Episodes

Feb. 24, 2015

Podcasts, Sick Days, & Viral Videos

Published on Feb 23, 2015 #QOTD: I need a state of the union from you guys on the show. How are you feeling about it? What do you want to see from me? I’d also like a little banter. Accepted topics are the following: the Oscars, my Monday morning video, or being sick. #LINKS MONDAY VIDEO: https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=... SUBMIT A QUESTION: https://www.garyvaynerchuk.com/what-y... There is a lot of potential in podcasts. The only reason I'm not all in right now is because I'm too busy....
Feb. 18, 2015

Podcasting, Building Legacy & The Chamber of Commerce

#QOTD: What are you focusing on the MOST right now?#SIDE QOTD: What do you want from me, AGV wise? :)#LINKSSubmit a question! https://www.garyvaynerchuk.com/what-y...Is there a risk in giving away your best work for free? Of course. Giving away awesome work for free has been my gateway drug to so many great opportunities. But best work needs to be defined for the category you're in. I'm blown away by the amount of people who don't realize that their best advice is exactly what you should give aw...
Feb. 17, 2015

Casey Neistat on Applying to College & How to Focus on Goals

#QOTD, CASEY: What is your greatest fear, and why?#QOTD, GARY: Are you a YES person or a NO person?#LINKShttps://www.youtube.com/user/caseynei...
Feb. 11, 2015

24 Business Questions Answered in Under 24 Minutes

#QOTD: What's YOUR spirit animal? #TIMESTAMPS 0:49 - If you’re not from an English speaking country, should you produce content in English to reach a higher number of people, or should you produce content in the native language of your country? 1:42 - Trader Joe’s has a cult like following with no social media presences. What are your thoughts? 2:34 - My little sister has Insta and Snapchat but has no interest in FB. What do you think the future holds for FB? 4:03 - Morale in public educati...
Feb. 10, 2015

Being a College Student, Mom & Actor

#QOTD: What is your Snapchat username? - Follow me @GaryVee #LINKS Buy JJJRH on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Jab-Right-Hook-Story-Social/dp/006227306X PleaseRobMe Foursquare Reference: http://mashable.com/2010/02/17/pleaserobme/ #TIMESTAMPS 01:31- Looking for a job out of college is tough, specially in marketing finding one that is not sketchy. How do you find a job that is the right fit? 04:29-How would you advise a young woman to brand herself on YouTube if she's worried about privacy a...
Feb. 6, 2015

Monetizing Media Sites, Sad Super Bowl Ads & Solid Data

#QOTD: What question would you really like to ask me based on Steve's last question that you've never asked me? Meaning: can you come up with an interesting question for me? #LINKS Submit a question: https://www.garyvaynerchuk.com/what-youll-need-to-get-garyvee-945936926.html All of my strategy is completely intuition. Why? Because if you look at my twenty year career, most of it has been guessing, and, I'd like to think, projecting where the market is going to go. There was no data on what e...
Feb. 4, 2015

Optimizing Hashtags, Recycling Old Content & Bookstore Marketing

#QOTD: What animal scares the crap out of you?#LINKSOne Is Greater Than Zero: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fsYW...GaryVee Loves Twitter Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUy45...Ask a question: https://www.garyvaynerchuk.com/what-y...http://instagram.com/joshguilar/<br style="color: #333333; font-family: arial,
Feb. 4, 2015

How to Fire an Employee, Wine Distribution Business, Managing Social Media

#QOTD: Give me your 2 cents on the "One is Greater Than Zero" Film - http://youtu.be/4fsYWXrGGcE#LINKSONE IS GREATER THAN ZERO: http://youtu.be/4fsYWXrGGcEASK GARY A QUESTION: https://www.garyvaynerchuk.com/what-y...I've talked about not being crippled by hiring anybody, because if they aren't good you can just fire them. But for the first 15 years of my career I was not good with this. I hated it, there is nothing positive to firing anyone, I would always justify an excuse for them. I've learne...
Feb. 3, 2015

One is Greater than Zero

It baffles me to see how many people think they are bigger than they actually are. People will ask me questions like "How do I get into the New York Times?" or "How do I get a meeting with that CEO?" My reply? One is better than zero. You need to be thinking about the steps it takes to actually get to the biggest places in the world. Before you get that meeting with Zuckerberg or Mark Cuban, or whoever you want to meet with, you need to have a lot of little meetings. You have to build up your...
Feb. 3, 2015

Top Line Revenue and Niche Advertising on Instagram!

#QOTD: Where Are You Consuming The AskGaryVee Show? iPhone? IPad? Tv? or Computer? Where? If you're looking to try and sell ads on your Instagram account, first up you need the followers - the scale - to support bringing in real money. You need to spend the next 6-12 months actively acquiring new users. Then the answer is YES. It's totally fine to be making an ad once every 7 Instagram videos (remember, Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook). But you need to make the stuff entertaining. Think like 1950's ad...
Jan. 30, 2015

Breweries, Books, & Super Bowl Predictions

#QOTD: Rank these four platforms in order of YOUR preference: Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, and Instagram.Last night, I started using Twitter's new video reply feature. That platform is playing a lot more with video. When I first started putting out content in 2006, it was video because that felt most natural to me. The best way I could communicate. But it was hard for me to execute on it. In 2007 and 2009, I would carry a Flip Cam around with me and use that as my main medium. The fact that I ca...
Jan. 28, 2015

Yik Yak, DNA, & Dinner with Winston Churchill

#QOTD: Which historic figure would you like to have dinner with? ;)#TIMESTAMPS01:23 - In episode 63, you say you watch and can tell if people are hustling. How do you tell? Engagement, frequency, or gut? 07:00 - What are your thoughts on the marketing opportunities in the new app Yik Yak? 09:33 - We spend all of our time pouring our creativity into projects for our clients so that when it’s time to shift gears and focus on our brand, we’re fucking exhausted. How do you keep it burning for both? ...
Jan. 26, 2015

Winter Storm Juno & Viral Marketing on No Budget

#QOTD: New York is about to get CRUSHED by a blizzard, so I want to hear about your favorite memory from a snow day. Social Media is the plumbing to the word of mouth in our society. If you make a great product and you can get people to taste it, both literally and metaphorically, then there's a tremendous opportunity for your name to spread on its own. There are tons of brands that don't spend on marketing and win simply by making a great product that people can't help but talk about. In this...
Jan. 22, 2015

Franchising, Open Courses & Cash or Exposure

#QOTDPart 1: Give me your feedback, are you excited about instagram bringing a visual element to the show? Part 2: Are you going to submit a question via instagram? If you are building a consumer facing business, like a restaurant for example, then a franchise is a great thing to do. But, something to ask is—are you trying to franchise your name? A lot of people have tried to franchise me. Yeah. Me. As in Garyvee. I got so many pitches when “Crush It” came out in 2010. People wanted to build cou...
Jan. 14, 2015

Hiring Friends, Funerals, & The Reality Distortion Field

#QOTD: What is your favorite morning beverage? I think that "hustle" is something that you're born with. Let me explain.Work ethic is definitely a trait people are born with but ultimately I think that the hustle meter is fundamentally affected by who the work you're doing is for. Sure, if you work for yourself, it's really easy to give yourself that high grade hustle. However, if you work for someone else, I think your attitude and effort are solely based on how inspired you are and how protect...
Jan. 13, 2015

Dress Codes, Meditation, & Horrible Wine

#STATEMENTOFTHEDAY: I want you guys to reach out to one person that you haven't spoken to in over a year. I'm serious. And for you over-achievers, try and think of somebody you haven't spoken to in more than 5 years and give them a call. I want you to comment and let me know who that person is and what happened when you hit them up. You'll thank me later :)The brilliance of this show (#humblebrag) is that when people look back and realize what I've done (and what I'm doing), they'll notice I'm c...
Jan. 5, 2015

Motivating Employees & Marketing Automation

#QOTD: Can I get your wine business? YES? NO?#QOTD2: What are you looking forward to in 2015?The best way to push employees above their own means is to guilt them into it. Everybody is driven by things, so first and foremost, you need to use your ears and listen. You need to sit down with your employees and understand where they want to take their careers. What’s their ambition? By sitting down with people and actually listening, you’ll be able to set up your employees for success in order to ac...
Dec. 26, 2014

How to Win in 2015: New Year's Motivation

Hustle: The Most Important Word Ever Video can be watched here: http://youtu.be/PIJElPStJpg?list=UUctXZhXmG-kf3tlIXgVZUlw
Dec. 20, 2014

Working with Clients, Avoiding the Middle, & Scooter Braun Asks a Question

#QOTD: How much do you hate DRock?The middle is the commoditized work that everybody does. What I mean by this is that everybody winds up doing what the market calls for. They're focusing on what's popular in the moment and not focusing on where the market's going. I can't tell you how many times I get pitched by startups doing the same thing everyone else is doing and singing the same old song. What I want to hear about are those that are in the trenches doing the hard work - the nitty gritty; ...
Dec. 17, 2014

Christmas Shopping, How to Sell Wine, & Instagram Followers

#QOTD: What's your Instagram handle? Look, when VaynerMedia was in its earlier days, our website was garbage. It almost looked as if we were going out of business and I know that. That's on me. At that point in time I didn't think we needed to showcase the work we were doing, or the clients we working on, or any accolades we could have showed off. We just needed to focus. The point here is that everything I do, and everything that you do, needs to have strategy behind it. The strategy at the t...
Dec. 16, 2014

Introverts, Guy Kawasaki, & The GaryVee Movie

#QOTD: Where do you watch or listen to the #AskGaryVee Show? I think that Instagram and Twitter are tremendously different. Look, Twitter is the town hall, the cocktail party of the social world. When things happen in the world and there’s breaking news, we’re running to Twitter not Instagram – we want the chatter, not the images. However, I do believe that Instagram has found a way (at least up til now) to gain the most attention from the consumer where we've found ourselves looking at those p...
Dec. 15, 2014

Leaders, Podcasts, & Young Entrepreneurs

#QOTD: How old are you? Check out my new video channel on 5by!http://5by.com/garyveeThere is zero doubt in my mind that I can run ANY company. I'm a reverse engineer, through and through. Heck, I don't know anything about 99% of the businesses out there, but I believe that it would take me only about 6 months to absorb the information - the data, the numbers, the culture, etc. - and reverse engineer the business to get it to a point where I can run with it. I'd take a look at the marketplace, un...
Dec. 12, 2014

Marketing Agencies, Ashton Kutcher, & Hot Cocoa

**Listen Up: Ashton Kutcher's on this one!!** Enjoy :) #QOTD: Which social network are you hottest on RIGHT now?Agencies in the market for awards is nonsense. I've been talking about this for a while in the halls of this world and within our industry. At the end of the day, these agencies are being hired to do work for THEIR CLIENTS, not for themselves. They're being hired to tell a story on behalf of the brand they're working for which in turn is supposed to sell sh*t. Agencies are using their ...
Dec. 11, 2014

Values, Selfies, & Cornhole

**WARNING: DO NOT end this episode early. Stay tuned 'til the last second. You won't regret it.** Hint for you podcast listeners: ASHTON KUTCHER#QOTD: Give me some feedback on the new settings of the show. How do you like us filming on the 15th floor? -- Since you all can't see what's going on, check out the YouTube episode and let me know what you think!!THINGS I VALUE: I'm a humungous fan of patience. Lack of patience has caused so many people to not achieve the upside that they deserve and th...