My Top 20 Inspiring Quotes For Social Media

What can social media do for your business?

Everyone tells us that we need a social media presence. Whether you’re a company worth billions or an entrepreneur, social media is a way to engage with your audience and build a brand.

Should you try to be everywhere and maintain a presence on Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Instagram, and Twitter? Or are you better off building a solid following on just one of these platforms?

If you’re like me, you can pull your hair out, trying to do too much at once. I feel that it’s better to authentically engage with fewer people rather than spread yourself too thinly.

However, one thing is certain… it pays off to have some skin in the social media game.

My top 20 social media quotes for your inspiration:

“Going viral is not an outcome; it’s a happening. Sometimes it happens; sometimes it doesn’t. Just remember, fans are vanity and sales are sanity.”- Lori Taylor

“When it comes to social media marketing, you don’t have to post 3 times a day. It’s never about how often you post, but the quality of your content.” — Janet Benson Amarhavwie, Social Media Manager

“You don’t need a corporation or a marketing company to brand you now: you can do it yourself. You can establish who you are with a social media following.” — Ray Allen, Professional Basketball Player

“Get in where you fit in and then focus on that platform.” — John Lawson, Best-Selling Author and Speaker

“A brand is no longer what we tell the consumer it is — it is what consumers tell each other it is.” — Scott Cook, Co-Founder of Intuit

“The way you treat your users or customers, and how you personally present yourself through social media, is a way to differentiate yourself from your competitors.” — Alexis Ohanian, Reddit Cofounder

“You are what you tweet.” —Alex Tew, Founder & CEO of Calm

“Social Media puts the ‘public’ into PR and the ‘market’ into marketing.” —Chris Brogan, President of New Marketing Labs, Chrisbrogan.com

“Social media is not just an activity; it is an investment of valuable time and resources. Surround yourself with people who not just support you and stay with you, but inform your thinking about ways to WOW your online presence.” — Sean Gardner, Forbes Social Media Power Influencer, AI specialist

“If you make customers unhappy in the physical world, they might each tell 6 friends. If you make customers unhappy on the internet, they can each tell 6,000 friends.” — Jeff Bezos

“Social media is a buzzword, until you come up with a plan.” — Unknown

“Today, thanks to the social media revolution, clients actually own media and consequently a platform to express themselves.”― Maxim Behar, The Global PR Revolution: How Thought Leaders Succeed in the Transformed World of PR

“Never underestimate the power of a #hashtag.” ― Bernard Joseph Burch

“You can’t tiptoe into social media. You have to jump into the pool. People have a natural fear of it. But the scary part is not being there. Your customer is already there.” —Dave Saunders, Founder madisonmain.com

“Being effective at social media, whether for business or personal use, means capturing people who have short attention spans. They’re only a click away from a picture of a funny cat, so you have to make your thing more compelling than that cat. And that can be a high bar.” —Alexis Ohanian, Co-Founder, Reddit

“‘Build it, and they will come’ only works in the movies. Social Media is a ‘build it, nurture it, engage them, and they may come and stay.’” —Seth Godin, sethgodin.com

“Social media creates communities, not markets.” — Don Schultz, marketing pioneer

“Social media requires that business leaders start thinking like small-town shop owners. This means taking the long view and avoiding short-term benchmarks to gauge progress. It means allowing the personality, heart and soul of the people who run all levels of the business to show.” — Gary Vaynerchuk

“Social media allows us to behave in ways that we are hardwired for in the first place — as humans. We can get frank recommendations from other humans instead of from faceless companies.” ― Francois Gossieaux, The Hyper-Social Organization: Eclipse Your Competition by Leveraging Social Media

“Without a strategy, your social media channels just become a source of entertainment rather than lead-generation tools.” ― Pooja Agnihotri, 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail: Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure

Don’t be afraid to put yourself out there!