In the world of digital marketing, there is never enough knowledge or insight to help you with your marketing efforts. Everyone needs help one way or another; whether it’s with social media marketing, content marketing, or influencer marketing. That’s why we compiled a list of the best marketing quotes and insight from the top influencers. Let’s dig into our top 50…
1. Sean Gardner (@2morrowknight) “Social media is not just an activity; it is an investment of valuable time and resources. Surround yourself with people who not just support you and stay with you, but inform your thinking about ways to WOW your online presence.”
2. Jessica Northey (@jessicanorthey) “In Social Media the “squeaky wheel” gets the oil. You have to put yourself out there, to find people who will relate or even debate with you, depending on what you are looking for.”
3. Aaron Lee (@askaaronlee) “These days, social media waits for no one. If you’re LATE for the party, you’ll probably be covered by all the noise and you might not be able to get your voice across. It could only mean that if you want to be heard by the crowd, you have to be fast; and on social media, that means you have to be REALLY fast.”
4. Paul Barron. (@paulbarron) “I use social media as an idea generator, trend mapper and strategic compass for all of our online business ventures.”
5. Lori Ruff. (@loriruff) “Social media is here. It’s not going away; not a passing fad. Be where your customers are: in social media.”
6. Pam Dyer. (@pamdyer) “Social media is inherently a selfish medium.”
7. Laura Fitton (@pistachio) “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.”
8. Bonnie Sainsbury (@bsainsbury) “Social media will help you build up loyalty of your current customers to the point that they will willingly, and for free, tell others about you.”
9. Neal Schaffer (@nealschaffer) “The overarching problem is that everyone sees and uses social media from a different perspective.”
10. Erik Qualman (@equalman) “Successful companies in social media function more like entertainment companies, publishers, or party planners than as traditional advertisers.”
11. Warren Whitlock (@warrenwhitlock) “My goal is to spark something within the reader and allow it to initiate an idea they then can grow.”
12. Dan Schawbel (@danschawbel) “What makes you weird, makes you unique and therefore makes you stand out.”
13. Ann Handley. (@marketingprofs) “Good content always has an objective; it’s created with intent. It therefore carries triggers to action.”
14. Lilach Bullock (@Lilachbullock) “Do not write BS if you don’t know what to write! It’s as simple as that.”
15. Steve Farnsworth (@steveology) “Trustworthy content has a balanced point of view. It asks and answers the right questions. It doesn’t love itself. It tries to inform and educate.”
16. Jeff Barrett (@barrettall) “Companies are looking to be quicker with content, provide faster approval and be able to capitalize on the conversation and content of the moment.”
17. Marsha Collier (@Marshacollier) “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.”
18. Susan Cooper (@buzzedition) “Engage, Enlighten, Encourage and especially…just be yourself! Social media is a community effort, everyone is an asset.”
19. Lee Odden (@leeodden) “Content is the reason search began in the first place.”
20. Rebecca Lieb (@lieblink) “Content is the atomic particle of all digital marketing.”
21. Kim Garst (@kimgarst) “Legendary service is one of the criteria that sets one company apart from its competitors. It’s the mark of a truly authentic company – you just can’t fake caring!”
22. Calvin Lee (@mayhemstudios) “Be genuine. Be nice. Know your audience. Articles on web design, color, inspiration and basics of design really help them. Novice articles are the best — my audience doesn’t benefit from intermediate or advanced design topics.”
23. Jonathan Naferrete (@jonathan360) “It is unacceptable to just download a picture and upload the picture as a pin with no credit given.”
24. Christine Korda (@christinekorda) “This is a learning process and sometimes you have to fall in order to learn things.”
25. Lori Taylor (@lorirtaylor) “Going viral is not an outcome; it’s a happening. Sometimes it happens; sometimes it doesn’t. Just remember, fans are vanity and sales are sanity.”
26. Seth Godin (@ThisIsSethsBlog) “Making promises and keeping them is a great way to build a brand.” – Seth Godin
27. Jonah Sachs (@jonahsachs) “Your brand is a story unfolding across all customer touch points.”
28. Don Crowther (@don_crowther) “People want to do business with you because you help them get what they want. They don’t do business with you to help you get what you want.”
29. Duane Forrester (@DuaneForrester) “SEO is a marketing function for sure, but it needs to be baked into a product, not slapped on like icing after the cake is baked.”
30. Wendy Piersall (@emom) "Google only loves you when everyone else loves you first." - Wendy Piersall
31. Aaron Wall (@aaronwall) "The Success of a page should be measured by one criteria: Does the visitor do what you want them to do?"
32. Jill Whalen (@jillwhalen) "Good SEO work only gets better over time. It's only search engine tricks that need to keep changing when the ranking algorithms change."
33. Rand Fishkin (@randfish) "In 2004, good SEO made you remarkable on the web. In 2014, good SEO is a result of being remarkable on the web."
34. Scott Sorokin (@ssorokin) “Banners have 99 problems and a click ain’t one.”
35. Jonathan Perelman (@jperelman) “Content is king, but distribution is queen. And she wears the pants.”
36. Avinash Kaushik (@avinash) “Never let ads write checks your website can’t cash.”
37. Jim Kukral (@JimKukral) “Take two ideas and put them together to make one new idea. After all, what is a Snuggie but a mutation of a blanket and a robe?”
38. David Ogilvy - “Never write an advertisement which you wouldn’t want your family to read. You wouldn’t tell lies to your own wife. Don’t tell them to mine.”
39. Michael Brenner (@BrennerMichael) “Behind every piece of bad content is an executive who asked for it.”
40. Albert Einstein - “Creativity is intelligence having fun.”
41. Benjamin Franklin - “Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing about.”
42. John Quincy Adams “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you’re a leader.”
43. Oscar Wilde - “Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken.”
44. Henry Ford - “Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.”
45. Walt Disney - “It’s quite fun to do the impossible.”
46. Vince Lombardi - “Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.”
47. Albert Einstein - “Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.”
48. Vincent Van Gogh - “If you hear a voice within you say, ‘You cannot paint,’ then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.”
49. Theodore Roosevelt - “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.”
50. Steve jobs - "Great things in business are never done by one person. They're done by a team of people."
51. Yoda - “Do or do not. There is no try.”
52. John Stumpf - “I never set out to be CEO. I always set out to be a good team member, a good colleague.”
53. Michael Scott, The Office "The people that you work with are, when you get down to it, your very best friends."
54. Oscar Wilde - "The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one."
55. Casey Stengel - "The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate you away from those who are still undecided." Casey Stengel
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