Top 76 Sales Marketing Quotes
#1. Building on our successful partnership, we can now bring together the best of Microsoft's software engineering with the best of Nokia's product engineering, award-winning design, and global sales, marketing and manufacturing,
Stephen Elop
#2. I knew nothing about sales, marketing or how to run a company. Nor did I have a desire to do any of those things.
Brian Behlendorf
#3. Often marketing is still too much about people who want to sell. No! That is called sales. Marketing is about people who want to buy.
Erik Saelens
#5. In the innovation age customer experience is key. Your impression defines their expression
Fela Durotoye
#6. I'd be like, alright, I don't know anything about sales. So I would search for sales on Amazon, get the three top-rated books and just go at it. I did that for marketing, finance, product, engineering. If there was one thing that was really important for me, that was it.
Drew Houston
#7. If you don't build a personal brand, someone else will brand you with the wrong label.
Richie Norton
#8. There's a difference between publicity and marketing. A lot of writers don't realize how much marketing goes on beyond the scenes, with sales reps and advanced reading copies, all that stuff that happens months before a book is published.
Victoria Strauss
#9. What's the best way to ensure your small business makes a profit? Without a doubt, it's to keep your overhead costs low, and maximize your sales per marketing dollar.
Kevin J. Donaldson
#10. If you don't do sales and marketing, you'll forever be at mercy to those who do.
Eben Pagan
#11. There are three points I used to help a gourmet chocolatier increase sales 300% in a single month as well as a Midwest city to increase tourism guests 500% in 12 months.
David Brier
#12. Marketing, and the whole firm, should devote extraordinary endeavour towards delighting, keeping for ever and expanding the sales to the 20 per cent of customers who provide 80 per cent.
Richard Koch
#14. I'll name check Radiohead on this
they've done a pretty suave marketing plan on this new record. I think generally it's been a pretty cool thing, but what they've done is used those (sales) numbers in a way that they can spin them anyway they want cause you don't know what they are.
Trent Reznor
#15. Some salesmen think that selling is like eating - to satisfy an existing appetite; but a good salesman is like a good cook - he can create an appetite when the buyer isn't hungry.
George Horace Lorimer
#16. In the past the publishers I've worked with have been extremely generous. And in almost every case, have been people who believed in the work rather than the sales and marketing.
Peter Sotos
#17. I'm not sure I was a typical head of a company. Most people that run big companies come out of sales and they come out of marketing and they're quite serious and they have MBA's from very good schools and things like that. I'm an accidental CEO, thank the Disney Company.
Michael Eisner
#18. Customer conversion is dependent on the right customer conversation
Rasheed Ogunlaru
#20. 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
#21. The only perceptions that matter are those of your customers. Yet companies often design their marketing, advertising, and sales messages from a purely managerial perspective.
Jaynie L. Smith
#22. Where is personal selling? Isn't the sales force of key importance in business marketing?
Philip Kotler
#23. Anyone with a great product to sell should never criticize competing products. Your product should sell on its own merit. Consumers want the best of the best, not the best of a bad situation.
Zack W. Van
#24. The smart business person sees an opportunity to generate referrals by collaborating with their competitors.
Timothy M. Houston
#25. Sell-sell-sell sales methods simply do not work on social media.
Kim Garst
#26. I was a VP of marketing, I was regional sales manager in fashion, and marketing director in communications and product development. I was always a corporate Fortune 500 girl.
Patti Stanger
#27. a great publicity is a high way to remote customers and a universal key to the gate of ignorance
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#29. If you can get people who don't know about you to know about you (marketing), and you can convert them into customers (sales), and once they're customers, you can lead them from point A to point B, you can accomplish anything on the planet
Michael Ellsberg
#30. The three main observactions - (1) the tail of available variety is far longer than we realize; (2) it's now within reach economically; (3) all those niches, when aggregated, can make up a significant market - seemed indisputable, especially baked up with heretofore unseen data.
Chris Anderson
#31. Sound an alarm! Advertising, not deals, builds brands.
David Ogilvy
#33. Innovation, sales and marketing are less about ideas and persuasion and more about understanding. We forget that. People don't want one more nudge in the direction we have decided they need to go. They need us to build our businesses around what we notice will make their lives better. WHERE
Bernadette Jiwa
#35. Customers want to make informed decisions based on useful information, valuable engagements and brand affinity.
Dane Brookes
#39. The ultimate compliment a customer can make to an organization about one of its marketing people is: "I'm not sure whether your sales rep works for me or for you."
Buck Rodgers
#40. Traditional methods of sales prospecting are grossly inefficient.
Jill Konrath
#41. Some will, some won't. Look for the ones who will.
Todd Stocker
#42. The fact is, everyone is in sales. Whatever area you work in, you do have clients and you do need to sell.
Jay Abraham
#43. When I read in Fortune magazine that Warren Buffet, the billionaire investor and one of the world's richest men, was investing in a direct sales (network marketing) company, I decided I was missing something.
David Bach
#44. Your brand is a combination of a customer's experiences with your business at every touchpoint. Each memory, thought, impression, website visit, story, sales letter, social media post, event, phone call, and transaction contribute to
your company's brand reputation.
Elaine Fogel
#45. advertising produces familiarity which produces sales
Paul Cookson
#46. Social media and Social media marketing are not the same things. Understand social media marketing...seriously!
Timi Nadela
#47. People in business are uniquely unqualified to see their own companies and product objectively. Too much product knowledge causes them to instinctively answer questions no one is asking.
Roy H. Williams
#48. Marketing tells a story that spreads. Sales overcomes the natural resistance to say yes.
Seth Godin
#49. The difference between Sales and Marketing is that Marketing owns the message and Sales owns the relationship.
John Jantsch
#50. Tycoon had a peddler's talent for using words to redefine reality.
Vernor Vinge
#51. a lot of so-called health breakthroughs are not nearly as impressive as their marketing makes them appear. While it may be good business to spin the numbers to increase sales, it isn't good science. One
T. Colin Campbell
#52. So I just always drew. But never took that as a career path. I ended up in the computer business, and found myself as the vice president of sales and marketing for a computer accessories company.
Dan Povenmire
#53. Most Fortune 500 companies began as small start-ups whose entrepreneurial founders slowly developed the infrastructure, hired the staff, sourced manufacturers or built their own factory, and created distribution, sales, and marketing plans.
Lynda Resnick
#54. At the heart of all sales and marketing is the ability to create demand even in the absence of logic.
Jay Samit
#56. By monitoring the activity taking place on social networks, retailers can amplify successful marketing and sales strategies and avoid weak tactics which can later be tied back to organizational objectives.
Ryan Holmes
#57. Many companies forget what it means to make great products. After initial success, sales and marketing people take over and the product people eventually make their way out.
Steve Jobs
#58. Think of every contact a customer has with your brand as the most important encounter of your life.
Dane Brookes
#59. An element of propaganda, of sales and marketing, always intervened between the inner and the outer person.
Julian Barnes
#60. Honestly, my sales pitch when I was a kid was, 'You don't want these Girl Scout cookies, do you?' If I had to push my own books, I'd stop writing. I hate the conflation of marketing and writing.
Jincy Willett
#61. A brand is a person that has a voice, evokes emotion and spreads a message.
Richie Norton
#62. I've learned from numerous sources that e-mail marketing is still far more effective in driving book sales than social media. That's why we all get those e-mail blasts from Amazon every morning.
Teresa Medeiros
#63. Many business people end up being relationship rich, and referral poor.
Timothy M. Houston
#64. My e-books sales have overtaken everything else, so I think all the marketing has become very much driven by the author now because of social media.
Jane Green
#65. Social media is not just a spoke on the wheel of marketing. It's becoming the way entire bicycles are built.
Ryan Lilly
#66. Everyone is selling something, if you can't see what people are selling, maybe you're the cart.
Aniekee Tochukwu Ezekiel
#67. Dreams are less influential than actions and actions are less influential than results.
Bobby Darnell
#68. My genre-hopping has caused problems with marketing and sales departments over the years, because they need to know where to position a book with the booksellers.
F. Paul Wilson
#69. In my experience, the skill of success breaks down into three things. The skill of marketing. The skill of sales. And the skill of leadership.
Michael Ellsberg
#70. If you can build a powerful brand, you will have a powerful marketing program. If you CAN'T then all the advertising, fancy packaging, sales promotion and public relations in the world won't help you achieve your objective.
Al Ries
#72. The first lesson of branding: memorability. It's very difficult buying something you can't remember.
John Hegarty
#73. No growth hack, brilliant marketing idea, or sales team can save you long term if you don't have a sufficiently good product.
Sam Altman
#74. Once management is on board, the sales team needs to understand the rationale behind the micromarket strategy and have simple tools that make it easy to implement. That means aligning sales coverage with opportunity and creating straightforward sales "plays" for each type of opportunity.
McKinsey Chief Marketing & Sales Officer Forum
#75. Sales and marketing need to be joined at the hip, and aligned around the customer.
Donal Daly
#76. Advertising is legalized lying.
H.G.Wells
