Chris Brogan
Don't settle. Don't finish crappy books. If you don't like the menu, leave the restaurant. If you're not on the right path, get off it.Collection: Powerful
Cultivate visibility because attention is currency.Collection: Attention
The goal isn't more money. The goal is living life on your terms.Collection: Live Life
Ideas have a shelf-life. Share yours, let others collaborate, and you'll get new ones.Collection: Ideas
The key is, no matter what story you tell, make your buyer the hero.Collection: Hero
Your excuses will never be as good as the story of how you got it done.Collection: Stories
If you're not writing your own story, you're a character in someone else's.Collection: Writing
To truly know what works, you have to learn what doesn't work first.Collection: Pain
Stories are how we learn best. We absorb numbers and facts and details, but we keep them all glued into our heads with stories.Collection: Numbers
Fear is at the heart of most of our worst choices.Collection: Heart
Don't treat your customers like a bunch of purses and wallets.Collection: Purses
Own your words. Your words are the maps to your intentions.Collection: Inspirational
Marketers need to build digital relationships and reputation before closing a sale.Collection: Marketing
Ask yourself this question CONSTANTLY: where can I add the most value to what matters most to me and the people who care about me?Collection: What Matters
What's required is a kind of social media sherpa, who can find you the audience you seek, who can reach to them on the platforms where they are already congregating, and who can help promote in tasteful ways that fit the sensitivities of the networks where your audiences are found.Collection: Media
Social media puts the "public" into PR and the "market" into marketing.Collection: Media
Your day is your week is your month is your year.Collection: Years
No matter what, the very first piece of Social Media Real Estate I'd start with is a blog.Collection: Real
If you can't find your own center and love for yourself, nothing else works.Collection: And Love
Tell more people that you love them.You never know how much they might need it.Collection: People
Guide them where you want them to interact with you.Collection: Want
Bravery comes when you commit to doing the work.Collection: Bravery
Never try to be a thought leader. There's no value in that. Instead, try to add value.Collection: Leader
Complexity serves nothing but our ego. Be able to say what you do in a way that people can understand.Collection: People
When the people who support and are a part of your community, the community you have the pleasure and power and opportunity to serve, that's where all the best business happens.Collection: Opportunity
Between your brain and your mouth (or your fingers) is magic: your power to choose what you say next. Use that magic.Collection: Magic
If you accept all the praise, you have to accept all the critics.Collection: Blogging
Walt Disney believed in himself instead of worrying what others were saying.Collection: Worry
Raise up the people beside you & quit worshipping those above you.Collection: People
Treat praise like criticism: refuse to accept either.Collection: Criticism
Surrounded yourself with brilliant people. You can't HELP but grow when that happens.Collection: People
To trust agents, hyperlinks are the twenty-first-century equivalent of the name-dropper.Collection: Names
An inventor creates something that works. An entrepreneur creates something that others will buy.Collection: Entrepreneur
Mission + tools. That’s really what it takes to have focus...you fail at focus because whatever you are trying to focus on isn’t important enough to you.Collection: Focus
Try to help people rather than focusing on what's in it for me.Collection: People
Email is a system that delivers other people's priorities to your attention. It's up to you to decide when that priority should be managed into your world. It's not the other way around.Collection: People
The inbox is the perfect delivery system of other people's priorities.Collection: People
The difference between PR and social media is that PR is about positioning, and social media is about becoming, being and improving.Collection: Inspirational
If you're not on the right path, get off it.Collection: Marketing
Content marketing is weaponized storytelling.Collection: Marketing
For every day we don't unlock our own value, we remain plugged into our other identity.Collection: Identity
You can't fake community, you can't force it, either.Collection: Fake
There's no value to working hard on being really popular.Collection: Being Real
In a way, the web is like your Hollywood agent: It speaks for you whenever you are not around to commentCollection: Marketing
People who connect and build fluid relationships are trust agents.Collection: Communication
Any opportunity to be helpful is an opportunity to earn money.Collection: Opportunity
You might be the "little drummer boy," worried that what you have to say isn't worthy. Everyone has something to contribute, especially if you remember to be the real you and not a copy of others you feel are successful.Collection: Real
My bank does not accept likes.Collection: Doe
We exist to serve our community. That's the most important mind-set to maintain.Collection: Community
Business is about belonging which means inclusion is the new black.Collection: Mean