Karen Civil Quotes

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.

What's surprised me most about the demands of blogging - the relentlessness of it. 24-hour news cycle, every media imaginable right here in New York, totally fair game.

Twitter's a lot of work! That's the first thing I would say. There's so much pressure to be funny.

I do see an interest in writing for Twitter.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

When someone calls me a blogger, I think, 'That's one of the things I used to do.' I'm a creative director for my shoe brand; I'm the editor-in-chief of 'The Blonde Salad,' which is a website and not just a blog anymore.

We aim to be the primary creative partner, digital channel implementer, and relationship builder with influencers.

YouTube opened up a lot of doors.

Facebook and Twitter and Instagram are excellent ways to keep in touch with the audience and maintain your image an actor.

I'm the best Twitterer.

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.

I think that the social media space is great because that's where my bread and butter is, but I want to jump into doing traditional media and other fun things.

Don't have just anyone run your social media. I think it's insane when brands or celebrities relegate their social media to an intern or someone who does not know them well.

I never really thought I would make a blog myself.

Technology has been the great equalizer: you can find your audience, you can build your brand, and the people that are into you, great. They're going to follow you to whatever platform you go to.

Every brand has something on the Internet, whether it's video or doing something on social media. It's just another form that brands are starting to realize they have to be a part of.

Instagram rocks. I love it, and so do the youth I work with and study.

I get a thrill out of looking at my Twitter following and seeing how big it has gotten.

Every dollar I made from DJing, I put into my videos, promotion - everything.