Ryan Holmes Quotes

Although social media is a relatively new form of communication, it has become the primary way retailers and customers are interfacing.

There are only two companies in the world that can help me. That's Facebook and Google, because they are going to make me the largest digital network in the world, which is my goal.

Social media for the majority of companies is not about helping customers or improving products.

The reason I was able to grow my business was that every day, after producing 30 minutes of wine television, I spent 15 hours a day replying to every single person's e-mail and every single person's Twitter @ reply.

Companies like Pinterest and Twitter did not become sensations because of Google search but because of the many ways users find out about great sites.

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.

For startups, SM is now crucial: it has never been cheaper and easier to reach one's customers. Entrepreneurs should thank God for Twitter, Facebook.

If you're building a social product, you're still living in the last century if your product doesn't work on Facebook.

I am extremely passionate about digital media and as a longtime user and fan of Yahoo!

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

The future of advertising is the Internet.

I think Facebook, Twitter and YouTube are the cornerstones of any social media strategy.

I use Facebook all the time. I'm not a believer that they're going to do everything on the Internet better than anyone else.

I don't feel necessarily it's winner-take-all across the globe, where there has to be one local guide for the entire world. We'll certainly do as many of these markets as we can.

The future of communicating with customers rests in engaging with them through every possible channel: phone, e-mail, chat, Web, and social networks. Customers are discussing a company's products and brand in real time. Companies need to join the conversation.

I think that content posted to Twitter is distributed to more platforms, services, sites, online and offline than any other services out there. Would love to see if someone can prove to me otherwise.

Basically, the Internet is just the way now. It's the end-all, be-all of self-promotion. It's not like you got to burn CDs and pass them out or sell them. The Internet is a tool that reaches billions and billions of people. It's like a no-brainer to tie it in with self-promotion, or even label promotion.

German and English firms operate internationally, while French firms do not. The only place where they all have work is in China. Anybody can sell himself in China!

You can limit the number of invitations to an in-person fashion show, but you can't police the Internet.

I was not familiar with the Internet thing. Honestly, you know with all kinds of Internet media, I was not that familiar. I was not that kind of guy. Accidentally, 'Gangnam Style' happened, and you have YouTube and all other sorts of stuff like Facebook and Twitter and so on. So after that, I learned and learned.

Not surprisingly, the chief way self-published authors get the word out about their books is through the Internet.

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.

As Members of Congress we can now engage with our constituents via online innovations like the Huffington Post, while a small business in rural Oregon can use the Internet to find customers around the world.

Once you go global, you can’t stay local.

There is this idea that your social media platform is the secret to success, but no one has quite proven that to be true, if you ask me.