Social Media Marketing Quotes

• Successful social media marketing is not built on impressions. It is built on relationships

  Kim Garst

  Successful, Media, Marketing

  Kim Garst (2015). “Will the Real You Please Stand Up: Show Up, Be Authentic, and Prosper in Social Media”, p.10, Morgan James Publishing

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• A brand is no longer what we tell the consumer it is - it is what consumers tell each other it is.

  Scott D. Cook

  Business, Media, Marketing

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• If you make customers unhappy in the physical world, they might each tell 6 friends. If you make customers unhappy on the Internet, they can each tell 6,000 friends.

  Jeff Bezos

  Inspirational, Business, Media

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• The goal of social media is to turn customers into a volunteer marketing army

  Jay Baer

  Army, Media, Volunteer

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• Content is fire. Social media is gasoline.

  Ryan Kahn

  Motivational, Success, Fire

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• Social media is about sociology and psychology more then technology.

  Brian Solis

  Technology, Media, Psychology

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• Marketing is no longer about the stuff that you male, but about the stories you tell.

  Seth Godin

  Marketing, Stuff, Males

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• Successful companies in social media function more like entertainment companies, publishers, or party planners than as traditional advertisers.

  Erik Qualman

  Powerful, Party, Successful

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• Think like a publisher, not a marketer.

  David Meerman Scott

  Thinking, Media, Marketing

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• People influence people. Nothing influences people more than a recommendation from a trusted friend. A trusted referral influences people more than the best broadcast message. A trusted referral is the Holy Grail of advertising.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  People, Holy Grail, Referrals

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• Don’t optimize for conversions, optimize for revenue.

  Neil Patel

  Marketing, Revenue, Conversion

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• You can buy attention (advertising). You can beg for attention from the media (PR). You can bug people one at a time to get attention (sales). Or you can earn attention by creating something interesting and valuable and then publishing it online for free.

  David Meerman Scott

  Business, Media, Creating

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• Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Social media allows big companies to act small again.

  Jay Baer

  Media, Social, Bigs

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• Content-based marketing gets repeated in social media and increases word-of-mouth mentions; it's the best way to gather buzz about a product.

  Marsha Collier

  Powerful, Media, Marketing

  Marsha Collier (2012). “Social Media Commerce For Dummies”, p.30, John Wiley & Sons

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• Think big and don't listen to people who tell you it can't be done. Life's too short to think small.

  Tim Ferriss

  Inspirational, Life, Successful

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• We're living at a time when attention is the new currency.

  Pete Cashmore

  Attention, Social Media, Social Network

  "Privacy is dead, and social media hold smoking gun" by Pete Cashmore, www.cnn.com. October 28, 2009.

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• We have technology, finally, that for the first time in human history allows people to really maintain rich connections with much larger numbers of people.

  Pierre Omidyar

  Business, Technology, Numbers

  "Online Extra: Pierre Omidyar on "Connecting People"". Interview with Robert D. Hof, www.bloomberg.com. June 20, 2005.

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• Sell-sell-sell sales methods simply do not work on social media.

  Kim Garst

  Media, Marketing, Social

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• Build it, and they will come" only works in the movies. Social Media is a "build it, nurture it, engage them, and they may come and stay.

  Seth Godin

  Media, Marketing, May

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• All one needs is a computer, a network connection, and a bright spark of initiative and creativity to join the economy.

  Don Tapscott

  Business, Creativity, Sparks

  Anthony D. Williams, Don Tapscott (2011). “Wikinomics”, p.22, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• The qualities that make Twitter seem inane and half-baked are what makes it so powerful.

  Jonathan Zittrain

  Business, Powerful, Quality

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• The best way to engage honestly with the marketplace via Twitter is to never use the words "engage," "honestly," or "marketplace."

  Jeffrey Zeldman

  Business, Use, Way

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• Everyone starts out with nobody listening to them and nobody to listen to. How and who you add determines what Twitter will become for you.

  Laura Fitton

  Powerful, Listening, Add

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• Engage, Enlighten, Encourage and especially...just be yourself! Social media is a community effort, everyone is an asset.

  Susan Cooper

  Being Yourself, Powerful, Media

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