David Meerman Scott's Blog, page 40

Optimizing Annual Conference And Event Websites

I notice that most event planners who have a site promoting their annual conference delete the prior year’s pages, only displaying the current year’s conference information. That’s a mistake for many reasons.

Content Neutrality From Amazon, Apple, Facebook, & Google More Important Than Net Neutrality

Net neutrality is in the news, but an even bigger problem is looming, the increasing lack of content neutrality.

The island mentality of the world’s largest technology companies including Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google isn’t getting nearly the debate that it should. These companies seem to be so focused on keeping users locked into their own content technology gardens that they threaten the easy use of their products and services. 

Here’s why modern marketing began in 2007

I’ve been playing with my new iPhone X for the past week and I absolutely love it. What an amazing device!

I got to thinking about my original iPhone 1 and how revolutionary it was when released in 2007, just ten years ago, so I dug it out of a drawer and played with it too. Fooling around with my apps, I realized how many technologies that are essential to modern marketers got started in the year 2007.

Join Me In Panama: Geoversity’s Designing With Nature Event

Geoversity’s The Nature of Business Executive Program 2018 is a five-day experiential and interactive program where “restless creatives” including CEOs, executives, and entrepreneurs team up with business leaders, best-selling authors, artists, musicians, scientists and designers to gain practical insights from nature that will help them drive their businesses to new levels of performance. 

Snubbing Marketing To Build Fans And Grow Business

I was in Cairo this week for a speaking engagement at The Marketers League and my friend Omar Islam Shalaby invited me to meet him for dinner at U Bistro & Bar. Omar said: “It’s a secret bar in the hippest part of Cairo. You’ll love it.” I was especially intrigued when I got back to my hotel and found that the establishment only has a placeholder website. 

Periodic Table of Link Building Includes Newsjacking

Indago Digital, an Australia digital marketing agency, recently reviewed the various ways to build inbound links and put them into a clever Periodic Table of Link Building. The company says: “Our goal with the Periodic Table of Link Building is to help publishers focus on the fundamentals needed to achieve success by engaging with contextually relevant websites.” I’m pleased to see that Newsjacking, a concept I pioneered, is one of most important elements in the table.

Monetizing Micro-Content: What Marketers Need To Know About Blockchain

I remember very clearly the moment in 1995 when I first saw a web page. I very quickly subscribed to a dial-up internet service and began thinking about the marketing aspects of the new technology. I sensed this would be big. More than twenty-five years later, marketing has gone through an enormous revolution as a result of the web. Recently, I’ve been thinking a lot about blockchain. I think the technology is coming to marketing soon and has potential to be just as revolutionary as the web has been.

The White House: Imagining the Greatest PR Job in World

Yesterday I had the incredible honor of visiting the West Wing. It was amazing to see all the recognizable places where history is made! The highlight for me wasn’t seeing the Oval Office, although that was certainly amazing. I was most thrilled to be in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room where the White House Press Secretary conducts daily briefings.

Content Marketing vs Paid Advertising Relative to Company Growth Phase

I’m frequently asked about advertising on social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. While I’m convinced that creating original content and publishing it for free is the best strategy over the long term, I also believe there are times that the advertising programs offered by the social networks including Facebook ads, Twitter ads, LinkedIn ads, and other advertising programs make sense.

Personalization Is The Enemy Of Serendipity

I’ve noticed that more and more of my online life involves either actual personalization (I make choices of the content I want to consume) or AI generated personalization (such as when Amazon shows me products that it thinks I will like based on my prior spending habits). The problem with more and more personalization is the loss serendipity. It’s important to encounter “happy accidents” and losing those opportunities is a growing problem for all of us.