Lewis Howes Quotes

When people are making the decision to put a piece of content online, they really do truly want to get it in front of the largest audience.

I've never done much to try to build an audience.

We shouldn't be ashamed of getting people to click on content that we're proud of.

Everyone talks about discovery, but I really believe that great content finds its audience.

Standing out as a writer today requires more than a bright idea and limpid prose. Authors need to become businesspeople as well.

We're more interested in someone writing a really great answer that's going to be read by thousands or tens of thousands of people over the next few years as it stays on Quora and as it gets distributed on the Internet.

My best advice for anyone out there that feels like, 'I don't have a million followers so why should I even give it a shot,' is that it's not about the numbers - it's about the engagement. That's how you can build influence.

I love Instagram - I don't actually go on Twitter and tweet; I just connect it through my Instagram account. I think it's a good way of getting stuff out there and connecting with people.

Your worst enemy as a writer - especially one working online a lot of the time - is obscurity.

I think YouTube has been super instrumental in our success as well, because I think there's something really important about seeing and hearing what we're doing.

I post wherever I have an audience.

By having a blog, you can make yourself very accessible to your target audience. You can leave comments open on your blog so you can learn exactly what your audience likes about what you're doing with your business and about what they think you should change.

It's such a loud world out there, so it's important to be able to be ubiquitous across formats.

I believe that in today's media landscape, we can create and distribute content on multiple platforms while remaining fresh and relevant.

As a content creator, all you can do is do your best work and then hope that it resonates somehow with an audience.

You can't be like, 'Alright, I'm going to make this viral!' You just put stuff out there, and you hope that people engage and resonate with it.

A key component of social media is 'following' - and no one is there to see what you have to say on Instagram or Twitter if they aren't motivated to follow you.

I promoted myself on Twitter and Facebook as hard as possible, nonstop. People started realizing that if they commented on my videos, I'd reply to their comment, so I started getting a lot more views and comments.

We've recognized that Twitter is the second screen for TV, and TV is more fun with Twitter. There are a bunch of ways that we can be complementary to broadcasters.

I have over 2 million followers now on Google Plus.

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

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

I have this whole new audience now.

Twitter is just like posting old-fashioned press releases, and it can be very effective in promoting your business interests and charity work.

The power lies with content creators now, but if you can't reach people, there's no point.