Recently, I supported a team to develop a marketing strategy for a startup tech company in Kenya; while looking through some marketing quotes compiled by the team led, I circled the under-listed 30 inspirational marketing quotes.
One of the ideas that came to my mind while presenting my slides for the marketing strategy was the need for business to be more intentional about marketing. As a business owner, two things are very important, Innovation and marketing. While innovation deals with your brand ability to solve common societal problem, marketing allows people to see and understand the solution your brand is offering.
Here are Top 50 inspirational marketing quotes.
Top 50 Inspirational Marketing Quotes
1. Focus on the core problem your business solves and put out lots of content and enthusiasm and ideas about how to solve that problem. — Laura Fitton
2. The gap between what’s expected and what you deliver is where the magic happens, in business and in life. – Jay Baer
3. Creativity is intelligence having fun. – Albert Einstein
4. It’s not what you sell that matters as much as how you sell it — Brian Halligan
5. It’s not creative unless it sells. –David Ogilvy
6. Advertising in the final analysis should be news. If it is not news it is worthless. — Adolph Ochs
7. If your competitors start copying you, then you are doing something right – Jay Baer
8. Many companies have forgotten they sell to actual people. Humans care about the entire experience, not just the marketing or sales or service. To really win in the modern age, you must solve for humans. — Dharmesh Shah
9.If you just help your customers, or help your buyers buy, and answer the questions that they have in that journey, then you can really succeed. –Michael Brenner
10. Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark. You know what you are doing, but nobody else does. — Stuart Henderson Britt
11. If you love what you’re doing… that will make it so much easier to actually sit down and create content, inspire, entertain, and educate. That’s what’s really important. – Jeff Bullas
12. The only way to outdo, to outperform the competition is to offer something unique and something better than they have. –Tim Soulo
13.Do you have a product or service that people want? If you don’t have that, nothing else matters. –Noah Kagan
14. Never write an advertisement which you wouldn’t want your family to read. You wouldn’t tell lies to your own wife. Don’t tell them to mine. — David Ogilvy
15. Marketing is telling the world you’re a rock star. Content Marketing is showing the world you are one. —Robert Rose
16. People don’t buy what you do, they buy why you do it. — Simon Sinek
17. You cannot buy engagement. You have to build engagement. — Tara-Nicholle Nelson
18. Clients don’t care about the labor pains; they want to see the baby. — Tim Williams
19. There are a lot of opportunities that you can discover by listening closely to what your customers are saying. – Joei Chan
20. Stopping advertising to save money is like stopping your watch to save time. — Henry Ford
21. Advertising brings in customers, but word-of-mouth brings in the best customers. — Jonah Berger
22. Nobody reads ads. People read what interests them, and sometimes it’s an ad. — Howard Luck Gossage
23. Business has only two functions — marketing and innovation. — Milan Kundera
24. Integrated marketing offers opportunities to break through to consumers in new markets. — Betsy Holden
25. We not only need to understand the demographics of our customers, but we need to make sure that we create content for each of these different stages of the buyer’s journey. – Kyle Gray
26.Marketing strategy will impact every piece of your business and it should be tied to every piece of your business. – Brandon Andersen
27. Ignoring online marketing is like opening a business but not telling anyone. — KB Marketing Agency
28.Anybody who is trying to learn to do marketing, you have to niche yourself down into a specific industry…if you pick something, be the best at it. – Brittany Thompson
29. In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope. — Peter Nivio Zarlenga
30. We can’t do a lot of motivating with copy, but you can take someone’s motivation and turn it into something. – Joanna Wiebe