Top 81 Social Media Quotes

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Social media is a great way to stay in  contact with friends from all around the world. With that in mind, check out the top 81 social media quotes.

#81 – 80. Social Media Quotes

81. With Social Media so prevalent we are all extremely visible. Your prospective clients, your peers and your competition can drill as deep as they wish searching, reading and gathering information online about you and posted by you without you ever knowing who’s searching. Depending on what they find, your prospects may choose to do business with you or not. – Mari Smith

80. Don’t worry; skills are cheap, passion is priceless. If you’re passionate about your content and you know it and do it better than anyone else, even with few formal business skills you have the potential to create a million-dollar business. – Gary Vee

#79 – 70. Social Media Quotes

79. Generation C: Describes the growing group of consumers that is obsessed with generating their own ‘content’ — expressing creative urges by snapping photos with camera phones, producing movies on home computers for general distribution or running personal blogs. Of course, just because the masses ‘can’ still doesn’t make it ‘art.’ — BuzzWhack

78. 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 Elliot Zuckerberg

77. Successful companies in social media function more like entertainment companies, publishers, or party planners than as traditional advertisers. — Erik Qualman

76. Social media is not just an activity; it is an investment of valuable time and resources. — Sean Gardner

75. Twitter is a great place to tell the world what you’re thinking before you’ve had a chance to think about it. – Chris Pirillo

74. Social Media puts the public into PR and the market into marketing. – Chris Brogan

73. Make everything a conversation instead of a one-way megaphone, and go out of your way to be interesting and valuable. — Kelsey Childress

72. What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas; what happens on Twitter stay on Google forever! – Jure Klepic

71. 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

70. 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 Qualmann

#69 – 60. Social Media Quotes

69. Social Media is about the people! Not about your business. Provide for the people and the people will provide for you. – Matt Goulart

68. 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 service, They grow their businesses and brands by involving themselves in their own communities. – Marsha Collier

67. Social media is not a media. The key is to listen, engage, and build relationships. – David Alston

66. intexticated adj. Preoccupied by reading or sending text messages, particularly while driving a car. — WordSpy.com

65. Pushing a company agenda on social media is like throwing water balloons at a porcupine. – Erik Qualman

64. Social media is not just a spoke on the wheel of marketing. It’s becoming the way entire bicycles are built. — Ryan Lilly

63. Every year the Web offers up hundreds of new experimental services and ideas, and while you don’t have time to try them all, if you’re able to pinpoint the applications with the most traction, your early adopter status will come with long-term rewards. – Jennifer Van Grove

62. Being yourself is the only way how to stand out in today’s crowded market. So what’s YOUR story? – Magnetic Silvia

61. A brand is no longer what we tell the consumer it is — it is what consumers tell each other it is. — Scott Cook

60. The qualities that make Twitter seem insane and half-baked are what makes it so powerful. – Jonathan Zittrain

#59 – 50. Social Media Quotes

59. New marketing is about the relationships, not the medium. – Ben Grossman

58. When you say it, it’s marketing. When they say it, it’s social proof. – Andy Crestodina

57. You are what you tweet. – Alex Tew

56. 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

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

54. Focus on how to be social, not on how to do social. – Jay Baer

53. If content is king, then conversion is queen. – John Munsell

52. 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

51. Social media is the ultimate equaliser. It gives a voice and a platform to anyone willing to engage. – Amy Jo Martin

50. Innovation needs to be part of your culture. Consumers are transforming faster than we are, and if we don’t catch up, we’re in trouble. – Ian Schafer

#49 – 40. Social Media Quotes

49. Focus on how to be social, not how to do social. — Jay Baer

48. Engage rather than sell … Work as a co-creator, not a marketer. – Tom H. C. Anderson

47. We’re still in the process of picking ourselves up off the floor after witnessing firsthand that a 16-year-old YouTuber can deliver us three times the traffic in a couple of days that some excellent traditional media coverage has over five months. — Michael Fox

46. People align with movements they can believe in, and it is the human, intellectual, and financial investment in genuine content that defines experiences. – Brian Solis

45. Don’t fix the marketing first, fix your product. Once you’ve got a good product to talk about, the marketing’s going to flow from that. – Scott Monty

44. Monitor, engage, and be transparent; these have always been the keys to success in the digital space. – Dallas Lawrence

43. Unless you’re Paris Hilton, no video is guaranteed to go viral. A guide for creating a successful viral campaign is as effective as a tutorial on how to win the lottery. — Christian Haas

42. Once you can understand where the conversation is, who leads, the type of voices and the best place for you to add your voice, you can then start becoming a more active participant. – Mitch Joel

41. Conversations are happening whether you are there or not.- Kim Garst

40. It took us a few years of staring at road kill on the information superhighway to realize that not every fact is ‘information.’ Even relevant and timely content falls with a thud if it’s, well, dull. — Mike Houdeshell

#39 – 30. Social Media Quotes

39. Social networks aren’t about Web sites. They’re about experiences.- Mike DiLorenzo

38. Find your sweet spot: the intersection between what you know and what your customers need to know. – Joe Pulizzi

37. Privacy is dead, and social media hold the smoking gun. – Pete Cashmore

36. If you’re running a brand page about athletic shoes, are they really here to find out about your corporate 5K race? — Mike Houdeshell

35. Mullet strategy n. A website design where a site’s main or most visible pages are professionally written, edited, and laid out, while the rest of the site relies on content supplied by volunteers and site visitors. — WordSpy.com

34. Our head of social media is the customer. – McDonald’s

33. How can you squander even one more day not taking advantage of the greatest shifts of our generation? How dare you settle for less when the world has made it so easy for you to be remarkable? – Seth Godin

32. Why are we trying to measure social media like a traditional channel anyway? Social media touches every facet of business and is more an extension of good business ethics. – Erik Qualman

31. Content is fire. Social media is gasoline. – Jay Baer

30. When I wrote ‘The World Is Flat,’ I said the world is flat. Yeah, we’re all connected. Facebook didn’t exist; Twitter was a sound; the cloud was in the sky; 4G was a parking place; LinkedIn was a prison; applications were what you sent to college; and Skype, for most people, was a typo. — Thomas Friedman

#29 – 20. Social Media Quotes

29. The value of being connected and transparent is so high that the roadbumps of privacy issues are much lower in actual experience than people’s fears. — Reid Hoffman

28. Social media allows big companies to act small again – Jay Baer

27. Please Repeat: Influence is NOT Popularity! – Brian Solis

26. Conversations among the members of your marketplace happen whether you like it or not. Good marketing encourages the right sort of conversations.- Seth Godin

25. IMglish or imglish: The secret and evolving language of Instant Messaging. The collection of abbreviations, acronyms and shorthand that allows IMers to say whole sentences in three to five letters — and keep parents and employers in the dark. — BuzzWhack

24. If what you are doing doesn’t add value, they won’t listen to you. – Marcus Sheridan

23. ‘I get 100% open rate’, said no one ever. – Mari Smith

22. mouse potato: A person who spends hour upon hour staring into his/her computer screen. Increasingly couch potatoes are giving way to mouse potatoes. The TV Generation is losing to the Digital Generation. We’re not sure this is really an improvement. — BuzzWhack

21. 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

20. When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good place. – Mark Zuckerberg

#19 – 10. Social Media Quotes

19. Social media’s like a bakery. You can lose credibility, goodwill and fans by serving up stale and boring content. — Mike Houdeshell

18. Transparency may be the most disruptive and far-reaching innovation to come out of social media. — Paul Gillin

17. 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

16. You as a brand have to be completely confident about your position, because you will get criticism. You will have a negative reaction. If you didn’t get a negative reaction, that means you’re standing neutral and you have no point of view. Who wants to participate in that? – Frank Cooper

15. Social notworking pp. Surfing a social networking site instead of working. Also: social not-working — social notworker n. — WordSpy.com

14. Social Media can provide a conversational extension to a B2B company’s nurturing programs. Social Media gives us the opportunity to humanize our communications and make our companies more approachable.- Ardath Albee

13. Activate your fans, don’t just collect them like baseball cards. – Jay Baer

12. Today people don’t trust companies. One of the things marketers want to do is to humanize their brand. What better way to do it than put a live person in front of them? – Jackie Huba

11. Social marketing eliminates the middlemen, providing brands the unique opportunity to have a direct relationship with their customers. – Bryan Weiner

10. 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

#9 – 1. Social Media Quotes

9. If you’re looking for the next big thing, and you’re looking where everyone else is, you’re looking in the wrong place. – Mark Cuban

8. There are no magic wands, no hidden tracks, and no secret handshakes that can bring you immediate success, but with time, energy and determination you can get there.- Darren Rowse

7. 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

6. Don’t say anything online that you wouldn’t want plastered on a billboard with your face on it. — Erin Bury

5. 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

4. Social media policies will never be able to cure stupid. – Nichole Kelly

3. Most bloggers who rise above the clutter are quite often prolific –they work hard, not just writing content but networking, engaging in Social Media and more.- Darren Rowse

2. 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

1. Social media is about sociology and psychology more than technology. — Brian Solis

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