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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.
Chris Brogan
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Cultivate visibility because attention is currency.
Chris Brogan
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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.
Chris Brogan
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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?
Chris Brogan
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Your day is your week is your month is your year.
Chris Brogan
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Marketers need to build digital relationships and reputation before closing a sale.
Chris Brogan
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Stories are how we learn best. We absorb numbers and facts and details, but we keep them all glued into our heads with stories.
Chris Brogan
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Fear is at the heart of most of our worst choices.
Chris Brogan
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Social media puts the "public" into PR and the "market" into marketing.
Chris Brogan
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The goal isn't more money. The goal is living life on your terms.
Chris Brogan
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Your excuses will never be as good as the story of how you got it done.
Chris Brogan
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If you're not writing your own story, you're a character in someone else's.
Chris Brogan
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Own your words. Your words are the maps to your intentions.
Chris Brogan
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If you can't find your own center and love for yourself, nothing else works.
Chris Brogan
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Tell more people that you love them.You never know how much they might need it.
Chris Brogan
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Don't treat your customers like a bunch of purses and wallets.
Chris Brogan
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No matter what, the very first piece of Social Media Real Estate I'd start with is a blog.
Chris Brogan
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Bravery comes when you commit to doing the work.
Chris Brogan
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To trust agents, hyperlinks are the twenty-first-century equivalent of the name-dropper.
Chris Brogan
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If you're not on the right path, get off it.
Chris Brogan
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Content marketing is weaponized storytelling.
Chris Brogan
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The inbox is the perfect delivery system of other people's priorities.
Chris Brogan
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For every day we don't unlock our own value, we remain plugged into our other identity.
Chris Brogan
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Business is about belonging which means inclusion is the new black.
Chris Brogan
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In a way, the web is like your Hollywood agent: It speaks for you whenever you are not around to comment
Chris Brogan
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To truly know what works, you have to learn what doesn't work first.
Chris Brogan
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Never try to be a thought leader. There's no value in that. Instead, try to add value.
Chris Brogan
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Between your brain and your mouth (or your fingers) is magic: your power to choose what you say next. Use that magic.
Chris Brogan
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The difference between PR and social media is that PR is about positioning, and social media is about becoming, being and improving.
Chris Brogan
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Celebrate small victories often. Mourn failures quickly. Do what's necessary without fanfare.
Chris Brogan
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Guide them where you want them to interact with you.
Chris Brogan
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Complexity serves nothing but our ego. Be able to say what you do in a way that people can understand.
Chris Brogan
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Treat praise like criticism: refuse to accept either.
Chris Brogan
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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.
Chris Brogan
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Ideas have a shelf-life. Share yours, let others collaborate, and you'll get new ones.
Chris Brogan
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The key is, no matter what story you tell, make your buyer the hero.
Chris Brogan
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If we don't support the people who support us, what are we going to do?
Chris Brogan
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There's no value to working hard on being really popular.
Chris Brogan
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People who connect and build fluid relationships are trust agents.
Chris Brogan
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While face-to-face is just as important as it ever was, now that we've got all kinds of new tools, let us tighten bonds in between those in-person moments.
Chris Brogan
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Any opportunity to be helpful is an opportunity to earn money.
Chris Brogan
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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.
Chris Brogan
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My bank does not accept likes.
Chris Brogan
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We exist to serve our community. That's the most important mind-set to maintain.
Chris Brogan
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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.
Chris Brogan
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If you accept all the praise, you have to accept all the critics.
Chris Brogan
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Walt Disney believed in himself instead of worrying what others were saying.
Chris Brogan
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Don't ever think that somebody isn't important or not good enough, because you never know which way the road will take you.
Chris Brogan
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An owner is someone who chooses to own their life, own their choices, and own their future.
Chris Brogan
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You can't fake community, you can't force it, either.
Chris Brogan
