Quotes about Marketing

Business has only two functions - marketing and innovation.

On Facebook, the definition of great content is not the content that makes the most sales, but the content that people most want to share with others.

Marketers want to get their messages in front of you. They must get their messages in front of you, just to survive. The only problem is-do you really want more marketing messages?

The huge irony is that the more the gospel is offered in consumer terms, the more the consumers are disappointed.

A personal brand is relevant to people who sell or create something relevant to who they are as a person. If you're not in that boat, which most people are not, personal branding makes no sense.

Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales.

For business, our internet love affair was a gift from the gods.

People love advertising in particular but they hate advertising in general.

Part of why you love your parents is because they loved you first. Brands need to do that.

If we think of ourselves as a corporation, it gives us a healthy distance on ourselves. We're less subjective. We don't take blows as personally. We're more cold-blooded; we can price our wares more realistically. Sometimes, as Joe Blow himself, I'm too mild-mannered to go out and sell. But as Joe Blow, Inc., I can pimp the hell out of myself. I'm not me anymore. I'm Me, Inc. I'm a pro.

I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.

I look, absolutely, like I'm going to sell you insurance.