by Samuel Scott | Mar 13, 2017 | Marketing Essays
My new column for The Drum is live: Apples are not oranges – and ‘content marketing’ means nothing The moment that you slap a call-to-action on any piece of marketing collateral, it becomes direct-response advertising. More on that after a story. Read the whole thing...
by Samuel Scott | Feb 27, 2017 | Marketing Essays
My new column is up at The Drum: Will February 2017 go down as the month that destroyed adtech? February 2017 has been a bad month for adtech. This month’s news should shake the industry down to its very core – and rightfully so. Marc Pritchard rocks the ad world...
by Samuel Scott | Feb 14, 2017 | Marketing Essays
Want to learn all about the effective integration of traditional and digital marketing and how to solve the problems in modern marketing? I have debuted my new biweekly marketing column named “The Promotion Fix” at The Drum: The entire marketing industry...
by Samuel Scott | Jan 11, 2017 | Marketing Essays
My first marketing column at The Drum is live! Throughout this month, countless marketers will write clickbait articles listing all of the ways that marketing is destined to change this year. Most of those pieces will be unoriginal, redundant and uninteresting. And...
by Samuel Scott | Dec 21, 2016 | Marketing Essays
In early 2016, I published a TechCrunch column on why “Everything the Tech World Says About Marketing is Wrong.” Following that article, Unbounce interviewed me for their podcast. The podcast went live today! –> You can listen to it for free here....
by Samuel Scott | Nov 29, 2016 | Marketing Essays
Part of the problem with evangelists is that they are always biased. Christian evangelists must always state that Jesus was always correct and never did anything wrong. Brand evangelists must always state that their brands do everything right and nothing to harm...