David Meerman Scott is an online thought-leadership and viral marketing strategist. The programs he has developed have won numerous awards and are responsible for selling over one billion dollars in products and services worldwide. His current book The New Rules of Marketing and PR: How to use news releases, blogs, viral marketing and online media to reach buyers directly has been a best-selling PR and marketing book since it was released in June 2007.

David has 20 years of experience in B2B information and content software businesses. For six years, he was Asia Marketing Director for a Fortune 200 company, based in Tokyo and in Hong Kong. In his most recent corporate position, David was Vice President of Marketing for a NASDAQ-traded content information company. He’s also held senior management positions at a leading e-commerce company and was a clerk on a Wall Street bond trading desk.

David developed the New Rules of Marketing seminar for Pragmatic Marketing based on his best-selling book. He is the author of two other books, is a contributing editor at EContent Magazine, and has written hundreds of articles for such diverse publications as CMOMagazine.com, MarketingProfs.com, BusinessWeek, Competitive Intelligence Magazine, North American Review, Marketing Times, PRNews, Bulldog Reporter, RainToday and many others.

“Wonderful presenter”, “clear and entertaining”, “speckled with just the right amount of humor”, are just some of the words attendees use to describe David who, as a noted worldwide expert in online marketing, has been quoted hundreds of times in magazines, newspapers, on radio and TV, and frequently presents at industry conferences and events world-wide.

David writes the Web Ink Now blog at www.WebInkNow.com and is co-author of the Tuned In blog at www.TunedInblog.com.

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Contact David at  dscott@pragmaticmarketing.com.

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