Top 25 Digital Marketing Quotes

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Written By Ryan Patton

Adventurer, Tech Geek and Lover of Productivity Hacks. 

Are you looking for insightful Digital Marketing Quotes? Check out our list to see some of the best ones.

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Digital Marketing Quotes

There are few industries that are as dynamic as the digital marketing industry.

Driven by the incredible pace of technological advancement in the digital age, the number of companies specializing in the many different disciplines under digital marketing umbrella has exploded in recent years. 

Today, wannabe marketing gurus are just about everywhere you look, each of whom claims to offer their own groundbreaking advice (for a fee, of course) on the optimum way to turn your digital marketing agencies into a market leader.

The digital marketing marketplace for ideas is now so saturated that it’s almost impossible to tell the experts from the phonies.

To help you cut through the noise, we recommend to follow along with those who you can be sure know what they’re talking about.

For this reason, we’ve decided to put together a list of the Top 25 Best Quotes from some of the top marketing minds in the digital marketing space.

  1. “Banners have 99 problems and a click ain’t one.” ~ Scott Sorokin
  2. “Content Marketing is a commitment, not a campaign.” ~ Jon Buscall
  3. “Content marketing is the only marketing left.” ~ Seth Godin
  4. “Stop interrupting what people are interested in and be what people are interested in.” ~ Craig Davis
  5. “Make your customer the hero of your stories.” ~ Ann Handley
  6. “Your brand is so much more than what you sell.” ~ Jon Iwata
  7. “Marketing is too important to be left to the marketing department.”~ David Packard
  8. “The buyer journey is nothing more than a series of questions that must be answered.” ~ IDC
  9. “People don’t buy what you do, they buy why you do it.” – Simon Sinek
  10. “Market like the year you are in!” ~ Gary Vaynerchuck
  11. “Don’t find customers for your products, find products for your customers.”  ~ Seth Godin
  12. “Content is king, but distribution is queen and she wears the pants.” ~ Jonathan Perelman, Buzzfeed
  13. “Content is the atomic particle of all digital marketing, says @Lieblink”~ Rebecca Lieb
  14. “Make your marketing so useful, people will pay you for it.” ~ Jay Baer
  15. “Content builds relationships. Relationships are built on trust. Trust drives revenue.” Andrew Davis
  16. “Help your customers and you help your business.” ~ Leo Burnett
  17. “Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.”  ~ Milan Kundera (Knowledge drop: Most people attribute the above quote to Peter Drucker who clearly borrowed from the author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being when he said:  “Because it is its purpose to create a customer, any business enterprise has two – and only these two – basic functions: marketing and innovation.” But Milan said it first. So here’s another good one from Peter…)
  18. “The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself.” ~ Peter F. Drucker
  19. “The sole purpose of marketing is to sell more to more people, more often and at higher prices. There is no other reason to do it.” ~ Sergio Zyman
  20. “What really decides consumers to buy or not to buy is the content of your advertising, not its form.” ~ David Ogilvy
  21. “The consumer is not a moron, she’s your wife.” ~ David Ogilvy (not sure this one stands the test of time. Blame Kessler in the comments. He made me add it!)
  22. “The aim of marketing is to make selling superfluous.” ~ Peter Drucker
  23. “If you have more money than brains you should focus on outbound marketing. If you have more brains than money, you should focus on inbound marketing.” ~ Guy Kawasaki
  24. “Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing about.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
  25. “Marketing takes a day to learn and a lifetime to master.” ~ Phil Kolter

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