Chris Brogan Quotes
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Your excuses will never be as good as the story of how you got it done.
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Don't treat your customers like a bunch of purses and wallets.
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Never try to be a thought leader. There's no value in that. Instead, try to add value.
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To truly know what works, you have to learn what doesn't work first.
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Marketers need to build digital relationships and reputation before closing a sale.
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The difference between PR and social media is that PR is about positioning, and social media is about becoming, being and improving.
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For every day we don't unlock our own value, we remain plugged into our other identity.
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An inventor creates something that works. An entrepreneur creates something that others will buy.
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Ask yourself this question CONSTANTLY: where can I add the most value to what matters most to me and the people who care about me?
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No matter what, the very first piece of Social Media Real Estate I'd start with is a blog.
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People who connect and build fluid relationships are trust agents.
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Ideas have a shelf-life. Share yours, let others collaborate, and you'll get new ones.
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Surrounded yourself with brilliant people. You can't HELP but grow when that happens.
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What's required is a kind of social media sherpa, who can find you the audience you seek, who can reach to them on the platforms where they are already congregating, and who can help promote in tasteful ways that fit the sensitivities of the networks where your audiences are found.
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Stories are how we learn best. We absorb numbers and facts and details, but we keep them all glued into our heads with stories.
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Content marketing is weaponized storytelling.
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Guide them where you want them to interact with you.
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You can't fake community, you can't force it, either.
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Social media puts the "public" into PR and the "market" into marketing.
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To trust agents, hyperlinks are the twenty-first-century equivalent of the name-dropper.
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When the people who support and are a part of your community, the community you have the pleasure and power and opportunity to serve, that's where all the best business happens.
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If you're not on the right path, get off it.
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Walt Disney believed in himself instead of worrying what others were saying.
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If you can't find your own center and love for yourself, nothing else works.
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Own your words. Your words are the maps to your intentions.
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Mission + tools. That’s really what it takes to have focus...you fail at focus because whatever you are trying to focus on isn’t important enough to you.
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While face-to-face is just as important as it ever was, now that we've got all kinds of new tools, let us tighten bonds in between those in-person moments.
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If we don't support the people who support us, what are we going to do?
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Celebrate small victories often. Mourn failures quickly. Do what's necessary without fanfare.
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Between your brain and your mouth (or your fingers) is magic: your power to choose what you say next. Use that magic.
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