Marketing Advice Quotes

#1. Five Minute Marketing is entertaining and thought provoking marketing advice by a Canadian for Canadians.

Dan Poynter

#2. If it touches the customer, it's a marketing issue!

Steven Howard

#3. You need to position yourself to your referral sources and your current clients as providing exceptional value and experiences in everything you do

Timothy M. Houston

#4. Stop selling hard to your pals, most of the time they are just not your audience

Bernard Kelvin Clive

#5. Treat your entire audience with the same level of care.

Cendrine Marrouat

#6. A platform is what defines your visibility with your audience.

Geraldine Solon

#7. DOOR MONEY" To focus on door money means one is paying so much attention to the amount of money they are making at the door they do not consider there is much more profit to be made inside a venue.

Carlos Wallace

#8. The size of your audience is more important than the size of your book

Bernard Kelvin Clive

#9. Do not lie to yourself: not every penny you invest in marketing and promotion is an actual investment. What's the difference? It is easy - if you spend your precious money in a marketing campaign and this provokes increased profit, then that is well invested money.

F. Marco-Serrano

#10. the prudent business mind must not only think of competing with the prevailing giants in the market but must also not be oblivious of the latent deft of the masses who are yet to dare

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#11. Writers need to be open to trying new things. My first bestseller was a cookbook, and from that experience I learned things about marketing a book that benefitted me greatly.

Dan Alatorre

#12. One problem with the discipline of marketing is that everyone knows enough about it to make suggestions, but most don't know enough to offer good advice.

Eric M. Jackson

#13. Given the reality of limited time and resources, best practices provide a valuable, low risk, default starting point.

Chad White

#14. Do not assume that people are seeing you. The more you can clarify, optimize, and engage your fans and strangers with branded marketing and merchandise, the better chance you have of being seen and then heard.

Loren Weisman

#15. To get more clients, measure what you manage.

Lisa A. Mininni

#16. Best practices are particularly valuable to those who are unfamiliar with email's unique, often confusing rules.

Chad White

#17. Referrals are the privilege of the opportunity given to you by someone else to potentially do business with someone who wants, needs or desires the products or services you offer

Timothy M. Houston

#18. When you are networking you are doing more than just marketing your business; you are marketing yourself.

Timothy M. Houston

#19. Customers want to make informed decisions based on useful information, valuable engagements and brand affinity.

Dane Brookes

#20. Most startups actually start down and only go up if they catch the winds of market demand.

Ryan Lilly

#21. The more you engage and connect, the more engagement and connections you will have.

Loren Weisman

#22. When we think a thought enough times it becomes a belief and that belief becomes a pattern which, in turn, becomes how we live our lives.

Sherree Mongrain

#23. Social Media Strategy isn't rocket science...but it might as well be if you don't know what you're doing.

Sherree Mongrain

#24. Avoid selling to dumb customers, there aren't enough left!

Jasleen Kaur Gumber

#25. The smart business person sees an opportunity to generate referrals by collaborating with their competitors.

Timothy M. Houston

#26. Social media takes time and careful, strategic thought. It doesn't happen by accident.

Brian E. Boyd Sr.

#27. Think of every contact a customer has with your brand as the most important encounter of your life.

Dane Brookes

#28. Like Hansel and Gretel whose trail of breadcrumbs got eaten~ your customer may lose their way once they have left your website and they may never come back.
An email marketing list helps you remind your customers of who you and your business are.

Nina Montgomery

#29. For your business to stand out and succeed, you have to put a primary focus on the social media space, go in big (halfway will not do), and do it better than most, right from the start.

Brian E. Boyd Sr.

#30. ...relentlessly pursue your best method of getting customers, and not the stuff you naturally gravitate to.

Dan Norris

#31. Great content inspires action.

Dane Brookes

#32. An advertising campaign should be timely.

A branding campaign should be timeless.

Steven Howard

#33. Social media is your opportunity to reach a massive number of people with transparency, honesty, and integrity.

Brian E. Boyd Sr.

#34. Investments in greater email marketing sophistication often lead to even higher returns, not diminishing returns.

Chad White

#35. Artificial Intelligence is not a Man versus Machine saga; it's in fact, Man with Machine synergy.

Sudipto Ghosh

#36. Networking is not a part-time or occasional exercise. Everywhere we go, we haven an opportunity to network with others.

Timothy M. Houston

#37. People can't read a book if they don't know it exists. All authors need to do marketing, regardless of how they published.

Jo Linsdell

#38. You may start small but don't stay small

Bernard Kelvin Clive

#39. Marketers and executives are very different from the average consumer, so your instincts may mislead you.

Chad White

#40. When I meet with the founders of a new company, my advice is almost always, 'Do fewer things.' It's true of partnerships, marketing opportunities, anything that's taking up your time. The vast majority of things are distractions, and very few really matter to your success.

Evan Williams

#41. Poor practices are blunting email marketing's effectiveness and keeping its ROI from being truly awesome.

Chad White

#42. Best practices are those practices that generally produce the best results or minimize risk.

Chad White

#43. I know one writer who has been subscribing authors without their permission and sending out what she thinks are helpful advice sheets, but they come off as if she's a know-it-all. She thinks she's marketing herself and her work. All she's really doing is turning readers off.

M.J. Rose

#44. One of the ways to make sure you have a thriving practice is to always market. The best way to do that is to systematize your marketing mix, so it runs on autopilot.

Lisa A. Mininni

#45. To sell something familiar, make it surprising. To sell something surprising, make it familiar.

Derek Thompson

#46. Brands that will survive and thrive from now on are those with C-level executives that understand the incredible opportunity new media offers them and commit to excellence in managing their social media presence.

Brian E. Boyd Sr.

#47. The on-brand execution of best practices tailored to your unique audience is what leads to the best execution.

Chad White

#48. Many business people end up being relationship rich, and referral poor.

Timothy M. Houston

#49. Plant today what you want to harvest tomorrow.

Lisa A. Mininni