James Veitch Quotes

Social media is like a big trade-show. You get to network... you get to make friends and followers. But email is where those friends and followers become customers.

As a business owner, what's the sense in having droves of followers and connections if you aren't able to turn them into paying customers?

Sales may lead to advertising as much as advertising leads to sales.

Everything is designed to help you sell out.

We are extremely attractive to page companies, because we significantly increase their user base.

I still remember the five points of salesmanship: attention, interest, conviction, desire and close.

The principles behind explaining and educating the product or the elected official is similar, even though the actual execution of it is very, very different.

The purpose of driving traffic to your online business is to get customers. Once a prospect lands on your site, you still have to convert that prospect into a buyer.

I spend a lot of my time on the phone, pestering people. 'What's new in your lab? Can I come visit your lab? When can I come visit your lab?' I'm basically a professional pesterer.

Marketing is designed to bring people into something.

Selling is our No. 1 job. Never get away from selling a lot of merchandise personally. The more you sell the more you learn.

Direct Marketing

Understand this - as a new company, if you don't know how to get interested prospects into your company, then you don't have a company. At the same time, if you, as a owner, have to drive every lead into your business, then you need a real lead generation strategy.

Social media has shaken up the world of sales, with Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter offering new ways to hound leads and unprecedented insights into clients.

Everyone can benefit from seeing smart marketing.

Look, fundamentally the more you know about someone, the better you can communicate with them at a human level, or a mass-communication-advertising level.

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.

I came up with Hotmail's viral marketing idea.

Marketing is your battle plan for the sales team - it's about defining the landscape. Marketing is doing cohort analysis and understanding exactly what possible customers are out there. It's understanding not only which customers will respond to what messages, but also how customers will become clients if you include certain product features.

I was networking every day from 21 to 28 years old. I sent 10 letters a day, which means I reached out to 3,000 people in a year.

If you're in business and you make a sales call and that lead doesn't buy from you, you don't sit there all day mourning the loss of that lead. You go out there and make 10 more sales calls!

I used to send out emails to producers to collaborate and they'd give me nothing, not even a response. As soon as I started popping off, out they came!

What's your routine after attending a networking event or meal? If your answer is, 'I go home,' you're probably going to miss out on opportunities.

To talk to people, I have to spend energy talking to them. If I expend my energy on talking to people and making friends, it takes away from the energy I could focus on getting ready to pitch.

When I made 'Pizza,' all I had in my mind was to make the film reach as many people as possible.