Marketing Quotes - Page 36

• 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

  Thinking, World, Chance

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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, May, Social

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• Social media isn't the end-all-be-all, but it offers marketers unparalleled opportunity to participate in relevant ways. It also provides a launchpad for other marketing tactics. Social media is not an island. It's a high-power engine on the larger marketing ship.

  Matthew Dickman

  Opportunity, Islands, Media

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• Engaging in an authentic, meaningful conversation with consumers will be the key to marketing success and growth, even if that means acknowledging negative feedback; transparency is paramount.

  Ron Blake

  Meaningful, Keys, Growth

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• New media is ... an amazing form of direct marketing in that you really get a sense of who your customer is, and you also get to know those people who may not be your customers yet but are aspirational and are hoping to be.

  Ivanka Trump

  Media, People, May

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• Your time as the entrepreneur is worth hundreds of dollars an hour. If you are doing tasks you could hire out, those are stopping you from earning that kind of money.

  Jim Palmer

  Entrepreneur, Tasks, Dollars

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• Smart marketing is about help not hype.

  Jay Baer

  Smart, Hype, Helping

  Jay Baer, Darren Root (2014). “Youtility for Accountants: Why Smart Accountants Are Helping, Not Selling (A Penguin Special from Portfolio)”, p.12, Penguin

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• We lose money on signing up the customers where there's some marketing costs associated with giving them a free month. It doesn't much matter whether you make a little bit or lose a little bit.. as you well know, because you lose a ton on every copy of The Washington Post (newspaper).

  Steve Case

  Money, Giving, Cost

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• First of all we had very few users. We might have had a hundred accesses a day. So there was really no demand from the users to add their own links. Things changed over time though as our access rates doubled every month. Through word of mouth on the Net more and more people began using it.

  David Filo

  People, Add, Links

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• I don't take myself seriously all the time; I have to do quirky things, such as helping football teams, moving the ball away from McAllister's foot, getting into The Sun and The Star - because, you know, I like sensationalism, it's a part of what I do.

  Uri Geller

  Football, Stars, Team

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• We react very quickly in the market. We can make quick changes.

  John Ilhan

  Quick Change

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• The company calls it 'downsizing' or 'rightsizing.' My own informal "Name the Layoff" contest produced some other euphemisms: Retroactive Hiring Freeze, Resume Revision Days, Amway Opportunity Time, and Corporation Lite.

  Dale Dauten

  Opportunity, Names, Insightful

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• Unless the schools provide our children with a vision of human possibility that enlightens and empowers them with knowledge and taste, they will simply play their role in someone else's marketing schemes. Unless they understand deeply the sources of our democracy, they will take it for granted and fail to exercise their rights and responsibilities.

  Diane Ravitch

  Children, School, Responsibility

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• I'll name check Radiohead on this--they've done a pretty suave marketing plan on this new record. I think generally it's been a pretty cool thing, but what they've done is used those (sales) numbers in a way that they can spin them anyway they want cause you don't know what they are.

  Trent Reznor

  Thinking, Numbers, Names

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• The thought of the word church and the word marketing in the same sentence makes me sick.

  Rob Bell

  Sick, Church, Sentences

  Rob Bell (2006). “Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith”, p.99, Harper Collins

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• I've been a DJ, janitor, ditch digger, waitress, computer instructor, programmer, mechanic, web developer, clerk, manager, marketing director, tour guide and dorm manager, among other things.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Clerks, Dorms, Directors

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• Mainly, the more faddish and newer stages of life are really just marketing schemes. Tweenhood. The young old. The quarter-life crisis.

  Jill Lepore

  Quarters, Stage, Schemes

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• The true language of commerce is the natural conversation between human beings.

  William C. Brown

  Language, Natural, Conversation

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• When you are a great scholar of stupidity, logics and marketing, you can do practically everthing, from business to trading, from spiritual research to artistic criticism.

  William C. Brown

  Spiritual, Stupidity, Criticism

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• Every major industry was once a growth industry. But some that are now riding a wave of growth enthusiasm are very much in the shadow of decline. Others that are thought of as seasoned growth industries have actually stopped growing. In every case, the reason growth is threatened, slowed, or stopped is not because the market is saturated. It is because there has been a failure of management.

  Theodore Levitt

  Growth, Shadow, Riding

  Theodore Levitt (2008). “Marketing Myopia”, p.1, Harvard Business Press

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• Whatever you do the Daimon Club for sure can do something for you too, of course, and together we can do so much more! Join us!

  William C. Brown

  Together We Can, Clubs, Courses

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• I think this whole division between the genres has more to do with marketing than anything else. It's terrible for the culture of music.

  Tom Waits

  Thinking, Culture, Division

  Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. October 18, 2011.

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• I've got lots of books sitting here that have never been published because nobody could make any marketing sense of them.

  Whitley Strieber

  Book, Sitting

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• I've always viewed myself as a brand. When I started 10 years ago, that was very controversial. 'Marketing' and 'PR' were dirty words for the literary world, but that has changed. Once the book is finished, I want as many people as possible to read it.

  Camilla Lackberg

  Dirty, Book, Years

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• My background is that I've spent a lot of time marketing entertainment. One of the old saws in package goods is you can take something that is popular and you can make it more popular. But if you take something less popular, you can't automatically market it into the same success as something that's already popular.

  Fred Seibert

  Saws, Entertainment, Backgrounds

  "Q&A with Hanna-Barbera president Fred Seibert". Interview with Phil Gallo and Richard Setlowe, variety.com. March 23, 1994.

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