by Samuel Scott | Aug 8, 2015 | Marketing Essays
My career over the years so far has taken me from journalism to SEO to public relations to conference speaking. The “SEO” part has been the most controversial. If you had asked me to define “SEO” years ago ago, I would have responded,...
by Samuel Scott | Aug 1, 2015 | Marketing Essays
I’m getting tired of spam e-mails and bad pitches. So, I was inspired by a recent blog post by Geraldine DeRuiter, otherwise known as the Everywhereist, in which she hilariously replies to every single spam message that she had received over a certain period of...
by Samuel Scott | Jun 28, 2015 | Marketing Essays
As I once wrote in an essay on how to speak at marketing conferences — events are an underrated marketing strategy because all marketing, in the end, is about people and not keywords, links, and news coverage. However, I write that statement with the caveats...
by Samuel Scott | Jun 22, 2015 | Marketing Essays
My latest essay has been published today on Moz: So wrote Ad Contrarian Bob Hoffman, the retired CEO and chairman of Hoffman/Lewis Advertising, in June 2013 on a $7.5 billion scandal that has been developing under the digital radar in the advertising world for the...
by Samuel Scott | May 26, 2015 | Marketing Essays
My latest Moz essay for my log analytics startup Logz.io is live: It’s ten o’clock. Do you know where your logs are? I’m introducing this guide with a pun on a common public-service announcement that has run on late-night TV news broadcasts in the United States...
by Samuel Scott | Apr 12, 2015 | Marketing Essays
BRIGHTON, England — I had the honor of speaking at BrightonSEO last week for log analytics startup logz.io, and it was a pleasure to meet the British digital marketing community for the first time! For those who were not able to attend my talk, I have included...