Carlos Meza

Carlos Meza serves as President & CEO of Crowd Content, a leading content creation service provider connecting talented writers and editors with businesses in need of high-quality, people-first, publish-ready content at scale in a tech-driven platform experience. A master of scale himself, Meza has been leading high-growth technology companies over the last five years. Prior to being appointed as CEO of Crowd Content in 2021, he served as CEO of Kivuto Solutions, a SaaS Edtech company. An industry veteran, Meza brings a background in engineering and corporate finance to expand the Crowd Content footprint of global brands served.

Search Marketing

Carlos MezaWednesday, June 14, 2023

How Trusted Brands Leverage Content and Search Marketing Technology to Reach People First

Search engine optimization (SEO) has long been a trusted and bankable part of most (if not all) successful marketing campaigns. But as the industry evolves, the gap between the what of SEO and the how seems to be widening. Many people understand the importance of SEO and even the basic mechanics — use the right tools to find the right…

It all started as a book club.

Yes, I’m serious. I started my work on the web more than two decades ago. My first site was Helping Hand, which curated the best sites from around the web to help people with their computers and navigate resources on the Internet. Years later, I sold the domain to a company that helped folks quit smoking, one of my first big contracts.

I began blogging on Blogger and waxed poetic about everything from politics to Internet tools. I was all over the place and mostly wrote for myself – without much of an audience. I belonged to a Marketing Book club in Indianapolis that quickly grew out of control. Over time, I discovered that more and more of the group were coming to me for technology advice. The combination of my technology background and my business and marketing acumen was in high demand as the Internet rapidly changed the industry.

After reading Naked Conversations, I was motivated to better brand and control the content on the site. I also wanted more control over the look and feel of my blog, so I moved to my domain in 2006 and built my first WordPress site. Since I was focused on marketing technology, I didn’t want the domain with my name to get in the way, so I moved the site (painfully) to its new domain in 2008 where it’s grown ever since.

The Martech Zone is owned and operated by DK New Media, LLC, a company I started in 2009. After working with virtually every major online marketing department in my tenure at ExactTarget and launching Compendium, I knew there was a great demand for my expertise and guidance within such a complex industry.

DK New Media is my company overseeing my publications, podcasts, workshops, webinars, and speaking gigs. Highbridge is my agency with two other partners that help companies maximize their investment in sales, marketing, and related products. We offer integration, migration, training, strategic consulting, and custom development.

Thank you so much for your support over the years!

Douglas Karr
CEO, DK New Media
VP, Highbridge