Social media isn’t a brand strategy. Social media is a channel. While it’s important for a brand to develop something to say, it’s more important to create something that will be heard.
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Related Part of having a social media strategy is being smart about whom you follow. Ask yourself who is imp... MICHELLE PHAN Embrace the social media and utilize it wisely to promote your brand. When you optimize the social m... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Universities want to recruit the students that they believe will best represent the university while... AMY JO MARTIN The answer to the question how to use Social Media lies in the name itself - being social; listen an... ANOOP RAGHAV Social media is like your own personal brand of junk food; some is just added calories. NANETTE L. AVERY How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS Don't do or say something that would be embarrassing if it was taped and posted on Social Media for ... PATTY RASE HOPSON Nowadays, social media is the easiest place to go to find something. DAVID NAIL Social media is called social media for a reason. It lends itself to sharing rather than horn-tootin... MARGARET ATWOOD I just don't do much social media. No, it is more important to strike a balance between ballet a... YUAN YUAN TAN A large social-media presence is important because it's one of the last ways to conduct cost-eff... GUY KAWASAKI Social media is something of a double-edged sword. At its best, social media offers unprecedented op... ROXANE GAY Social media and personalization are providing both brand advertisers and end-users with hyper-targe... JAY SAMIT 5 Ways To Build Your Brand on Social Media: 1 Post content that add value 2 Spread p... GERMANY KENT A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung... PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE Reputations can be built, attacked, and destroyed on social media. It's a huge game-changer - in... JUDY SMITH As social is where consumers' eyeballs are, businesses must take ownership of their online compa... RYAN HOLMES While strides are being made in the social-media space, the newspaper and news business should conti... AMY JO MARTIN Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said: I am not commanding you, but I ... NICHOLAS SPARKS To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me. NICHOLAS SPARKS As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the... NICHOLAS SPARKS You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on... HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them. HARPER LEE 99.5 percent of the people that walk around and say they are a social media expert or guru are clown... GARY VAYNERCHUK Social media is not only the most important tool for inciting terrorists, it can also be an effectiv... KURT EICHENWALD She could be anybody and she could pretend to be whomever she wants to be. With social media and int... STEVAN V. NIKOLIC Social media is just that - social. JOHN PATRICK HICKEY Following trends on social media will not lead to social consciousness. CARLOS WALLACE I find myself in social situations often where I think of a response to something someone has just s... CASPAR VEGA A Ritual to Read to Each Other If you don’t know the kind of person I am and... WILLIAM STAFFORD We live in a media age. In many respects, it is more important for people to be known in the media c... LEE RAINIE What is interesting is the power and the impact of social media... So we must try to use social medi... MALALA YOUSAFZAI I refuse to wait around for someone to give me something. I will create it myself. I will be my own ... NERISSA IRVING Twitter is not just for Journalists. You don’t have to be a writer to Tweet.[Social Media] GERMANY KENT Social media allows me to pick my times for social interaction. GUY KAWASAKI For a truly effective social campaign, a brand needs to embrace the first principles of marketing, w... SIMON MAINWARING ISIL's widespread reach through the Internet and social media is most concerning, as the group h... JAMES COMEY Lᴏᴠᴇ ɪs ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡɪɴᴅ ... Yᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ'ᴛ sᴇᴇ ɪᴛ, ʙᴜᴛ ʏᴏ... NICHOLAS SPARKS She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr... GAIL CARRIGER Social media is simply a tool that facilitates actions. OBIAGELI EZEKWESILI Use social events, social networks and every get-together at work to build a stronger brand YOU! ABHISHEK RATNA Don't waste your tremendous voice writing messages in the sand. LORIN MORGAN-RICHARDS Not every brand needs to be on every social platform. Brands should have a very strategic objective,... IMRAN AMED Certification programs for social media are blossoming as a response to the demand for more social m... RYAN HOLMES En Social Media encontrar respuestas claras a la pregunta ¿Cómo vamos a llegar? Es la táctica del... CRISTO LEON Presidential campaign observer Teddy White on the second Kennedy-Nixon debate in which the candidate... DAVID PIETRUSZA It's no longer good enough to be a mass media brand. We have to learn how to sell small. BOB LACHKY If a brand genuinely wants to make a social contribution, it should start with who they are, not wha... SIMON MAINWARING Too many brands treat social media as a one way, broadcast channel, rather than a two-way dialogue t... SIMON MAINWARING My goal is to bridge the gap between social media and traditional media. CAMERON DALLAS I think Facebook, Twitter and YouTube are the cornerstones of any social media strategy. CHAD HURLEY In the context of social media, reddit is more about the media than the personalities. YISHAN WONG While companies were getting comfy cozy with the idea of being on social media platforms, social med... GARY VAYNERCHUK They’re called sock puppets. We create armies of artificial online personas – user accounts that... DANIEL SUAREZ While paying attention to positive and negative feedback is very important, it is not enough. What a... CENDRINE MARROUAT Think of yourself as a brand. You need to be remembered. What will they remember you for? What defin... CHRIS ARNOLD Every day I am being told to sign up for Tumblr, Yammer, Friendfeed, Plaxo, Last.fm, ping.fm or the ... MARK MCKINNON I think the adoption rate with respect to social media and how companies leverage that varies by the... PADMASREE WARRIOR With the Internet and social media being a huge part of today's culture, I think it's super ... G. HANNELIUS Tweets about the mundane aspects of your life contain something that is vitally important to gaining... IAN LAMONT Social media is changing the way we communicate and the way we are perceived, both positively and ne... AMY JO MARTIN I know having a social media profile removed is a 21st century privileged problem - but it is the wa... PETRA COLLINS It’s important, however, to understand that being introverted is different from being shy or antis... AARON CAYCEDO-KIMURA Companies and managers that find a way to harness social media stand to gain. RYAN HOLMES Treat your entire audience with the same level of care. CENDRINE MARROUAT In a social media world, the danger is being overexposed and when something is overexposed it is no ... DONNA LYNN HOPE I'm a social media addict. ISSA RAE If something on the inside is telling you that someone isn’t right for you, they’re NOT right fo... MANDY HALE I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix. DEYTH BANGER People who smile while they are alone used to be called insane, until we invented smartphones and so... MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA Although my values and my morals are old-school, you have to kind of key into the landscape of socia... SEBASTIAN MANISCALCO A brand is a person that has a voice, evokes emotion and spreads a message. Build a brand or a brand... RICHIE NORTON There are just some kind of men who-who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learn... HARPER LEE The role of the
Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to
think of themselve... LEWIS N. ROE Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It
has no power to explain even some
of the most basic principl... LEWIS N. ROE It's important to understand that if
someone calls themselves a Christian, it does not automatically... LEWIS N. ROE We use social media as an adjunct to my total media/market outreach. JEFFREY GITOMER While social media skills were once a 'nice-to-have,' accreditation in the space is becoming... RYAN HOLMES Nixon wanted view and advice brought to him through intermediaries. He wanted information filtered a... DAVID PIETRUSZA I think it's important to note that after the airstrikes began in Iraq and Syria, ISIS began a v... MIKE MCCAUL Social media is an amazing tool, but it's really the face-to-face interaction that makes a long-... FELICIA DAY All things I’ve ever wanted to say suddenly I’ve been bold enough to say them on Social Media. GERMANY KENT Just because something isn’t good doesn’t mean it’s bad. REBECCA MCNUTT Social Media begins with a story - your story. GERMANY KENT You know, Ava, it’s good to be smart, but kindness is more important. ANITA DIAMANT It is a sign of self-centered person that s/he even while congratulating someone on birthday on soci... ANUJ SOMANY This is all too important.” Aenea smiled. “It’s all too important. That’s the damned problem... DAN SIMMONS How to be a Poet (to remind myself) Make a place to sit down. Sit down. Be quiet. <... WENDELL BERRY if it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don't do it. unless it... CHARLES BUKOWSKI What drew me to this job is that Univision is a brand unlike any other in all of media. Univision ha... RANDY FALCO They've implemented a short-term strategy that sacrifices long-term results. They want to create eno... CHARLES WOLF Social media is a powerful tool to raise awareness and create change. But we must take care not to r... CHARLIE CARUSO Social media is a double-edged sword. I've gotten in trouble for announcing, too soon, something... CHARISMA CARPENTER Enter every moment as if it’s already a success. It’s already done. Your affirmation isn’t try... DEREK RYDALL Social media is a superimposing place where people are usually bragging. BRANDON STANTON Now we have so many more social outlets, so many ways to be stalked and bullied. If social media is ... KHLOE KARDASHIAN It isn’t always the treasure that drives men down deep into the sea; it’s something else, someth... JENNIFER ARNETT What social-media really becomes after years of use is a constant stream of information both verbal ... AYSHA TARYAM The new dynamics between brands and consumers, driven by social media, are proving to be a powerful ... SIMON MAINWARING
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