Episodes

Nov. 11, 2014

Mistakes, Interviews, and Keynotes

As a teacher and any professional looking to expand their personal brand, my advice remains the same -- Cut out the crap, stop wasting time on non-important things, and hustle to build your brand. If you want to build a more ...
Nov. 10, 2014

Pet Peeves, Young Entrepreneurs, and Overcoming Fear

#QOTD: How long have you been following my work? Wanting to be an entrepreneur and being an entrepreneur are two very different things. If I were a young and aspiring entrepreneur I would go out an hustle my face off in any w...
Nov. 6, 2014

Prioritizing Your Time & Hooking Up

#QOTD: Want to win a dinner with me? I need you to predict how many episodes of the #AGV show we'll wind up producing once this is all said and done. Those that guess right will be selected to have dinner with me. Deal? They ...
Nov. 4, 2014

Facebook Organic Reach, Dating in NYC, and Being a Leader

#QOTD: How bad you want to work at VaynerMedia? The transition from being a "doer" to becoming a leader can be very difficult. Quite frankly, it scares the crap out of me. It's hard to go from "execution-mode" to then becomin...
Nov. 3, 2014

Virtual Reality, Content Creation, and No Excuses

#QOTD: Let me know what the next 3-5 years look like for your business. What do you have planned? What are you looking to accomplish? Micro-Content is the idea of making content specific to the context of a platform. It's the...
Nov. 1, 2014

Twitter Auto-Replies, Marketing Gurus, and Happiness

#QOTD: No question for this one! I need more banter!! I'm looking at you, VaynerNation ;) I absolutely hate when people send auto-messages after they've gained a new follower. I have actively un-followed most of you when you ...
Oct. 28, 2014

How To Create Real Estate Content

#QOTD - Are you a chugger, or did you have a turning-point moment, and if so, what was it? If I were a realtor, the thing I would do more than anything else would be to review the establishments in my area. If I'm selling hom...
Oct. 27, 2014

Email Marketing in Today's World

#QOTD: What do you think of GaryVaynerchuk.com ? Questions, comments, concerns? What’s your $.02? Email is definitely not dead. As most you may know by now, I’m a big fan of marketing in the year that we live in. And so, emai...
Oct. 22, 2014

How to Build a Personal Brand from Nothing

#QOTD: Are you a Vayniac or part of the VaynerNation? What's the difference? If I were to go back in time and start all over again, I would change NOTHING. From 22 to 32, for the first ten years of my hustle, I remained quiet...
Oct. 17, 2014

Increasing Exposure Through Business Development

#QOTD: What is your favorite candy? First of all, if you want to increase engagement with your content, you need to make sure you're putting out quality product. Once you know that you're hitting the right notes with the mate...
Oct. 16, 2014

Is Twitter Really Overvalued?

#LINKS iTunes! - https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/id928159684?mt=2 I am one of those people who used to think that tons of companies were overvalued. However, I was eventually proven EXTREMELY wrong. As I learned throughout t...
Oct. 13, 2014

Is it Better to be Self-Taught?

#QOTD: Are you going to subscribe to my podcast? YES or NO? #QOTD2: What can I do to make my podcast a TREMENDOUS experience for you? An interesting question was raised here about taking a course/class in order to become a so...
Oct. 12, 2014

How to Pick a Name for Your Business

#QOTD: What's your favorite thing about San Francisco? To me, a name is made. I have some friends that sit around and spend wayyyyy too much time trying to figure out the name for their startup. What did "Google" or "Facebook...
Oct. 12, 2014

Shifting Ad Budgets to Digital Video

#QOTD: What do you think of the 3-question episode vs. the 5-question? Let me know! General statements like "you should move your budget to digital video" scare me. Typically when people think about online video they think ab...
Oct. 10, 2014

How to Keep Your Startup Competitive

#QOTD: Who is the biggest influence in your life right now? As an entrepreneur, I default into assuming it's always going to be competitive. It doesn't matter if "nobody is in your space" because if you're any good, and you'v...
Oct. 8, 2014

What's the Deal With Ello?

#QOTD: Would you pay $10 a month for Ello? Look the bottom line is that Ello raised venture capital. The investors are looking for a return on their investment, so they're going to have to figure out a business model. So the ...
Oct. 8, 2014

Am I an Entrepreneur or Not?

#QOTD: Who is the person that you are SO afraid of letting down, it's keeping you from starting something big? It was so incredible to participate in Dave Ramsey's event. Thanks to everybody who came out, and a HUGE special t...
Oct. 8, 2014

How to Stop Your Industry from Getting Stale

#QOTD - What are the first three sites you look at in the morning? I always find that the best way to attack your own industry and innovate is to spend *zero* time in it. I spent an extreme lack of time in the wine industry, ...
Oct. 8, 2014

Are Kids Using Too Much Tech?

#QOTD: What is your favorite restaurant right this second? If you were to go back to a caveman and ask him what he thinks of our media consumption today, he would reject it. it would be weird and unnatural. But the fact of th...
Oct. 8, 2014

How to Market a Kickstarter Campaign

#QOTD - What are you dressing up as for Halloween? Just because you decided to build a business through Kickstarter doesn't mean you should be thinking about it's promotion differently. Facebook Dark Posts targeting people in...
Oct. 8, 2014

The Big Difference Between Sales and Branding

#QOTD: What will the results of the Jets-Lions game be? Look, I'm a salesman. I'm all about the CTA (Call to action), but at the end of the day we're talking about the difference between sales and branding. Anybody can be a g...
Oct. 8, 2014

Video Views, App Marketing, and Time Management

#QOTD: 1) How do you like your iPhone 6? 2) What do you think about the Ali Baba IPO? I love it when a random question leads me back to my core value: Create content (JAB) to grow the audience, and then sell (RIGHT HOOK) them...
Oct. 8, 2014

Teachers, Gender Equality, and a Wine Review

#QOTD - What's your favorite tailgate food? (Lurkers, I'm looking at you!) A wine review?! THAT'S RIGHT BABY! We're bringing it back to my roots for episode 20. Back to the show, though, I get the gender question a lot, and i...
Oct. 8, 2014

Prepare for War!

#QOTD: Can we make a deal? I want to get my show distribution, and I want to talk to YOU about getting it on your blog. HEY LURKERS! Yes I'm talking to you. My favorite part about the old WLTV days was having a real community...