Michael Wolff Quotes

I really grew my own fan base. I started posting videos on YouTube with the help of my parents.

Today you can start a blog, build an audience, and give the advertising slots to AdBrite or Google AdSense.

Kim Kardashian is a major player coming off of a reality show, and nobody can turn a blind eye to what she's accomplished, no matter how you see her.

I never wanted to be a public intellectual or a talking head.

Developing a following and maintaining that is so much free labor - just for the love of it.

I wanted to be like Phil Donahue for the internet generation.

Nobody knows what goes on behind the scenes with a YouTuber.

I actually started my YouTube channel by accident! I was growing a fan base without even knowing it, and it's all in my book 'Is You Okay?'

It's nice to be able to engage with this fan base that I've worked to build, brick by brick.

So many people in their 20s and 30s, on Twitter, say 'Please write something for us,' so I have to listen to them, they're my audience.

There are certain people who have become better artists, but they're brilliant at marketing. I think someone who's been phenomenal like that is Madonna.

I don't have a massive fan base. I don't have Patton Oswalt numbers, but the fan base I have is incredibly generous, and of the 22,000 people who follow me on Twitter, I think almost all of those people participate.

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.

I hope that all new filmmakers see that the Internet and social media are helpful tools in establishing a fan base as well as being able to interact with your fans.

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.

Honestly, I had no idea what to do on Twitter when I started. I didn't follow it enough. Slowly, though, I started to realize what I'm okay at. Like, I'm just not particularly witty.

The social media thing is insane: the constant engagement with the public, not even just your fans. It's not really about the music; it's about how you can be seen.

I guess you can be a supermodel today just by building followers. You don't necessarily have to do the work of going to Milan and then to Paris or New York, trying to find the right photographer, artist, or designer to see you.

At their core, an influencer creates an empowering human connection.

I'm big into my Twitter account.

I spend a lot of time on Facebook and Twitter writing all day long because I feel it's my job to entertain people.

You can get an audience no matter what your opinion is.

I'm like a big kid. But it's not like a called myself the Instagram King. I put up what people want to see and that just happened.

Anyone with a cellphone essentially is their own broadcast network. If you can build a reach for yourself, you're essentially an influencer.

One challenge, if you do a website, a Youtube channel, Twitter, Facebook, Myspace, Ping, other things like that, is you don't have time to be an artist. As a performer, you need to practice.