Wale Quotes

VaynerMedia filters the world how humans interact. This is how people are going to make buying decisions.

I am making use of social media as a marketing tool. It's a great way to market yourself and your projects. It's a free marketing tool.

You know what's dope about social media, the Internet, and stuff in general? It's that you never really realized before how much love you get, and now you can see people around the country wearing your stuff or wearing your face.

I wasn't into social media at all, but when I decided I was going to put out my own music, I said, 'Okay, I'm just going to post it.' And that's when it started its rounds on the Internet, and people started to take an interest in me.

Every news organization needs a social media strategy.

Any business that is looking for new customers needs to understand the Internet and how to market their goods or services through it.

We use social media as an adjunct to my total media/market outreach.

You could have a zillion Facebook followers. Those people don't buy records. It's about a hundred to one...Record companies, they don't have any money, so they see social media as the free marketing... So... 'Billy, light yourself on fire and stand upside down, and that'll market the record.'

The future of advertising is the Internet.

A young artist can become popular more quickly with the Internet providing instant access to one's work.

I think Facebook is an extraordinarily important part of the Internet ecosystem, and having a robust presence there is a critical part of any brand (or company's) strategy.

I think social media is so important; the young bands have certainly embraced that and used that to their advantage.

My website, my email magazine, my blog, my books, my corporate seminars, and my public seminars all create the ability for social media to work and all build reputation and ranking.

I never really enjoyed getting a portfolio together then sending it out; whereas, putting up the website is quite an enjoyable experience. The net's just a much faster and more modern way to distribute things, and you have to embrace it.

I think that every artist - or anybody that's in business - could benefit from a direct-to-consumer strategy, so I think that that applies to us as artists and content creators, too.

I've definitely pitched some viral ideas and do have a pretty good understanding of the Web.

With social media, if you have a viral video people can like what you do and it's homegrown and very organic.

Blogging can generate a great deal of traffic to your online business.

You don't need a corporation or a marketing company to brand you now: you can do it yourself. You can establish who you are with a social media following.

I had no idea at all how to model, but people would start to follow me. So, I would go to these start-up companies and say, 'I have all these followers... how can we work together?'

I have never done television, essentially, so the Internet has made me and opened avenues for me.

There's the good and the bad aspects to Social Media. What I do find great is how much social media has changed businesses and the way they structure their marketing.

I use trolling tactics to build my brand.

Wouldn't it be so cool if we could use the Internet to build a better beauty brand?

A lot of what's happened with my career has been because of the Internet. It's a way for me to reach fans directly, especially with music.