Marvin Sapp Quotes

The problem most people make with their media presence is they're trying to craft a media presence as opposed to just consistently publishing who they are.

Nothing you see on the Internet is mine unless it comes from one of my albums, books, HBO specials, or appeared on my website.

I have never been attracted to increasing my popularity or hireability by being on Instagram.

I've been very careful to always make clear that I am a real person. That's why I'm on social media a lot.

When I first started on Twitter, a relative asked, 'Aren't you concerned with giving away your jokes?' I don't think of it that way. That's my content, and that's what I do.

I have a rule that I won't Google my own name.

Create a website that expresses something about who you are that won't fit into the template available to you on a social networking site.

We all have personal brands and most of us have already left a digital footprint, whether we like it or not. Proper social media use highlights your strengths that may not shine through in an interview or application and gives the world a broader view of who you are. Use it wisely.

I'm not big on looking up myself. I don't get Google alerts, and I don't look on blogs.

Well, I have never, ever Googled myself.

I've never Googled myself on the Internet.

Most days I am in public. If I go to the store, with social media, I'm in public. It might as well be a press conference.

Social media is changing the way we communicate and the way we are perceived, both positively and negatively. Every time you post a photo, or update your status, you are contributing to your own digital footprint and personal brand.

I tweet myself and do all the Facebook updates. It started off with me wondering whether I was showing off and I was very careful about what I wrote.

I had a blog where I tried to be transparent while giving away nothing. I tweeted and Facebooked badly. As a writer, your 'voice' is your calling card, yet my voice was becoming indistinguishable from billions of other voices.

Twitter is the limit of me putting myself out there.

I don't have a Facebook page because I have little interest in hearing myself talk about myself any further than I already do in interviews or putting any more about myself online than there already is.

There are some people whose Twitter feeds are works of art. They intuitively understand how much of themselves to put out there.

I don't like to Google myself. I try and avoid it whenever I can.

I've never looked at my Facebook page or my website, because I'm fundamentally an amateur.

Because of Twitter, I think people know most every single thing about me. I don't know if there's anything that would surprise people about me.

I was told having a website would help me. I have yet to figure out why my life story needs to be on the web.

Forget about someone's resume or how they present themselves at a party. Can they blog or not? The blog doesn't lie.

Building out a professional profile on LinkedIn certainly makes sense, and bolstering that CV with intelligent pieces of writing is also a great idea. But if you're going to take the time to create content, you should also take the time to create a home for that content that is yours and yours alone.

Twitter, just every once in a while I put something out there basically to promote whatever I'm doing, but I don't see any of that as representing me or who I am or being a brand.