Social Media Marketing Quotes by Ryan Kahn, Seth Godin, Tim Ferriss, David Meerman Scott, Brian Solis, Jeff Bezos and many others.
Content is fire. Social media is gasoline.
Marketing is no longer about the stuff that you male, but about the stories you tell.
Think big and don’t listen to people who tell you it can’t be done. Life’s too short to think small.
Think like a publisher, not a marketer.
Social media is about sociology and psychology more then technology.
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.
Successful companies in social media function more like entertainment companies, publishers, or party planners than as traditional advertisers.
Successful social media marketing is not built on impressions. It is built on relationships
Facebook Fan Pages are email newsletters with smaller pictures.
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas – except the drone.
Don’t settle. Don’t finish crappy books. If you don’t like the menu, leave the restaurant. If you’re not on the right path, get off it.
How dare you settle for less when the world has made it so easy for you to be remarkable?
Privacy is dead, and social media holds the smoking gun.
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.
The best way to engage honestly with the marketplace via Twitter is to never use the words “engage,” “honestly,” or “marketplace.”
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.
You canВ buy attention (advertising). You canВ beg for attention from the media (PR). You canВ bug people one at a time to get attention (sales). Or you canВ earn attention by creating something interesting and valuable and then publishing it online for free.
A brand is no longer what we tell the consumer it is – it is what consumers tell each other it is.
Don’t optimize for conversions, optimize for revenue.
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.
Social media allows big companies to act small again.
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.
