Yesterday I had the great fortune of getting to interview wine expert, entrepreneur and all around great guy Gary Vaynerchuk. I’ve been following him online since 2009, first as a fan of WineLibrary TV and also as someone who really admires his tenacity, drive and understanding of what it takes to build relationships and make…
Last night I had a chance to spend a some quality time with Sean Fanning and Sean Parker’s new app, Airtime which has been getting a lot of buzz the past few days since it launched. For those of you who don’t know, Airtime is an easy to use video chat client that runs right…
I’ve seen most of Gary Vaynerchuk’s keynotes over the years either online or even live. He’s an amazing speaker but I think that this keynote he gave at the Inc. 500 really stands out. Great stories and points regarding drawing lines in the sand with the way your business operates, social media, and customer service.…
I’ve been thinking quite a bit lately about the different types of pay walls and freemium services that exist throughout the web and the likelihood of people ponying up to pay for content. It’s a fundamental issue of supply and demand. With an infinite amount of content, does the value of most content drop to…
This was the 2nd year I’d heard Gary Vaynerchuk speak at SXSW and he brought the house down again. I filmed the keynote (broken down into 4 parts) and posted them all to YouTube. The quality also gets better as it goes on. Part 1 is below, and links to the additional sections are below…
One of the highlights of SXSW was Gary V.’s keynote. Had the pleasure of meeting him briefly as well as rushing to the secret tasting he did with @Katiebisbee. Sometimes I dread Q and A but the audience questions were awesome this time around. That being said, I’ve finally uploaded the entire Keynote (7 parts)…
Whether it’s a new product or service – the power of free goes a long way. Think about Sun Microsystem’s embracing of Open Source or VaynerMedia giving away all the assets and source code for a their custom FaceBook tab or bloggers like Seth Godin and Chris Brogan giving away actionable and inspiring info on…
There was a really interesting and insightful video from Gary V. about how the explosion of social media has changed customer expectations. He talks about how brands & celebrities are embracing the same social networks that we are, and that there is also now an expectation of interaction buy the consumer. If I think a…