by Samuel Scott | Sep 4, 2013 | Marketing Essays
“Did Google just kill PR agencies?” That was the headline of a recent article on ZDNet whose author misunderstands the nature of online public relations and SEO – the answer to its question is a resounding “no.” Tom Foremski, the author, cites this page of...
by Samuel Scott | Aug 20, 2013 | Marketing Essays
Content is the fuel of social media, so companies that want to take advantage of the opportunities offered by social media will need to create a complimentary content-marketing strategy. In a prior post on how to create a social-media marketing strategy, we outlined...
by Samuel Scott | Jul 22, 2013 | Marketing Essays
Why is global search-engine optimization and marketing important? Simple. As Marcus Wohlsen recently noted in Wired, people trust Google: Custora found that customers who came to retailers from search were more than 50 percent more valuable than average. In other...
by Samuel Scott | Jun 10, 2013 | Marketing Essays
Imagine that you are a marketing vice president living in the early 1950s, when television first became widely popular in the United States. The CEO of your company wants the millions of users of the new medium to know about your product – but he is not interested in...
by Samuel Scott | May 13, 2013 | Marketing Essays
As technological innovations occur at an ever-increasing rate, marketers often develop unrealistic expectations because they think that each new gadget or medium has made all of the previous communications strategies obsolete. Far from it. For example, social media is...
by Samuel Scott | Dec 24, 2012 | Marketing Essays
TEL AVIV – Here in the Silicon Valley of the Middle East, I finally saw the hit movie “The Avengers” only recently since it had finally come to Israeli cable TV. As a fan of director Joss Whedon, I loved watching how a group of heroes with expertise in...