Social Media Quotes - Page 34

• Observing and understanding the social media phenomenon is one thing-leveraging this trend for advertising purposes is quite another. While most companies recognize the value of social media advertising opportunities, not many have figured out how to execute these kinds of campaigns and the unique risks they entail because of the potential that a viral marketing effort can backfire and actually harm a brand.

  Stephen Jin-Woo Kim

  Business, Unique, Opportunity

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• At a minimum the majority of search dollars will flow to a social media model because people care most about what their peers think and the technology is there for that information to be quickly shared on products and services.

  Erik Qualman

  Technology, Thinking, Media

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• No matter what, the very first piece of Social Media Real Estate I'd start with is a blog.

  Chris Brogan

  Real, Media, Marketing

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• Just be nice, take genuine interest in the people you meet, and keep in touch with people you like. This will create a group of people who are invested in helping you because they know you and appreciate you.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Nice, People, Appreciate

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• Pushing a company agenda on social media is like throwing water balloons at a porcupine.

  Erik Qualman

  Media, Water, Pushing

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• Social media is a giant distraction to the ultimate aim, which is honing your craft as a songwriter. There are people who are exceptional at it, however, and if you can do both things, then that's fantastic, but if you are a writer, the time is better spent on a clever lyric than a clever tweet.

  Bryan Adams

  Clever, Media, People

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• What happens when you combine blogs, Google and millions of dissatisfied customers? An e-mob.

  Bob Garfield

  Business, Google, Happens

  Bob Garfield (2009). “The Chaos Scenario”

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• Today, getting people to hear your story on social media, and then act on it, requires using a platform’s native language, paying attention to context, understanding the nuances and subtle differences that make each platform unique, and adapting your content to match.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Unique, Media, Native Language

  Gary Vaynerchuk (2013). “Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook: How to Tell Your Story in a Noisy Social World”, p.22, Harper Collins

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• The information you get from social media is not a substitute for academic discipline at all.

  Bill Nye

  Media, Discipline, Information

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• A lot of people use social media to share mundane things or for self-glorification. I try to use it to share interesting things with people.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Self, Media, People

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• The bubble hasn't popped yet and there's tremendous value in social media. ... But it's wishful thinking to believe that others on the 'me too' bandwagon will survive.

  Peter Fader

  Believe, Thinking, Media

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• Concerned consumers are realizing that they can use social media to organize themselves around shared values to start effective movements. Social media gives them a sounding board to share ideas, as well as a means to punish irresponsible corporate behaviors.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Mean, Media, Ideas

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• We will continue to address things, but in as much as I want to talk about politics as they are related to social media, I don't necessarily want to be a political show. I want it to cover everything, everything in our culture through social media, politics, pop culture, entertainment, science, everything.

  Chris Hardwick

  Political, Culture, Pop Culture

  Source: deadline.com

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• Much like great products, great content will only find the best people to love it if it's leveraged well.

  Paul Shannon

  People, Wells, Products

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• I just feel like, for me personally, there's just been so much election fatigue, and while I think it was very important during the election to always be on top of everything that was going on with the election via social media, I do feel like, all right, now we need a little bit of a detox. I think people need a little bit of a break from it.

  Chris Hardwick

  Thinking, People, Important

  Source: deadline.com

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• You could have a zillion Facebook followers. Those people don't buy records. It's about a hundred to one...Record companies, they don't have any money so they see social media as the free marketing...So,...'Billy, light yourself on fire and stand upside down, and that'll market the record'. I've spent a lot of time thinking about this. I don't think people by records because of anything that happens on Facebook. They buy records cause they're friends say 'I bought this record and I love it'.

  Billy Corgan

  Thinking, Fire, Light

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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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• The role of social media is critical because it helps to spread cognitive dissonance by connecting thought leaders and activists to ordinary citizens rapidly expanding the network of people who become willing to take action.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Media, People, Leader

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• The beauty of social media is that it will point out your company's flaws; the key questions is how quickly you address these flaws.

  Erik Qualman

  Keys, Media, Addresses

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• We cannot measure, what it is we do not know to value.

  Brian Solis

  Knows, Values

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• The purpose of me touring and writing is to create music and nothing else. Its really not about updating people on social media about things that have nothing to do about music.

  Ari Hest

  Writing, People, Purpose

  Source: mousertime.blogspot.com

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• It definitely feels like I'm sort of reaching people through social media in the right kind of way. I feel like I've been late to the game with the whole Facebook/Twitter thing, because I always thought it was cheap. But, when I started really using it and trying to be myself when using it, which is the hardest thing. I feel like a lot of people are really responding to that.

  Graham Colton

  People, Trying, Kind

  Source: mousertime.blogspot.com

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• Networking is not about hunting. It is about farming. It's about cultivating relationships. Don't engage in 'premature solicitation'. You'll be a better networker if you remember that.

  Ivan Misner

  Hunting, Networking, Remember

  Ivan Misner, Hazel Walker, Frank De Raffelle Jr (2012). “Business Networking and Sex: Not What You Think”, p.108, Entrepreneur Press

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• The Social Wishlist on Facebook is a great example of everything right about social media.

  Denis Leary

  Media, Example, Social

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• Twitter represents a collective collaboration that manifests our ability to unconsciously connect kindred voices through the experiences that move us. As such, Twitter is a human seismograph.

  Brian Solis

  Moving, Voice, Collaboration

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