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We're in the podcasting business! I've taken my new show, The #AskGaryVee Show, and turned it into an audio version for your listening pleasure. 

The #AskGaryVee Podcast

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I recorded a track by track explanation of each track from the "Songs To Break Up To" EP. Hopefully it gives you some insight on how and why it was made.
To me, it was more than just a musical project & i hope you felt that. I ramble a little so i made it a free download. 

I want to thankyou everyone who has supported the EP in their own way. 
Truly humbled and appreciative of it all. Much love.

Still available here : 
BANDCAMP: bit.ly/1fdl6UN
iTUNES: bit.ly/GSu9LG

INTERVIEW : SongsToBreakUpTo

In this episode we talk about getting familiar with Facebook advertising, my love for my family, and the magic of red-headed quarterbacks. On top of that we get into being grateful, being right, and being patient. Three of my favorite things!

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Welcome to The #AskGaryVee show, where I answer your questions about marketing, social media, and entrepreneurship. Want to get on the show? Tweet me your question with #AskGaryVee!

LINKS:
http://allfacebook.com
Music by Rome Fortune - https://soundcloud.com/romefortune



#AskGaryVee Episode 6: Friction Sucks

In this episode I talk about the importance of my wife, my health, and the fact that Brett Favre had a brief stint as a NY Jet. I also ask the most important question of all: Are you actually bringing value to your consumers?!

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Welcome to The #AskGaryVee Show, where I answer your questions about marketing, social media, and entrepreneurship. Want to get on the show? Tweet me your question with #AskGaryVee!

LINKS:
My Instagram: http://instagram.com/garyvee
SUBSCRIBE: http://youtube.com/garyvaynerchuk
Music by Rome Fortune - https://soundcloud.com/romefortune


#AskGaryVee Episode 4: Personal Branding and Brett Favre

Episode three already! This time around I'm talking about what my father taught me about building businesses. I also talk about the future, building local startups, and how small businesses can conserve their cash. 

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Welcome to The #AskGaryVee show, where I answer your questions about marketing, social media, and entrepreneurship. Want to get on the show? Tweet me your question with #AskGaryVee!

LINKS:
How to get advertisers on your blog - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgvjT...
Download Resy - http://resy.com
Terroir - http://restauranthearth.com/terrior/T...
Corkbuzz - http://corkbuzz.com/
Music by Rome Fortune - https://soundcloud.com/romefortune


#AskGaryVee Episode: 3 Small Businesses with Itsy Bitsy Cash

Guys THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A BORING BUSINESS! Do you have any idea how many people are in the market for DIY content? A hardware store is literally DROWNING in potential content. Also in this episode, I get into how music producers can use social media to market their products. Watch now!

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Welcome to The #AskGaryVee show, where I answer your questions about marketing, social media, and entrepreneurship. Want to get on the show? Tweet me your question with #AskGaryVee!

LINKS:
How to get advertisers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgvjT...
Buy my book: http://bit.ly/jjjrhamazon
Watch episode one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76d0l...
Music by Rome Fortune: https://soundcloud.com/romefortune



#AskGaryVee Episode 2: Tools, Sheep, and Rihanna

Welcome to the first episode of my new show! This is the perfect way to start things off as we get into some nitty gritty about long-term business goals, Facebook dark-posts, and even non-profits. This is the beginning of a new era, my friends. Get ready!


#AskGaryVee Episode 1: How to Utilize Native Ad Platforms

Kevin and Julia Hartz discuss what it really takes to be a thriving startup organism in challenging ecosystems. As well as sharing insights from the early founding days of Eventbrite, the husband and wife co-founders explain the importance of continual focus on cultivating talent, maintaining sustainable advantages, and driving relentless evolution inside a company.

Kevin Hartz, Julia Hartz - Optimal Traits and Sustainable Advantages

Author and leadership educator Liz Wiseman shares why cultivating a "rookie mindset" is an advantage in a rapidly changing world. Wiseman presents insights from her books, Rookie Smarts and Multipliers, including frameworks and techniques for how entrepreneurs, leaders and employees can embrace a life of constant learning and build a passion for multiplying the genius of those around them.

Liz Wiseman - The Power of Not Knowing

#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've figured something new out, EVERYBODY is going to be in your space eventually. 

To me, competition between startups is the same old game: Better product, better service, better execution. Those are the things that will drive your business. 

When you're David, you shouldn't play Goliath's game. When you're Goliath, you should CRUSH David.

Here's an example: Did anybody think it was weird that, for three years, I NEVER mentioned VaynerMedia. The truth there was that my size (or my lack thereof) was my advantage, and I couldn't let these other big guys know how huge we were getting! I was learning the landscape. Now that we've got the money and the scale to compete, you'll see that I'm talking about it more. 

The important thing is to NEVER PLAY THE OTHER PERSON'S GAME.

#AskGaryVee Episode 28: How to Keep Your Startup Competitive

#QOTD: What's your favorite thing about San Francisco?

#LINKS

Making the decision to put myself out there - https://www.garyvaynerchuk.com/my-toughest-decision-752587427.html

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" mean to anybody outside of their inner communities when they weren't the household names we know today? None of these words mean ANYTHING until they're SOMETHING. 

Some people email me saying they don't like their own last name. My response? You're emailing Gary VAYNERCHUK. Let's call it what it is, Vaynerchuk SUCKS. And yea, they'll be those that tell me it's unique and kinda cool, and I get that - BUT, it's only good because I made something out of it. 

And so, what does a name actually mean? To me? NOTHING. 

I actually think a new trend in this short-form world we live in will be that most business names will start getting abbreviated. People used to call me "V-Chuk" because they didn't want to call me by "Vaynerchuk," and that became my slang last name. We will evolve our name to our convenience so long as it brings VALUE. And so, stop worrying about the name and start worrying about the product. 

#ProTip: If your full name is available for a dot-com, go ahead and purchase it. I highly recommend it. 


#AskGaryVee Episode 30: How to Pick a Name for Your Business

Tina Seelig, Professor of the Practice in Stanford's School of Engineering, describes how imagination leads to entrepreneurship, charting the course from rough ideas to polished ventures. Introducing a new framework called the "Inventure Cycle," Seelig captures the attitudes and actions necessary to foster innovation and bring breakthrough ideas to the world.

Tina Seelig - From Inspiration to Implementation

#QOTD: Are you a Vayniac or part of the VaynerNation? What's the difference?

#LINKS
Podcast: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-askgaryvee-show/id928159684?mt=2

Rafeal's Page: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6J6qYtlLQBCT6GOgv7fFAg 

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 and I put in the work. I did the work that allowed me to have the audacity to go out and build the Gary Vaynerchuk brand. 

The notion that there's people out there that are growth hacking, and getting exposure through other people's podcasts, and leveraging the brands of others to build themselves as "experts," is LUDICROUS. What are these people actually experts in? What have they accomplished to be deemed an expert?

Here's what I did and why I think you should listen to me when it comes to business. I am in the midst of building my second $50M plus business in a 5 year window. Is it $50 Billion? No - but it's a very substantial business. I was ahead of the market and I executed. I put in the work, I built up the business at a speed many can't comprehend, and I did the things that allowed me to be worthy enough to have a shot at putting out a $15-20 book and amass the following that I have.

So my question is, what did these self-proclaimed experts do to claim that title? If you want to be an "expert" in your craft you need to be in the trenches, day in and day out. You can't just rely on modern day technology to build up your brand. The notion that people are leveraging these technologies and the brand equity of others to build their name is LAUGHABLE. You need to actually execute. You need to earn the opportunity to be a personal brand. You need to show them the proof. If you're an actual expert the proof should be in your forethought, your wins, and your execution. 



#AskGaryVee Episode 34: How to Build a Personal Brand from Nothing

Nest Co-Founder Matt Rogers explains why careers can be made on taking on the challenges and projects unloved by others. Rogers discusses what he learned working at Apple on the original iPod and iPhone, the importance of not chasing the money when raising capital, and how he and Nest Co-Founder Tony Fadell went about building an innovative consumer electronics company.

Matt Rogers - Tackle Projects Others Don't Want

#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 way I prioritize my time is by making the best judgment call possible in that particular moment in time. I frame my process by selecting two sides of the spectrum: What's the most on fire and needs to be tended to immediately, and what are the more high-level ideas that I can work on and flesh out?

I'll take care of things like employee issues or client concerns (the biggest and most time-sensitive problems) and balance it by going on the offense on the things with the biggest upside, like company culture, visions for the future, buying the Jets ;), etc. 

I never focus on anything in the middle. VaynerNation, I warn you, the MIDDLE is DANGEROUS. Stay away. 


#AskGaryeVee Episode 40: Prioritizing Your Time & Hooking Up

#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 which way possible. The best way to become something is to first act like something. Sell, sell, sell. Understand what it takes to provide value to somebody. Learn how to communicate your value proposition enough so that it registers with your 'customer' allowing for you to accomplish what you've set out to do. 

Go out and find mentors. Go work for free and under people that can show you the ropes and serve as that point of contact when you need it. Learn the hustle and taste the game. Put yourself in the position to win. You can read as many books as you'd like, but they're not going to make you an entrepreneur. The only way to become something is through doing. 

And so, start hustling. Start doing whatever it takes. Even if that means selling the very shirt off your back.

#AskGaryVee Episode 41: Pet Peeves, Young Entrepreneurs, and Overcoming Fear

Entrepreneur and venture capitalist Ben Horowitz shares which entrepreneurial skills truly matter, and why learning to manage well may be the most critical skill of all. Horowitz, a founding partner of Andreessen Horowitz, discusses the value of learning inside a large company, some of the exciting technology frontiers ahead, and the purpose and philosophy of his firm, in conversation with Stanford Engineering Professor Tom Byers.

Ben Horowitz, Tom Byers - Nailing the Hard Things

once again , here's another free track in honor of the new year!
this is the 2nd version of the "startup" i uploaded for new years last year 
i hope you guys love this!

startup 3.0 next year!

Startup 2.0

People, passion, perseverance. Former AOL CEO and Chairman Steve Case describes these words as the bedrock of successful entrepreneurship. Heading into what may be a "golden era of entrepreneurship," he says that he relies on the "three p's" as assessment tools to help guide his direction and goals. When all of the three parts are in balance, an entrepreneur can achieve success like that of AOL; when they aren't, you get the failure of the AOL-Time Warner merger.

Steve Case - People, Passion, Perseverance: You've Got Entrepreneurship

It is said that entrepreneurship is a way of life. Goncalo Vasconcelos, a Cambridge MBA entrepreneur, talks about the life and business choices that led him to growing his idea, the Syndicate Room, in Cambridge.

An interview with Conrad Chua, Head of Marketing and Admissions for the Cambridge MBA.

Cambridge MBA Goncalo Vasconcelos: Entrepreneurship is a way of life

Family 1st! but after that, Businessman. Just a dude that Loves the Hustle, People & the @NYJets. CEO of @vaynermedia. Tasted wine for years at @winelibrary