Skip to main content

David Meerman Scott

David Meerman Scott is a business growth strategist, advisor to emerging companies, and international bestselling author of a dozen books including Fanocracy and The New Rules of Marketing & PR. His books are published in 30 languages from Arabic to Vietnamese and have sold nearly a million copies. 

Worst Practices | Case Studies | Research and Analysis

The pay phone business and looking to your future

July 12th, 2012|1 min read

Public Relations | Newsjacking

Why PR pros need to watch The Newsroom

July 5th, 2012|1 min read

Worst Practices | Buyer Persona | Marketing | Business to Business

Salespeople's brains vs the public web

July 1st, 2012|2 min read

ebooks | Marketing | Best Practices

When free is not free

June 27th, 2012|1 min read

Social Media | Worst Practices | Case Studies | Facebook | Brand Journalism

Penn State University Football: Social media and crisis management lessons learned

June 23rd, 2012|5 min read

Case Studies | writing | Marketing | Crowdsource | Books

Why Make Art? And how to fund it

June 18th, 2012|1 min read

Join 20,000 other entrepreneurs and creatives who receive David's ideas, examples, and inspiration. Delivered to your email every week.

Social Media | Personal branding | Best Practices

Friending cats and following eggs: On social networks you ARE your photo

June 14th, 2012|2 min read

Thought Leadership | Marketing | Brand Journalism | Best Practices

Never pitch again

June 12th, 2012|1 min read

Thought Leadership | Case Studies | Personal branding

Getting fired: Ten years later and much happier

June 6th, 2012|2 min read

Worst Practices | Case Studies | Music | copywriting | Marketing

#FAIL: When copywriters don't know the product

June 4th, 2012|1 min read

Social Media | Worst Practices | Case Studies | Advertising

Stop confusing social media marketing with advertising on social sites

May 31st, 2012|1 min read

Rock Band Web Sites | Social Media | Music | Crowdsource | Brand Journalism | Best Practices

Amanda Palmer freaks out to celebrate hitting $1 million on Kickstarter

May 30th, 2012|1 min read

Worst Practices | Case Studies | Marketing | US Presidential Campaign Marketing & PR | Advertising | Brand Journalism

Avoid controversial topics like politics and religion in your marketing

May 29th, 2012|1 min read

Thought Leadership | New Rules of Marketing and PR | Personal branding | Brand Journalism | Best Practices

Educate and inform instead of interrupt and sell

May 24th, 2012|1 min read

Buyer Persona | Case Studies | YouTube | Brand Journalism | Best Practices

The art of turning heads with video

May 21st, 2012|1 min read

Social Media | Thought Leadership | New Rules of Marketing and PR | Case Studies | Brand Journalism | Best Practices

Content marketing in highly regulated industries

May 8th, 2012|4 min read

Twitter | Worst Practices | Case Studies | Advertising

Acura uses Twitter to hashtag spam hundreds

May 6th, 2012|1 min read