101 Amazing Quotes About Marketing Pt.1

Stretched over two posts this week, we have 101 useful marketing quotes from some of the brightest marketing minds out there. Read the first 50 of Pt.1 here for some great advice on how to tackle your campaigns like a pro!

The First 50 Of 101 Amazing Marketing Quotes

If you wait until there is another case study in your industry, you will be too late! – Seth Godin (Author Of Permission Marketing)

People share, read and generally engage more with any type of content when it’s surfaced through friends & people they know and trust. – Malorie Lucich (FaceBook Spokesperson)

No matter what, the very first piece of Social Media Real Estate I’d start with is a blog. – Chris Brogan (New Marketing Labs)

Instead of one-way interruption, Web marketing is about delivering useful content at just the right moment that a buyer needs it. – David Meerman Scott (Author Of The New Rules Of Marketing & PR)

Increasingly, mass marketing is turning into a mass of niches. – Chris Anderson (Author Of The Longtail)

When you enchant people, your goal is not to make money from them or to get them to do what you want, but to fill them with great delight. – Guy Kawasaki (Former Chief Evangelist of Apple)

Remarkable social media content and great sales copy are pretty much the same – plain spoken words designed to focus on the needs of the reader, listener, or viewer. – Brian Clark (Copy Blogger)

Next time you hear a Social Media myth, question it, ask for the proof, and ask out loud. – Dan Zarella (HubSpot)

Bring the best of your Authentic Self to every opportunity. – John Jantsch (Author Of Duct Tape Marketing)

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 (Pro Blogger)

Your culture is your brand. – Tony Hsieh (CEO Zappos)

Focus on the core problem your business solves & put out lots of content & enthusiasm, & ideas about how to solve that problem. – Laura Fitton (OneForty.com)

You can’t just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they’ll want something new. – Steve Jobs (CEO of Apple)

The biggest mistake we see companies make when they first hit Twitter is to think about it as a channel to push out information. – Tim O’Reilly & Sarah Milstein (The Twitter Book)

Clarity trumps persuasion. – Dr.Flint McGlaughlin (Director, Meclabs)

Don’t be afraid to get creative & experiment with your marketing. – Mike Volpe (HubSpot)

You need the kind of objectivity that makes you forget everything you’ve heard, clear the table, and do a factual study like a scientist would. – Steve Wozniak (Co-Founder Of Apple)

Make the customer the hero of your story. – Ann Handley (Marketing Profs)

The Internet has turned what used to be a controlled, one way message into a real time dialogue with millions. – Danielle Sacks (Fast Company)

In todays information age of marketing and Web 2.0, a company website is the key to their entire business. – Marcus Sheridan (Author Of The Sales Lion Blog)

The way you can understand all of the Social Media is as the creation of a new kind of public space. – Danah Boyd (Social Media Researcher – Microsoft)

Presentations are the most amazing persuasion tool available in organizations today – Nancy Duarte (CEO – Duarte Design)

What makes content engaging is relevancy. You need to connect the contact information with the content information. – Gail Goodman (Constant Contact)

Give them quality, that’s the best kind of advertising – Milton Hershey (Founder Of Hersheys Chocolate)

More contact means more sharing of information, gossiping, exchanging, engaging – in short, more word of mouth. – Gary Vaynerchuck (Author Of The Thank You Economy)

Think about what a user is going to type. – Matt Cutts (Google)

For corporate marketers pod-casting is low hanging fruit. – Paul Gillin (The New Influencers)

Video is just one part of a marketing plan. It fits certain messages & people better than others. – Steve Garfield (Author Of Get Seen)

Instituations that once had to go through media to deliver information are now themselves media – Andrew Nachison (Founder We Media)

Before you create anymore “great content”, figure out how you ae going to market it first. – Joe Pulizzi & Newt Barrett (Authors Of Get Content, Get Customers)

If you have more money than brains, you should focus on outbound marketing, If you have more brains than money, you should focus on inbound marketing. – Guy Kawasaki (Former Chief Evangelist Of Apple)

People shop and learn in a whole new way compared to just a few years ago, so marketers need to adapt or risk extinction. – Brian Halligan (Co-Author Of Inbound Marketing)

Understand why and how your audience uses technology and then start trying to align your communications efforts. – Brian Reich & Dan Solomon (Authors Of Media Rules)

Audiences everywhere are tough, they don’t have time to be bored or brow beaten by orthodox, old fashioned advertising. – Craig Davis

The attention economy is not growing, which means we have to grab the attention that someone else has today. – Brent Leary (Co-Founder of CRM Essentials)

We have embarked upon the world’s largest and longest cocktail party, and every issue imaginable is up for grabs. – Geoffrey Moore (Author Of Dealing With Darwin)

Social Media are tools, Real Time is a mindset. – David Meerman Scott (Author Of The New Rules Of PR & Marketing)

Increasingly, search is our mechanism for how we understand ourselves, our world, and our place within it. – John Battelle (Founder, Federated Media Publishing)

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing about. – Benjamin Franklin

Search, a marketing method that didn’t exist a decade ago, provides the most efficient and inexpensive way for businesses to find leads. – John Battelle (Founder, Federated Media Publishing)

For the past 10 years, corporations have been trained that they should use all the different media… But the internet is becoming the umbrella. – Larry Weber (Author Of Marketing To The Social Web)

Doing well with blogging is not about writing one key post, it is about performing day after day and helping a few people at a time. – Aaron Wall (Author Of The SEO Book Blog)

You can’t expect to just write and have visitors come to you – that’s too passive. – Anita Campbell (Founder & CEO Of Smallbiztrends.com)

Word of mouth marketing has always been important. Today, it’s more important than ever because of the power of the internet. – Joe Pulizzi & Newt Barrett (Authors Of Get Content, Get Customers)

In a way, the web is like your Hollywood agent: It speaks for you whenever you are not around to comment – Chris Brogan & Julien Smith (Authors Of  Trust Agents)

For business, our internet love affair was a gift from the gods. – Gary Vaynerchuk (Author Of The Thank You Economy)

Corporations must answer questions about why they should be in the blogosphere. Small Businesses need to answer questions about why they shouldn’t. – Paul Gillin (Author Of The New Influencers)

Good content should be at the heart of your strategy, but it is equally important to keep the display context of that content in mind as well. – Tim Frick (Author Of Return On Engagement)

No Matter what or who’m we’re talking about, from movies to chiropractors to books to financial planners, the consumer hankers after specialization. – Susan Friedmann (Author Of Riches In Niches)