All Erik Qualman Quotes
- Successful companies in social media function more like entertainment companies, publishers, or party planners than as traditional advertisers. Advertisers
- Pushing a company agenda on social media is like throwing water balloons at a porcupine. Agenda
- We don't have a choice on whether we DO social media, the question is how well we do it. Choice
- The beauty of social media is that it will point out your company's flaws; the key questions is how quickly you address these flaws. Address
- Why are we trying to measure social media like a traditional channel anyway? Social media touches every facet of business and is more an extension… Business
- To effectively leverage the social graph, every company needs to understand that they need to make their information easily transferable. Company
- Integrity is what you do behind closed doors or when you think nobody is watching. Integrity is the true essence of who you are, your… Behind
- Assume whatever you do, both offline and online, will be seen by your mother, dad, boss, coach, boyfriend, teacher… the world. Assume
- Privacy is dead. Reputations are dying. Dead
- Increasingly, consumers don't search for products and services. Rather, services come to their attention via social media. Attention
- The ROI of social media is that your business will still exist in 5 years. Business
- You're talking about a younger generation, Generation Y, whose interpersonal communication skills are different from Generation X. The younger generation is more comfortable saying something… Comfortable
- As social media is less about technology and more about relationship building, we are starting to see more women have a heavy influence if not… Building
- At a minimum the majority of search dollars will flow to a social media model because people care most about what their peers think and… Care
- With the advent of radical and accessible technology, each one of us, for the first time in history, is creating an influential mark forever -… Accessible
- Consumers are taking ownership of brands, and their referral power is priceless. Brands
- Social Media isn’t a fad, it’s a fundamental shift in the way we communicate. Communicate
- The power of social media is it forces necessary change. Change
- The easier things are to buy, the more we consume. Buy
- That's the power behind a tool like Facebook Connect. It is making a Web without walls. Facebook allows you to go to other sites to… Allows
- With the growing reliance on social media, we no longer search for news, or the products and services we wish to buy. Instead they are… Acquaintance
- One thing we seem to be missing is that just as we no longer search for the news, the news finds us today (e.g. this… Article
- It's about listening first, then selling. Firsts
- Social media has made the web all about me, me, me. All
- Folks want to be listened to, they want to be heard. Folks