Pat McAfee Quotes

I get daily mentions in blogs, I get mentions in Twitter and in different social media... I know that gets books sold.

Twitter, to me, works if you're funny. Twitter doesn't work as a promotional tool unless you do it very, very, very occasionally.

It seems like Weezer has gotten better and better at getting attention for everything besides our music. Part of that is just the nature of our culture now - you really have to scream to get some attention, so people even know you have a record out that they might want to listen to.

I started tweeting with the first film I directed. I found it the best way to promote it and to connect to the audience, and since then, it's been very helpful.

Instagram is a place for businesses to build their business.

I look at Twitter as brand building.

Brands frantically tried to compete for users' fragmented attention, spraying content on every platform in a 24/7 race to stay relevant.

I make sure to use both Twitter and Facebook a lot which helps me connect to the fans.

Word of mouth works now, much more than ever. @-reply every single person.

Being effective at social media, whether for business or personal use, means capturing people who have short attention spans. They're only a click away from a picture of a funny cat, so you have to make your thing more compelling than that cat. And that can be a high bar.

The only people with power today are the audience. And that is increasing with Twitter, Facebook, and everything else. We cater to their likes and dislikes, and you ignore that at your peril.

Every social media post should have a beautiful graphic. If there are two identical stories, the one with the beautiful graphic will always win.

It's not easy to run a social media account over a long period of time, but we love communicating with our fans every day and night.

Humor has been a major component in our past successes; a good joke and a good product combined can get a lot of people talking.

There are only two kinds of people who are successful at this social media thing: those who are funny and those who get real.

Social media is kind of the same across the board, so you just have to know how to engage your audience, and you will be popular on any platform that comes up.

We don't have a choice on whether we DO social media, the question is how well we do it.

Twitter and social media have so changed the game for filmmakers, but especially for artists. It shrinks the world and gives chance to feel like they know you. But it's a blessing and a curse. It can help build you up, but there's also such anonymity.

Authenticity is absolutely the key to a great tweet.

Buzz and the right publicist are not only important but crucial in show business.

For me, I guess the general reason for using social media is that the connection I have with people who are interested in my music is extremely important to me. That connection is like the pillar in everything I do. I want to embrace that connection and make it stronger.

Working with lots of old media clients, I've had a front-row seat on the ascension of new social players and the decline of traditional news outlets. And it's clear to me that old media has an awful lot to learn from social media, in particular in five key areas: relevance, distribution, velocity, monetization, and user experience.

Writers say many true things about their own experiences with publicity and promotion.

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.'

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