Platform Building Quotes

My advice for finding a literary agent would be first, put your work out there as much as possible and hopefully someone will find you, because I still have literary agents writing to me after they find my site. You want someone who understands your work and is going to be your cheerleader from day one.

I try to find, celebrate and teach leaders how to build platforms that will inspire others.

Now that I have a little platform, and there are more eyes on me to release something, all that does is challenge me and put me under pressure, and I love being under pressure, especially musically. I might fail, but I'm excited about the possibilities.

It is important to send your work to as many publishers as possible. For every one publisher who may show interest in your work, there will be at least five who will reject you.

It wasn't until I had a platform and an opportunity like 'Being the Elite' to show people that I'm a real human being. Show people I have a personality. I think that's helped more than anything in my career.

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

I have been so blessed not only to talk about things that I want to talk about in my industry, but also to have a platform - and people want to hear about it.

I want to give other creatives the opportunity to find the entrepreneur inside themselves and teach them how to build their own platform.

I'm not trying to be evasive, but when I say yes and no, I say 'yes' because there are narrow-minded people that won't look past the logo and 'no' because 'American Idol' put me in front of millions of people and I would not have a career without 'Idol.'

I have a love, hate relationship with social media. I love it, because it's built a platform for many people and many business... However, there is a dark side, which is negative and hateful.

I feel like I've built big enough platform and still building my platform for us to get justice for Breonna Taylor.

You put a microphone in my hand on live TV, and that's just an opportunity for me to get ahead in life. That's the way I look at it.

There are tons of really good writers out there, but for one reason or another, they just have not had the support that allowed them to build audiences.

As soon as I left Georgia, my narrative became about taking risks and the fight for creative bedroom artists with no platform.

I want to do public speaking and cause campaigning. I want to write a book.

I've always known I was going to be a big star, so I need a big stage and a big platform.

If I focus on being an activist and my job is to be a rapper, I'm not going to be as good of a rapper. I need to focus on hip-hop and focus on making the music, so that when the activists come to me and they need my voice to create a platform, then I've got enough people listening to me. Not because I'm conscious, but because I'm dope.

I wanted to first build a platform and then use it to shine a light on music/people that I believe in. This record label is for people across all corners of the world, to showcase all genres of music.

I grew up always wanting to be a part of 'Idol,' and I never thought I would make it as far as I did. I was really lucky, and it's given me the opportunities that I have now.

The biggest things I have are the platform that I have and influence.

I want first and foremost to help other artists, launch new names, to provide opportunities. I want to do for them what happened to me, but better.

A nonfiction author has to bring a platform with him - radio, a TV show or some kind of recognizable vehicle to help launch them. And the agent is really necessary to represent all of the business interests of the author.