently useful. If you sell something, you
make a customer today, but if you genuinely help someone,
you create a customer for life. This is Youtility.
Drawing from his experience consulting for more than 700
brands, and rich with case studies and examples, in Youtility
Jay Baer provides a groundbreaking recipe for how to use
information and helpfulness to transform the relationship
between companies and customers.
Youtility is a new marketing framework for the age of
information overload.
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3. As a marketing strategy, top-of-mind awareness is less
effective than ever for two reasons:
✱✱ The media landscape is highly fractured
✱✱ Companies are fundamentally distrusted
by consumers
1 Top-of-Mind
Awareness
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4. ✱✱ Being found doesn’t create demand, it can
only fulfill it
✱✱ Search engines’ role in the marketing funnel
is weakening
2 Frame-of-Mind
Awareness
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5. ✱✱ Today, companies must compete for attention
against consumers’ friends and family members
✱✱ If your company and its marketing are truly,
inherently useful, your customers and prospective
customer will keep you close, as they keep their
friends and family members close
3 Friend-of-Mine
Awareness
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6. ✱✱ We’ve always tried to build loyalty with people,
and now we must build loyalty with information
✱✱ Death of the salesmen: we talk to a real person
as a last resort, not as a first step
4 Self-Serve
Information
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7. ✱✱ Creating customers by answering their questions
is imminently viable and carries remarkable,
persuasive power
✱✱ Unless it inhibits ease-of-use, there is no
downside to providing extraordinarily detailed
information to your prospective customers
5 Radical
Transparency
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8. ✱✱ Youtility is real-time relationship building. You’re
either sufficiently useful at any given moment, and
thus can connect with the customer, or you’re not
✱✱ For decades, the key question has been “how
valuable is the brand?” The key question moving
forward is “how valuable are your apps?”
6 Real-Time Relevancy
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9. ✱✱ You have to understand what your prospective
customers need to make better decisions, and
how you can improve their life by providing it
✱✱ Search engine, social chatter, web analytics data,
and customer interview will help you understand
customer needs
7 Identify Customer
Needs
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10. ✱✱ Determining which is the optimal conveyance
for Youtility requires a level of research beyond
understanding customer needs
✱✱ Atomize your marketing to reach a larger audience
8 Map Customer Needs
to Useful Marketing
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11. ✱✱ People are not going to magically find your
Youtility, you have to add promotional support
✱✱ Content is fire, and social media is gasoline
9 Market Your
Marketing
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12. ✱✱ Everything important in business starts as a job,
and eventually becomes a skill
✱✱ Involving a wide variety of employees not only
makes it easier to create and maintain helpful
information, it also increases effectiveness
because they bring credibility that centralized,
official communication doesn’t have
10 Insource Youtility
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13. ✱✱ Youtility requires a never-ending, constantly
reinvented and refined process
✱✱ You can’t schedule greatness, and it doesn’t
respond well to deadlines and ultimatums
11 Make Youtility a
Process, Not a Project
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14. ✱✱ If Youtility is going to be more than a marginalized
novelty for you and your company, it must be
measured effectively
✱✱ There are four categories of measurement
that matter:
4 Consumption metrics
4 Advocacy and Sharing metrics
4 Lead-generation metrics
4 Sales metrics
12 Keep Score
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15. About Jay Baer
Jay
Baer
✱✱ Hype-free marketing strategist,
speaker, author
✱✱ President of content and social media
strategy consultancy, Convince & Convert
✱✱ Works with mid-sized and large brands
to plan and implement Youtility, and
integrate with social media.
See ConvinceAndConvert.com.
✱✱ To bring Youtility to your company or event,
visit JayBaer.com for speaking details
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16. Win a limited-edition
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✱✱ Once the book is released,
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