by Samuel Scott | Jan 13, 2025 | Marketing Essays
My new column is live in The Drum: In 2024, marketers made many bold AI predictions. Which ones came true? Sam Scott returns to mark the homework of 2024 marketing predictions in his column, The Promotion Fix. It’s an annual tradition that holds charlatans and the...
by Samuel Scott | Sep 9, 2024 | Marketing Essays
In two weeks, I’ll be speaking on AI in marketing at the Steppe Arena during the Mongolian Marketing Association’s annual Smart Marketing Conference. The potential value goes far beyond just using LLMs to write copy and create images. I also have...
by Samuel Scott | Sep 6, 2024 | Marketing Essays
My new column is out in The Drum: My Oasis ticket journey proves marketers are half the world away on attribution The Promotion Fix columnist Samuel Scott spent a full day getting Oasis tickets. With all that spare time, he theorized how marketers could wrongly chart...
by Samuel Scott | Jul 22, 2024 | Marketing Essays
Business events are back! After 4.5 years, I’m seeing more and more private events and conferences. And speaking inquiries. So, I have a new reel. I hate the cliché, but feel free to “like,” comment, and share on YouTube. And here are my new, general...
by Samuel Scott | Jul 15, 2024 | Marketing Essays
(My new column is out in The Drum.) Apple’s Vision Pro $600m failure shows the importance of market orientation Apple just learned a $600m lesson in how companies can be too product-oriented and not market-oriented enough. That is how much revenue the company will...
by Samuel Scott | Jun 28, 2024 | Marketing Essays
In the B2B software industry, the higher-ups will create marketing objectives based on website traffic and free trial conversion rates. Then, they assume correlations so that an X% increase in traffic will result in Y% increase in sales. In this mindset, it always...