Richard Edelman Quotes

I'm not really listed anywhere; I don't know how people find me!

Keeping your head down and just writing is only part of the equation, so I surround myself with smart people to help sell my books.

I'm friends with a lot of influencers, and I'm very supportive. They want to come in and do what I'm doing, and I want to branch out to what they're doing.

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.

Morphe was one of the first makeup brands that I worked with when I was just starting out. The great thing about them is that they were really invested in social media and influencers like me early.

It's all about how you use your social platform. Right now, I'm just using mine to empower people, get my entertainment and my news. Other people use their platform for different things.

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

Marketing is such a key issue; in fact, the marketing department is often involved in the approval of scripts now.

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

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

To pursue a career in Hollywood you have to have a personality bypass. Look at the top 20 stars in the world - there's probably only two actors among them. Hollywood's not about you as an actor. It's about your currency, what you 'bring to the table'. And I've never been one to jump through hoops for anyone.

Co-creation is much more work than writing somewhere in a hidden corner and then publishing your content. However, the benefits outweigh the costs.

Social media is called social media for a reason. It lends itself to sharing rather than horn-tooting.

I've found my calling with Twitter. It's all about the amount of interaction you do, and the traffic you move, and I'm really good at that. I keep going and going and going, and no one can believe that I can keep it up.

Marketing is a contest for people's attention.

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.

As a speaker, business leader or marketer of any type, the onus is now on each of us to become equally capable of communicating very personally with a seemingly endless number of people connected by social technologies.

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.

Companies can't delegate social media to the new college grad and think they have it covered.

You really can't spend money on social media unless you really try. Social media is really more about effort than expense.

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

You have to be dope; you have to find an audience and reach that audience with your identity and your message.

I'm big into my Twitter account.

I'm skilled in the Twitter and Instagram sense of the social media verse.

You can get good at finding access in the entertainment business. But the ideas, the narratives themselves, they are the only things that are going to be of any value.