101 Amazing Quotes About Marketing Pt.2

So here we are, finally, with Part 2 of the 101 Amazing Quotes About Marketing. These 51 Quotes are a mixture of shared thoughts by many great marketing geniuses.Live by these and you will take your business to the level needed in the competitive world of business.

Amazing Quotes About Marketing

The right people to start video blogging are those with a passion to tell a story. – Steve Garfield (Author Of Get Seen)

I am all for conversations. But you need to have a message. – Renee Blodgett (Blodgett Communications)

Your network is your filter. – Don Tapscott & Anthony D Williams (Authors Of Wikinomics)

When you’ve got people commenting on your stuff or calling you out or challenging you – you have to be prepared to guard yourself from being something that isn’t you – David Armano (Edelman Digital)

No matter your sector, chances are that people are already twittering about your products, your brand, your company or at least your industry. – Tim O’Reilly & Sarah Milstein (The Twitter Book)

What happens online is you are constantly dealing with invisible audiences. – Danah Boyd (Social Media Researcher – Microsoft)

Twitter is not a technology. It’s a conversation and it’s happening with or without you. – Charlene Li (Co-Author Of Groundswell)

To trust agents, hyperlinks are the twenty-first-century equivalent of the name-dropper. – Chris Brogan & Julien Smith (Authors Of Trust Agents)

Good-bye broadcast, Hello, conversation. – Shel Israel (Co-Author Of Naked Conversations)

Marketers need to build digital relationships and reputation before closing a sale. – Chris Brogan (New Marketing Labs)

As you’ve noticed people don’t want to be sold. What people do want is news and information about the things they care about. – Larry Weber (Author Of Marketing To The Social Web)

You wan’t to invent new ideas, not new rules. – Dan Heath (Co Author Of Made To Stick)

Businesses should follow and learn from others successes and failures in order to better understand and predict their own. – Ben Mezrich (Author Of The Accidental Billionaires)

Companies are learning that it’s much better to offer customers a place to give direct feedback at their virtual doorstep than to ignore complaints and let them crop up everywhere – Brian Reich & Dan Solomon (Authors Of Media Rules!)

To be successful and grow your business and revenues, you must match the way you market your products with the way your prospects learn about and shop for your products. – Brian Halligan (Co Author Of Inbound Marketing) 

Smart phones are re-inventing the connections between companies and their customers. – Rich Miner (Co Founder Of Android)

Understand the key factors in the math behind viral marketing, and use those to figure out what it takes to get viral growth. – David Skok (Matrix Partners)

You’ve probably got a device on you that can shoot decent video,  so what’s stopping you? – Steve Garfield (Video Blogger)

Think like a customer – Paul Gillin (Author Of The New Influencers)

Effective engagement is inspired by the empathy that develops simply by being human. – Brian Solis (Author Of Engage)

From Sixdegrees to Friendster to Facebook, Social Networking has become a familiar and ubiquitous part of the Internet. – David Kirkpatrick (Author Of The Facebook Effect)

We’re all learning here; the best listeners will end up the smartest. – Charlene Li & Josh Bernoff (Authors Of Groundswell)

Marketing isn’t magic, there is a Science to it. – Dan Zarrella (Social Media Scientist)

Holding back technology to reserve business models is like allowing blacksmiths to veto the internal combustion engine in order to protect their horseshoes. – Don Tapscott (Wikinomics)

The future of business is social. – Barry Libert (Author Of Social Nation)

Keep your eye out for hot topics and trends. The media is constantly looking for timely stories. – Jim Kukral (Author Of Attention!)

Traditional methods of sales prospecting are grossly inefficient. – Jill Konrath (Author Of Snap Selling)

I can take what I learned from writing articles, educate a new audience with a new channel, and leap frog other companies who aren’t embracing this now. – Brian Carroll (CEO, InTouch) 

By publishing content that shows buyers you understand their problems and can show them how to solve them, you build credibility. – Ardath Albee (Author Of EMarketing Strategies For The Complex Sale)

Already, companies that speak in the language of the pitch, the dog-and-pony show, are no longer speaking to anyone. – The Clue Train Manifesto

Authenticity, honesty and personal voice underlie much of what’s successful on the web. – Rick Levine (Cluetrain Manifesto)

Your organization is becoming hyperlinked. Whether you like it or not. It’s bottom-up; it’s impossible. – David Weinberger (Everything Is Miscellaneous)

When all you’ve got is a hammer, bad service looks like a nail. – Doc Searls (The Cluetrain Manifesto)

Take two ideas and put them together to make one idea. After all, what is a Snuggie but a mutation of a blanket and a robe? – Jim Kukral (Attention!)

Recognize that give away items serve as silent ambassadors, reinforcing your Expert Identity – choose them carefully. – Susan Friedmann (Author Of Riches In Niches)

Money follows Passion – not the other way around. – David Garland (Rise To The Top)

For many businesses, the fear behind their social media reluctance isn’t just fear of failure but of blame and accountability – both individual and collective. – Jay Baer (The Now Revolution)

Companies need to lighten up and take themselves les seriously. They need to get a sense of humor. – The Cluetrain Manifesto

Until Facebook came along, there was hardly anywhere on the public internet where you had to operate with your real name. – David Kirkpatrick (Author Of The Facebook Effect)

By listening, marketing will re-learn how to talk. – Doc Searls (The Cluetrain Manifesto)

Companies need connections to their markets to create long-term loyalty. – Charlene Li & Josh Bernoff (Authors Of Groundswell)

There’s a lot of fear-mongering about “losing control” of your brand online, when, in fact, you’ve got control over as much as you always have: how you present your business and how you act. – Jay Baer (The Now Revolution)

Be passionate about the culture and the business, and remain positive, because it inspires others. – Barry Libert (Author Of Social Nation)

Good is the enemy of great.. The vast majority of good companies remain just that – good, but not great. – Jim Collins (Author Of Good To Great)

Those who build and perpetuate mediocrity…are motivated more by the fear of being left behind. – – Jim Collins (Author Of Good To Great)

One way to sell a consumer something in the future is simply to get his or her permission in advance. – Seth Godin (Author Of Permission Marketing)

In this age of micro-blogging and two second sound bites, almost no one has the attention span, or time, to read more than a few sentences. – Tim Frick (Return On Engagement)

Once you have your questions and stories, map them to the buying process – just as your prospect will experience them. – Ardath Albee (Author Of EMarketing Strategies For The Complex Sale)

What we really need is a mindset shift that will make us relevant to todays consumers, a mindset shift from telling to selling to building relationships. – Jim Stengel (Procter & Gamble)

It no longer makes economic sense to send an advertising message to the many in hopes of persuading the few. – M Lawrence Light (Former Chief Marketing Officer Of McDonalds)

When you break down all the fluff, there are two ways to promote and market your business, dumber, slower and expensive – or faster, smarter and cheaper. – David Garland (Rise To The Top)

There is no black magic to successfully attracting customers via the Web. – Rand Fishkin (Founder, SEOMOZ)