Here’s the best collection of 190 social media marketing quotes.
Social Media Marketing Quotes
1. Content is king. – Bill Gates
2. Failure is an option. – Unknown
3. Think like a customer. – Paul Gillin
4. Your culture is your brand. – Tony Hsieh
5. You have to build engagement – Unknown
6. Stop selling. Start helping. – Zig Ziglar
7. Going viral is not an outcome – Unknown
8. Social media is a contact sport. – Margaret Molloy
9. Content: there is no easy button. – Scott Abel
10. Google is the new corporate homepage. – Jeremiah Owyang
11. Create something people want to share. – John Jantsch
12. The best marketing strategy ever: CARE. – Gary Vaynerchuk
13. Don’t build links. Build relationships. – Rand Fishkin
14. What makes content engaging is relevancy. – Gail Goodman
15. This is the era of less is more with SEO. – Adam Audette
16. Content is fire. Social media is gasoline. – Jay Baer
17. Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. – Leonardo Da Vinci
18. Know thyself. Know the customer. Innovate. – Beth Comstock
19. Content is fire, social media is gasoline. – Jay Baer
20. Nothing begets creativity like constraints. – Christopher Mims
21. Social media creates communities, not markets. – Don Schultz
22. The consumer is not a moron; she is your wife. – David Ogilvy
23. The importance of gratitude is never forgotten. – Deborah Lee
24. Great Execution is the Ultimate Differentiator. – Margaret Molloy
25. The best marketing doesn’t feel like marketing. – Tom Fishburne
26. The best marketing doesn’t feel like marketing. – Tom Fishburne
27. Copy is a direct conversation with the consumer. – Shirley Polykoff
28. People spend money when and where they feel good. – Walt Disney
29. The future of content marketing is in your hands. – David Hahn
30. Empower your readers with social sharing buttons. – Mike Stelzner
31. Never let ads write checks your website can’t cash. – Avinash Kaushik
32. If you build it… you may still need Google AdWords. – Jennifer Mesenbrink
33. Marketing is really just about sharing your passion. – Michael Hyatt
34. Decide the effect you want to produce in your reader. – Robert Collier
35. Sell the problem you solve. Not the product you make. – Unknown
36. Make the prospect a more informed buyer with content. – Robert Simon
37. People don’t buy what you do, they buy why you do it. – Simon Sinek
38. The most powerful element in advertising is the truth. – William Bernbach
39. Content is the reason search began in the first place. – Lee Odden
40. Less is more. Keeping it simple takes time and effort. – Jeff Bullas
41. I don’t want to go viral, I want to set hearts on fire. – Coco J. Ginger
42. Give them quality. That is the best kind of advertising. – Milton Hershey
43. You cannot buy engagement. You have to build engagement. – Tara-Nicholle Nelson
44. Content is the atomic particle of all digital marketing. – Rebecca Lieb
45. Content is anything that adds value to the readers life. – Avinash Kaushik
46. Google only loves you when everyone else loves you first. – Wendy Piersall
47. Not viewing your email marketing as content is a mistake. – Chris Baggott
48. New marketing is about the relationships, not the medium. – Ben Grossman
49. Make your marketing so useful people would pay you for it. – Jay Baer
50. My rule of thumb is build a site for a user, not a spider. – Dave Naylor
51. You can’t push your sales messages on your fans too often. – Andrea Vahl
52. Amazing things will happen when you listen to the consumer. – Jonathan Midenhall
53. If great content is the hero, then banners are the villain. – Michael Brenner
54. Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation. – Milan Kundera
55. Your ultimate consumers are your users, not search engines. – Google
56. Google will know that you are hungry for sushi before you do. – Ben Kunz
57. Marketing without data is like driving with your eyes closed. – Dan Zarrella
58. Today it’s important to be present, be relevant and add value. – Nick Besbeas
59. Focus on the present… Its the best gift you can give yourself. – Carrie Kerpen
60. Today it’s important to be present, be relevant and add value. – Nick Besbeas
61. A blog is only as interesting as the interest shown in others. – Lee Odden
62. Connect, create meaning, make a difference, matter, be missed. – Seth Godin
63. The cost of being wrong is less than the cost of doing nothing. – Seth Godin
64. The brands that can connect with client in a real way will win. – Gary
65. What you do after you create your content is what truly counts. – Gary Vaynerchuk
66. Sell-sell-sell sales methods simply do not work on social media. – Kim Garst
67. Content is king, but marketing is queen, and runs the household. – Gary Vaynerchuk
68. Never forget social media is for reach but email is for revenue. – Bryan Eisenberg
69. Content should ask people to do something and reward them for it. – Lee Odden
70. Your brand is a story unfolding across all customer touch points. – Jonah Sachs
71. Leverage the strength that you have: that no one else can be you. – Todd Wheatland
72. If you’re a good marketing person, you have to be a little crazy. – Jim Metcalf
73. If your content isn’t driving conversation, you’re doing it wrong. – Dan Roth
74. Don’t be afraid to get creative and experiment with your marketing. – Mike Volpe
75. The key is, no matter what story you tell, make your buyer the hero. – Chris Brogan
76. If you can’t explain it to a 6-year old, you don’t know it yourself. – Albert Einstein
77. Social media is about sociology and psychology more than technology. – Brian Solis
78. Too often, feeling intimidated becomes our excuse not to be awesome. – Scott Stratten
79. Write good content about stuff that you love. Readers will find you. – Michael Arrington
80. As social media grows and matures, showing a return becomes critical. – Heidi Cohen
81. We’re all learning here; the best listeners will end up the smartest. – Josh Bernoff
82. Strong customer relationships drive sales, sustainability, and growth. – Tom Cates
83. Content is king, but engagement is queen, and the lady rules the house! – Mari Smith
84. Care about your customers more than about yourself, and you’ll do well. – Derek Sivers
85. Content Marketing is no longer a numbers game. It’s a game of relevance. – Jason Miller
86. Brand is just a perception, and perception will match reality over time. – Elon Musk
87. Nobody reads ads. People read what interests them. Sometimes, it’s an ad. – Howard Gossage
88. Don’t find customers for your products, find products for your customers. – Seth Godin
89. Traditional marketing talks at people. Content marketing talks with them. – Doug Kessler
90. Content Marketing is not simply a campaign or a tactic, it’s a commitment. – Valerie Uhlir
91. Find your spirit, and no challenge will keep you from achieving your goals. – Christopher Penn
92. If you are an artist, learn science. If you are a scientist, cultivate art. – Karin Timpone
93. Nothing influences people more than a recommendation from a trusted friend. – Mark Zuckerberg
94. Getting the Like is easy. It’s a light action. Anything else requires trust. – Jon Loomer
95. Getting the Like is easy. It’s a light action. Anything else requires trust. – Jon Loomer
96. Build something 100 people love, not something 1 million people kind of like. – Brian Chesky
97. An ad is finished only when you no longer can find a single element to remove. – Robert Fleege
98. Advertising brings in customers, but word-of-mouth brings in the best customers. – Jonah Berger
99. Marketing is no longer about the stuff you make, but about the stories you tell. – Seth Godin
100. You can’t expect to just write and have visitors come to you. That’s too passive. – Anita Campbell
101. These days, people want to learn before they buy, be educated instead of pitched. – Brian Clark
102. Good content isn’t about good storytelling. It’s about telling a true story well. – Ann Handley
103. Good content isn’t about good storytelling. It’s about telling a true story well. – Ann Handley
104. The internet affords a level of relationship with consumers hitherto unfathomable. – Lucas Donat
105. This is a learning process and sometimes you have to fall in order to learn things. – Christine Korda
106. Marketers need to build digital relationships and reputation before closing a sale. – Chris Brogan
107. Nobody counts the number of ads you run; they just remember the impression you make. – Bill Bernbach
108. You can never go wrong by investing in communities and the human beings within them. – Pam Moore
109. Blogging and traditional media work together. Twitter complements traditional media. – Evan Williams
110. Running with the herd is not always a great idea; be unique, and the links will come. – Debra Mastaler
111. Content builds relationships. Relationships are built on trust. Trust drives revenue. – Andrew Davis
112. If people believe they share values with a company, they will stay loyal to the brand. – Howard Schultz
113. You can’t just place a few Buy buttons on your website and expect your visitors to buy. – Neil Patel
114. Authenticity, honesty, and personal voice underlie much of what’s successful on the Web. – Rick Levine
115. Content is not king, but a president elected by the votes of those whom it aims to rule. – Raheel Farooq
116. Our jobs as marketers are to understand how the customer wants to buy and help them do so. – Bryan Eisenberg
117. Part of why you love your parents is because they loved you first, brands need to do that. – Gary Vaynerchuk
118. Good marketing makes the company look smart. Great marketing makes the customer feel smart. – Joe Chernov
119. If you want to continually grow your blog, you need to learn to blog on a consistent basis. – Neil Patel
120. The paradox is the more info you give away, the more people will buy what you have to give. – Brian Clark
121. Before you create any more ‘great content,’ figure out how you are going to market it first. – Joe Pulizzi
122. Today it’s not about ‘get the traffic’ - it’s about ‘get the targeted and relevant traffic.’ – Adam Audette
123. The keys to brand success are self-definition, transparency, authenticity and accountability. – Simon Mainwaring
124. The man who stops advertising to save money is like the man who stops the clock to save time. – Thomas Jefferson
125. Our jobs as marketers are to understand how the customer wants to buy and help them to do so. – Bryan Eisenberg
126. The next time you hear a social media myth, question it. Ask for the proof, and ask out loud. – Dan Zarrella
127. You have to start with the basic premise that you need to know what your competition is doing. – Guy Kawasaki
128. Most of us have experienced wow moments. We just haven’t taken time to think deeply about them. – Michael Hyatt
129. Good marketers see consumers as complete human beings with all the dimensions real people have. – Jonah Sachs
130. We need to stop interrupting what people are interested in and be what people are interested in. – David Beebe
131. A brand is no longer what we tell the consumer it is—it is what consumers tell each other it is. – Scott Cook
132. Humans are not ideally set up to understand logic; they are ideally set up to understand stories. – Roger C. Schank
133. Thinking that every idea and piece of content you create must be the first of its kind is a trap. – Sujan Patel
134. Blogging is good for your career. A well-executed blog sets you apart as an expert in your field. – Penelope Trunk
135. On average, 8 out of 10 people will read your headline copy, but only 2 out 10 will read the rest. – Brian Clark
136. The secret to getting results from your social networking is to act like a member, not a marketer. – Mari Smith
137. A brand is no longer what we tell the consumer it is - it is what consumers tell each other it is. – Scott Cook
138. It’s a good idea to understand how to work [Bing and Google] for maximum SEO and ranking benefit. – Debra Mastaler
139. Conversation with customers will increase sales, even if the product or service is never mentioned. – George Farris
140. Marketing’s job is never done. It’s about perpetual motion. We must continue to innovate every day. – Beth Comstock
141. People don’t buy what you do, they buy why you do it. – Simon Sinek, author and marketing consultant – Unknown
142. Content marketing is like a first date. If you only talk about yourself, there won’t be a second one. – David Beebe
143. The Internet makes money for you when you build something that is real and when it matters to people! – Darren Rowse
144. The objective is not to make your links appear natural; the objective is that your links are natural. – Matt Cutts
145. Marketing is telling the world you’re a rock star. Content Marketing is showing the world you are one. – Robert Rose
146. There are tons of different factors that go into ranking well, but the biggest is high-quality content. – David Sinick
147. It’s much easier to double your business by doubling your conversion rate than by doubling your traffic. – Jeff Eisenberg
148. Your top of the funnel content must be intellectually divorced from your product but emotionally wed to it. – Joe Chernov
149. Incorporate easy email marketing strategies with your Facebook efforts to see bigger results (aka profits!). – Amy Porterfield
150. Every trackable interaction creates a data-point, and every data-point tells a piece of the customer’s story. – Paul Roetzer
151. Instead of using technology to automate processes, think about using technology to enhance human interaction. – Tony Zambito
152. A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well. – Jeff Bezos
153. The internet has turned what used to be a controlled, one-way message into a real-time dialogue with millions. – Danielle Sacks
154. In 2004, good SEO made you remarkable on the web. In 2014, good SEO is a result of being remarkable on the web. – Rand Fishkin
155. Make your marketing so useful people would pay you for it. – Jay Baer, author & inspirational marketing speaker – Unknown
156. Our digital future is about enabling better productivity and decision making to enjoy a better quality of life. – Yacine Baroudi
157. I’ve learned that any fool can write a bad ad, but that it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one. – Leo Burnett
158. The future of SEO is here: understanding and marketing to specific and defined audiences through search engines. – Adam Audette
159. Your personal brand is a promise to your clients… a promise of quality, consistency, competency, and reliability. – Jason Hartman
160. Word of mouth can be as important, if not more important, for neighborhood businesses as traditional advertising. – Ekaterina Walter
161. When people feel insecure about something, they look around for validation. Show them that other people trust you. – Francisco Rosales
162. Start an editorial calendar that everyone involved in your blog (writers, editors, marketing team, etc.) can access. – Kristi Hines
163. The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself. – Peter Drucker
164. Social media is about the people. Not about your business. Provide for the people and the people will provide for you. – Matt Goulart
165. Personally, I am very fond of strawberries and cream, but I have found that for some strange reason, fish prefer worms. – Dale Carnegie
166. 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
167. Where the Internet is about availability of information, blogging is about making information creation available to anyone. – George Siemens
168. Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark. You know what you are doing, but nobody else does. – Steuart Henderson Britt
169. The three essential elements of an effective SEO are effective communication, useful information and high quality backlinks. – SEO Refugee
170. Making money from blogging requires you to do only two things: drive a lot traffic, then maximize the income from that traffic. – John Chow
171. A blog with a business backend (i.e. products to sell and a method to sell them) is the key to a six-figure income as a blogger. – David Risley
172. We are all storytellers. We all live in a network of stories. There isn’t a stronger connection between people than storytelling. – Jimmy Neil Smith
173. I think there’s two ways to make money online. One way is by selling other people’s stuff, the other way is by selling your stuff. – Jeff Walker
174. Companies are rushing headlong into content today, and rightly so. It’s a battle to get noticed online amidst the noise and crowds. – Adam Audette
175. Selling stuff is easy. All you gotta do is give away stuff that makes people happy …and then sell stuff that makes ’em even happier. – Frank Kern
176. 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
177. Don’t settle: Don’t finish crappy books. If you don’t like the menu, leave the restaurant. If you’re not on the right path, get off it. – Chris Brogan
178. Even when you are marketing to your entire audience or customer base, you are still simply speaking to a single human at any given time. – Ann Handley
179. Your personal brand is what people say about you when you are not in the room – remember that. And more importantly, let’s discover why! – Chris Ducker
180. Online is old news. Online in social media is today’s news … Social media is not a subset of the internet. Social media is the internet. – Sean Case
181. Just as you don’t need to be on every single TV channel, I don’t believe a brand needs to be on every single social media in one big way. – Shiv Singh
182. 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
183. I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. – Maya Angelou
184. Just as you don’t need to be on every single TV channel, I don’t believe a brand needs to be on every single social media one in a big way. – Shiv Singh
185. It is essential that marketers dig deeper into search, social, local mobile data to understand how they all work in tandem to impact ranking. – Jim Yu
186. 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
187. Successful companies in social media function more like entertainment companies, publishers, or party planners than as traditional advertisers. – Erik Qualman
188. Going viral is not an outcome; its a happening. Sometimes it happens; sometimes it doesn’t. Just remember, fans are vanity and sales are sanity. – Lori Taylor
189. 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
190. Content marketing is more than a buzzword. It is the hottest trend in marketing because it is the biggest gap between what buyers want and brands produce. – Michael Brenner