Quotes by Erik Qualman - Page 1

Privacy is dead. Reputations are dying.
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Dying
Privacy
Reputation
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It's about listening first, then selling.
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Firsts
Listening
Selling
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The easier things are to buy, the more we consume.
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Consume
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Social media has made the web all about me, me, me.
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Media
Social
Social Media
Social Media Me Media
Me Media Social
Web
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Folks want to be listened to, they want to be heard.
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Folks
Heard
Want
Listened
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The power of social media is it forces necessary change.
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Change
Power
Media
Necessary Change
Social
Social Media
Power Social Media Media
Forces
Necessary
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History repeats itself because nobody listens the first time.
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First Time
Firsts
History Repeats Itself
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Everybody's got the mindset that everything should be measurable.
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Mindset
Should
Measurable
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You can spend your time daydreaming or make use of it in other ways.
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Daydreaming
Use
Way
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The ROI of social media is that your business will still exist in 5 years.
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Media
Roi
Years
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Social Media isn’t a fad, it’s a fundamental shift in the way we communicate.
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Fads
Fundamentals
Media
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Consumers are taking ownership of brands, and their referral power is priceless.
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Ownership
Priceless
Referrals
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We don't have a choice on whether we DO social media, the question is how well we do it.
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Success
Choices
Media
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Pushing a company agenda on social media is like throwing water balloons at a porcupine.
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Media
Pushing
Water
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Increasingly, consumers don't search for products and services. Rather, services come to their attention via social media.
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Attention
Media
Products
Social
Social Media
Increasingly
Search
Services
Via
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Assume whatever you do, both offline and online, will be seen by your mother, dad, boss, coach, boyfriend, teacher… the world.
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Dad
Teacher
Mother
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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.
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Addresses
Keys
Media
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To effectively leverage the social graph, every company needs to understand that they need to make their information easily transferable.
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Information
Needs
Social Media
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Successful companies in social media function more like entertainment companies, publishers, or party planners than as traditional advertisers.
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Party
Powerful
Successful
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25 percent of search results for the world's top 20 largest brands are links to user-generated content. 34 percent of bloggers post opinions about products and brands.
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Links
Twenties
World
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Best results are often achieved well before you need a job, by consistently networking so that when you find yourself job-hunting you have a large network to work with.
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Jobs
Consistently
Finding Yourself
Hunting
Achieved
Best Work Yourself
Large
Network
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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 of good business ethics.
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Ethics
Media
Trying
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Twenty-five percent of search results for the world's top 20 largest brands are links to user generated content and thirty-four percent of bloggers post opinions about products and brands.
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Bloggers
Brands
Links
Percent
Products
Results
Twenty Five
Content
Largest
Opinions
Post
Search
User
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It had not yet been named Silicon Valley, but you had the defense industry, you had Hewlett-Packard. But you also had the counter-culture, the Bay Area. That entire brew came together in Steve Jobs.
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Jobs
Bay Area
Counter Culture
Defense
Silicon
Silicon Valley
Together
Bay
Named
Brew
Steve
Valley
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With the advent of radical and accessible technology, each one of us, for the first time in history, is creating an influential mark forever - we are all mini-digital celebrities and heroes to someone.
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Technology
Creating
Hero
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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 being pushed to us by friends, acquaintances and business colleagues.
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Colleagues
Media
News
Products
Reliance
Social Media
Wish
Acquaintances
Search
Services
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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 comment, rate, etc., without having to set up a new profile for that site.
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Comment
Etc
Profile
Rate
Site
Tools
Wall
Connect
Facebook
Walls
Web
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Language is always evolving. It's difficult to read Shakespeare now because language has shifted. Similarly, kids these days can get to the point really quick in about 140 characters or less because of these new tools.
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Kids
Character
Tools
Evolving
Quick
Shakespeare
Shifted
Similarly
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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 the technology is there for that information to be quickly shared on products and services.
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Technology
Dollars
Flow
Majority
Media
Minimum
Peers
Social Media
Thinking
Quickly
Search
Services
Shared
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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 through a digital mechanism than even face to face.
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Communication
Comfortable
Communication Skills
Digital
Generation X
Interpersonal
Mechanism
Skills
Talking
Young Generation
Younger Generation
Younger
Generation
Whose
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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 beliefs and your values. Reputation is the public perception of who you are. It is how others view your integrity or strong moral principles.
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Integrity
Strong
Thinking
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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 dominant role in the social media space. It's no wonder that Facebook is being run in part by chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg.
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Running
Technology
Dominant
Heavy
Media
Social Media
Wonder
Chief
Facebook
No Wonder
Officer
Operating
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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 found me) we will no longer search for products and services, rather we will look to our social graph to what products and services they like and don't like.
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Looks
Missing
News
Products
Article
Finds
Today Look Me
Graph
Search
Services
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