1.) “Social Media is not a media. The key is to listen, engage, and build relationships.” – David Alston
2.) “Social media is about sociology and psychology more than technology.” – Brian Solis
3.) “I use social media as an idea generator, trend mapper, and strategic compass for all of our online business ventures.” – Paul Barron
4.) “Social media is changing the world, and we’re all here witnessing it.” – Ian Somerhalder
5.) “We’re living at a time when attention is the new currency. Those who insert themselves into as many channels as possible look set to capture the most value.” – Pete Cashmore
6.) “It’s a dialogue, not a monologue, and some people don’t understand that. Social Media is more like a telephone than a television.” – Amy Jo Martin
7.) “Think about what people are doing on Facebook today. They’re keeping up with their friends and family, but they’re also building an image and identity for themselves, which in a sense is their brand. They’re connecting with the audience that they want to connect to. It’s almost a disadvantage if you’re not on it now.” – Mark Zuckerberg
8.) “Tie social media marketing to your goals, it’s useless otherwise.” – Dev Chandan
9.) “The first rule of Social Media is that everything changes all the time. What won’t change is the community’s desire to network.” – Kami Huyse
10.) “Social Media is the ultimate equalizer. It gives a voice and a platform to anyone willing to engage.” – Amy Jo Martin
11.) “The most successful marketer becomes part of the lives of their followers. They follow back. They wish happy birthday. They handle problems their customers have with products or services. They grow their businesses and brands by involving themselves in their own communities.” – Marsha Collie
12.) “Influence is NOT Popularity!” – Brian Solis
13.) “I’m very active on social media and see the huge impact it has on engaging with fans and being able to have a voice.” – Stephen Curry
14.) “Social Media is about the people! Not about your business. Provide for the people, and the people will provide you.” – Matt Goulart
15.) “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
Related Blog Post: Killer Girl Boss Quotes To Inspire Your Inner Entrepreneur
16.) “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” – Sean Gardner
17.) “We don’t have a choice on whether we do social media, the question is how well we do it.” – Erik Qualman
18.) “Marketing your presence on social media is as important as creating your presence.” – Sorav Jain
19.) “Social media allows big companies to act small again” – Jay Baer
20.) “All one needs is a computer, a network connection, and a bright spark of initiative and creativity to join the economy.” – Don Tapscott
21.) “Social marketing eliminates the middlemen, providing brands the unique opportunity to have a direct relationship with their customers.” – Bryan Weiner
Related Blog Post: 50 Inspirational Quotes From Successful Female Entrepreneurs To Inspire You
22.) “Don’t use social media to impress people; use it to impact people.” – Dave Willis
23.) “You can never go wrong by investing in communities and the human beings within them.” – Pam Moore
24.) “You don’t need a corporation or a marketing company to brand you now: you can do it yourself. You can establish who you are with a social media following.” – Ray Allen
25.) “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.” – Don Crowther
26.) “Get in where you fit in and then focus on that platform.” – John Lawson
27.) “Social Media requires that business leaders start thinking like small-town shop owners. This means taking the long view and avoiding short-term benchmarks to gauge progress. It means allowing the personality, heart and soul of the people who run all levels of the business to show.” – Gary Vaynerchuk
28.) “Content is fire, social media is gasoline.” – Jay Baer
29.) “The goal of social media is to turn customers into a volunteer marketing army.” – Jay Baer
30.) “Social media is just a buzzword until you come up with a plan.” – Unknown
31.) “A brand is no longer what we tell the consumer it is – it is what consumers tell each other it is.” – Scott Cook
32.) “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
33.) “Engage, Enlighten, Encourage and especially…just be yourself! Social Media is a community effort, everyone is an asset.” – Susan Cooper
34.) “When I hear people debate the ROI of social media, it makes me remember why so many businesses fail. Most businesses are not playing the marathon. They’re playing the sprint. They’re not worried about lifetime value and retention. They’re worried about short-term goals.” – Gary Vaynerchuk
35.) “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
36.) “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.” – Bonnie Sainsbury
37.) “Content is one key to help build relationships and social media.” – Neal Schaffer
38.) “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
39.) “Facebook is a discovery model platform. Its primary goal is to make the audience happy. So you’ll only get ROI if you create quality content for your audience.” – Kelly Hendrickson
40.) “If your stories are all about your products and services, that’s not storytelling. It’s a brochure. Give yourself permission to make the story bigger.” – Jay Baer
41.) “People don’t expect your company to be perfect. They expect you to provide solutions.” – Debra Ellis
42.) “People share, read and generally engage more with any type of content when it’s surfaced through friends and people they know and trust.” – Malorie Lucich
43.) “Your customers are listening in social media. And so are search engines.” – Li Evans
44.) “Your value doesn’t decrease based on someone’s inability to see your worth” – Ted Rubin
45.) “Don’t neglect your brand on the weekend. Social city never sleeps.” – Unknown
46.) “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.” – Steve Farnsworth
47.) “Put your energy into making things that are likable, not some douchey social media strategy.” – Matthew Inman
Please share this article to help other digital marketers 💜
Petra Šranc (CEO of Big Income Paradise) is passionate about teaching female entrepreneurs how to do Social Media Marketing to grow their business online. She also focuses on teaching Social Media content tactics to skyrocket traffic, leads, and sales.
1 Comment on 47 Killer Social Media Marketing Quotes To Inspire You