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The Ultimate Flip: How to Find Free Stuff to Sell on Facebook Marketplace, Craigslist, and eBay

Learning how to make money online can be tricky, which is why I wanted to put out an article that can be a resource for anyone and everyone looking to make a few hundred extra bucks on the weekend. As opposed to teaching you how to turn $100 into $1,000 or even $10 into $1,000, I’m going to teach you how to turn $0 into $1,000.

For what feels like the last 30 years, hundreds of people have told me that they can’t pursue their new business idea, their personal brand, or even flip stuff online, because they have “no money to get started.”

@garyvee I wanna start a clothing company, I got many super dope design for youth but I have no money to start it up.

— STORM (@storm_2147) February 18, 2018

@garyvee i have a business plan but no money. i am working to save up money, but i need a lot. any tips? Id give details but character limit

— Marinescu Alex (@MarinescuAlex3) June 2, 2017

The worst part is, despite hating excuses with all my heart, I’ve always had to pander to that response because of the lack of a straightforward workaround. However, that is no longer the case. For the first time in my career, I’ve eliminated the excuse of having no money. It’s called the Craigslist “free” section.

How to flip items online like a pro:

1. Go to Craigslist.

 

2. Under the “for sale” tab, there’s a section called “free”. Click that.

 

3. The “free” section is where people list stuff that they want to get rid of; anything from an old couch or desk to an extra TV or set of dishes. Find someone with something that they don’t want and that you think you could sell.

 

4. Drive to the spot where they want you to pick it up (or take the bus if you don’t have a car).

 

5. Take their thing.

 

6. Go back home.

 

7. Take a picture of it.

 

8. List it on Facebook Marketplace.

 

9. When someone buys it, give it to them.

 

Start making money on the weekends:

Look, I’m already anticipating someone to come in and say “well, it’s going to take you 40 minutes to go pick it up, 40 minutes to get back home, and then 7 minutes to list it on Facebook Marketplace,” but here’s the thing, what are you doing with your time anyways? You’re watching the fucking Spurs game. So, sure, it may take you 87 minutes to make that extra $20, but trust me, that’s a whole lot better than doing whatever it is that you’re doing otherwise.

Sorority estate sale on a Sunday yielded some amazing finds! $120 in cash from all of my flips and I’m up to $250 from today’s items. Almost $1,000 overall. I run a business at 80+ hours/week and still find this time @garyvee we should put out a free slide share on flips pic.twitter.com/TjbUM8Ny2V

— Jacob Williamson (@jacubwilliamson) August 5, 2018

I seriously cannot get this opportunity out of my head because of how ridiculous it is. Using the arbitrage of the internet, by picking up stuff for free and then listing it on Facebook Marketplace, I really think that you can make an extra $300 a week. If you’re taking you 6:00PM to 9:00PM on Monday and Tuesday to go pick stuff up, then listing it online throughout the week, and having people come to your house on Saturday to buy whatever you have listed, it honestly could end up being more than $300 a week.

Here are a handful of people that are killing it in the flip game

Post 4Ds: LONDON Edition // The Return on My 4Ds Investment

How one UK company transformed their business and mindset after spending a day with the VaynerMedia team for the Daily Digital Deep Dive.

The best way for us to talk about what the 4Ds program can do is by showcasing stories of the businesses that have attended. This article focuses on one of our 4Ds Alumni from our most recent session out of our office in London. For anyone on the other side of the pond and throughout Europe who’s wanted access to me and my team or is curious about 4Ds, have a read to hear about a 4Ds Alumni, Paul Gibson’s experience.

Paul Gibson is CEO of Fan Frames the official licensing and eyewear company for many of England’s powerhouse proper football clubs Liverpool, Chelsea, Manchester City, Arsenal, Newcastle, Tottenham, you get the picture. In addition Paul also started Reading123 Monocle Madness and JOIUSS (Launching Soon) based on the white spaces he was seeing in the market for consumer eyewear. While Paul’s primary sales channel has traditionally been retail he’s watched as the internet has shifted consumer behavior and has recognized that brand awareness of his companies would suffer the longer he waited to commit to a social and digital strategy to compliment his retail presence. For any entrepreneur building a business these inflection points always come at pivotal moments and you have the choice to go on offense or on defense. For those who are “on the fence” about “Influencers” or “Facebook Ads” or “Building a Digital Community” or any of the things I speak about in my content I promise you you’re not alone, but I also promise you that ignorance is surely not bliss my friends. Paul is one of the hundreds that has gone through 4Ds and I’m excited to share some of his story. Below we have a Q&A format, if you don’t have time to read the full piece, read through the questions that might be relevant to you, as always I appreciate your time and attention.

WHAT WAS THE MOST VALUABLE PART OF THE 4DS? WHAT SESSION WAS THE MOST BENEFICIAL FOR YOU AND YOUR BUSINESS?

“If I had to choose it would have to be the Paid Media session led by Jeff Nicholson, Chief Media Officer at VaynerMedia.  He’s a true practitioner on the digital media platforms and I enjoyed hearing his backstory about his early days running ads on the Google Adwords platform. The takeaway about starting with the customer first and helping attendees really think through what their sales funnel looks like was very helpful. With all the different media channels out there, it was important for me to gain a fundamental understanding of how a media expert would approach the business problem. Jeff gave me this! The extent to which he cared about each and every person’s business and was able to cross-refer examples and useful pointers was incredible.”

WHAT HAS THE ROI (Return on Investment) OF 4DS BEEN FOR YOU SO FAR?

“A couple of weeks after The 4Ds we decided to drop one of our most expensive licenses. Instantly this saved Fan Frames £100k. Then, within a fortnight, we generated a £120k direct order.  Net-net, this resulted in £220k to invest into our brands as a return on the £10k investment I made in The 4Ds. Now that’s real ROI!”

WAS THERE A KEY TAKEAWAY FROM THE DAY FOR YOU?

“I think I can break this question into two separate areas of impact inspired by Gary’s session, which, for me, tied together all of the thinking during the day…”

The day gave me the confidence to go directly to the customer (on social and digital). It gave me the affirmation to go all in on the land grab opportunity of building a brand on the social channels where customers are spending their time and attention.
The morale boost the 4Ds has had on me and my employees.  I’ve started the process of growing our team, we recruited 2 new employees immediately; a creative and a marketer. To give these two young people an opportunity to grow means a lot to me. I promoted my head of sales to Editor and Chief. I’m giving my team the required training spanning Amazon, to Facebook, and every platform in between. We’re already seeing the signs of customers engaging with our brand more, building a community and strengthening our brand for the long term.

HOW ARE YOU TACTICALLY EXECUTING WHAT YOU LEARNED IN 4DS?

“A media buy we made as a result of attending The 4Ds that I’m particularly fond of, It was a bit of a test, but the cost of entry was so low I just had to give it a whirl! In summary, I decided to place a Fan Frames branded Snapchat geofilter over Wembley Way for the FA Cup Final. It cost me £32 to buy, in return 147.6k fans saw the filter and 1.5k actually used it. The 4Ds helped make me more aware of underpriced attention such as in this example and where to capitalise on it.”

WHAT ARE YOU MOST EXCITED ABOUT?

“Our latest venture TURTLE SAVERS a re-useable drinking straw brand with the ambition to significantly reduce plastic waste in our oceans.  The impact of the 4Ds gave me the confidence to venture outside of my industry, act on my instincts, create IP before distributing products digitally, and market them socially.  All while retaining complete leverage from the start.”

DO YOU HAVE ANY ADVICE FOR OTHERS CONSIDERING THE 4DS?

If you feel the world is changing and you want to be at the forefront of your game, then having the knowledge to scale your digital brand on your own is vital. I can highly recommend that, when you are ready, the 4Ds will substantially impact your ability to do this. I loved the experience and feel well equipped to navigate our business through the extraordinary social landscape in front of all of us.

… if you’re interested in learning more about the 4Ds click here to get in touch with someone from my team or click here to purchase a ticket to our session in London on October 3rd. Space is limited to 12 seats for the day.

VaynerBarter 001

One of the things that I’m fascinated by that has emerged in my world within the last three to five years is the barter economy. Frankly, I genuinely believe that over the next decade or two, as information and technology advance, one of the next eBays, Airbnbs, Ubers, and overall two-way marketplaces will be a bartering system. We’re just going to trade, trade, trade.

I think the exchange of goods and services within the context of people owning stuff that is of less value to them, but of considerable value to others, and vice versa, is an incredible trade. Silly things like you own an extra flat screen T.V that you don’t need, but somebody that’s a gardener does, meanwhile you need gardening services, is an enormous whitespace in our society.

As many of you probably know, I actually come from a trading background; baseball cards, comic books, wine, and garage sale flipping, so I love it! One of the things that has emerged over the past two years is from running VaynerMedia is that I’ve been able to start flirting with the bartering industry, but as you can tell by the title of this article, I’m going to go a little deeper.

Today, I’m going to talk about my needs at VaynerMedia in terms snacks and beverages. Being transparent, we spend a lot of money on snacks and beverages across our four, soon to be five, global offices. The truth is that I know I can offer some snack and beverage suppliers/companies out there significant value in comparison to the cost of the goods that I’m looking for. The details are below, feel free to fill out the form.

P.S, when you fill out this form, bare in mind that if you’re asking for $100K in services from me, I’m going to expect $100K in coffee, chips, etc. in return:

https://garyvee.com/VaynerBarter001

 

xoxo,

G

The GaryVee Content Strategy: How to Grow and Distribute Your Brand’s Social Media Content

Mastering content creation and distribution for your brand on social media is a difficult and long process. But, in an effort to provide you guys with as much value as possible, I’m going to help speed up that process and show you how I do it on a daily basis for my personal brand. Shared below is a powerpoint that my team and I created to help empower and potentially completely shift the way that you think about producing and distributing content online for your brand.

Look, I create a ton of content. I publish a new episode everyday on the GaryVee Video Experience, which is distributed on my YouTube channel, Facebook Watch Page, and IGTV. I then also have a daily podcast called the GaryVee Audio Experience, which is distributed on my iTunes, Overcast, and Stitcher, amongst some other platforms. In addition to what I just mentioned, I continually post “micro content”, that is distributed to my Instagram, Snapchat, LinkedIn, Quora, and many of my other social channels. “Micro content” is created from each episode and is used to drive awareness back to the original long-form content. Long story short, I am constantly creating and posting as much content as possible and in a way that is contextual to each platform.

Because I am producing so much content on a daily basis and in a way that has been proven to be very effective, I want to give you guys the full breakdown and analysis on what it is that I’m doing and how I am doing it. Like one of my favorite quotes, “watch what I do, not what I say“, this is a really good time for you to sit down, grab a cup of coffee, and carefully take note of what it is that I’m doing in this deck.

The ultimate goal of creating this presentation on my content model is to show you how my team took one of my keynotes, repurposed it into 30+ pieces of content, and then successfully distributed all of that content, resulting in over 35,000,000 total views.

I’m very proud of this deck and sincerely hope that it brings you, your team, or your company some serious value.



 

xoxo,

G

Why I’m Going All-In On Twitch

Earlier this year, in mid-March, eSports and Twitch experienced a massive crossover where the macro gaming entertainment scene became widely accepted by the masses because Drake and Ninja got together on Discord and streamed Fortnite.

Now, If you’ve been pretty deep into my content over the past three years, you’ll know that this didn’t come at any surprise to me; I knew that a crossover moment where Twitch and eSports would become a part of pop culture was coming because of the exponential growth of both the Twitch platform and the eSports industry. However, for what is likely the vast majority of you that haven’t been following me closely over the past three years, I had my team put my process of documentation to good use by recalling a myriad of times where I gave my thoughts on Twitch and eSports as a whole and putting them into a short one-minute video.

A post shared by Gary Vay-Ner-Chuk (@garyvee) on Mar 15, 2018 at 4:13pm PDT

Regardless, following this cultural moment with one the biggest music stars in the world and one the biggest gamers in the world, I got drilled with questions across all of my social channels asking for my thoughts on what this meant. As I see it, it is a foregone conclusion that millions of people will watch other people play video games for hours-on-end as a form of entertainment, because that’s already happened. Being said, this means that there is an incredible influx of attention on the Twitch platform, as well as competitors to Twitch, like the Chinese competitor to Twitch, Huya.

In case you were unaware, I undoubtedly believe attention to be one of the most valuable assets in today’s world. Attention is the single prerequisite to accomplishing nearly anything involving another party’s participation. It’s this simple: you can’t sell someone your newest product without first having their attention, you can’t pitch someone your startup without first having their attention, you can’t fundraise for your nonprofit without first having their attention, and you can’t change someone’s perspective in an argument without first having their attention. You can’t execute on virtually any task that requires another group or individual’s participation without their attention.

With that in mind, seeing the ample amount of attention on Twitch, I’ve decided to create my own Twitch channel and in-office Twitch studio. I call it a “Twitch studio”, but to be fair, it’s more of a streaming studio than anything else. I’m going to be using this setup for some of my Facebook streams, Instagram streams, and Twitch Streams. Also, as many of you know, I will never get romantic over a single platform. So, if a competitor to Twitch comes up and starts dominating, I’m not going to stay on Twitch just because I’m starting there, I’ll go wherever that new-found attention is or I’ll start using both platforms. One of the biggest mistakes that I see people making is that people run away from platforms as soon as their on the decline as opposed to continuing to use the previous platform in addition to whatever new platform has become a part of culture. The answer to the question of which platform should I create for is always both.

Even though I announced that I would be joining the Twitch community back in February, as I write this in July, I haven’t attacked this with the execution that I expected, mainly because I’m never really standing still and am always traveling. Even when I am in my office, I’m busy running VaynerX. Nevertheless, I’m salivating to get my Twitch game up. I feel like I’ve been watching the Twitch and eSports landscape from a far for a while now, but I’m happy that I’m getting involved when it feels authentic. I think that when you enter a niche community of any sort, you have to have a value prop that makes your entrance into those communities interesting and widely accepted or authentic. The reason why this is tough for me with Twitch is that I don’t play video games for 18 hours a day like most streamers; thus, I need to provide a value prop. Regardless, I seriously want to dominate Twitch and any other platform where I can stream games.

Obviously, I have the immediate disadvantage of having to run a $150 million dollar company during these efforts, in other words, I won’t be going live every day, but I will be making a sincere effort to be streaming at least once a week on my channel (though I’m grossly underperforming so far). So, if you’re a fan of retro-video games and my overly competitive style, go check me out on Twitch

Blowing Up My Plans to Write a Blog Post on My Analysis of Instagram TV

You see, despite being a 5X New York Times Best Selling Author, Gary actually isn’t a very good writer. Frankly, Gary barely writes in general, with the exception of the captions that he writes for his Instagram posts, yet he can simultaneously speak enough content for a novel in a matter of minutes. For those of you that may not know, in order for Gary to write blog posts and put out content in the written word, we (Team GaryVee) ask him a handful of questions about whatever the topic of the given article is. By giving Gary the format of interview questions, he can still craft his own articles from his POV without actually having to type the words.

The article you’re about to read is similar to an article we made a couple years ago, Content on Content on Content, and serves as an ideal example of how Gary looks to scale his brand’s content production and create content from other pieces of content. To give you the literal breakdown of what this blog post is made up of, this is an article that was made from an article, which was made from a video, which was filmed during the creation and review of an article.

With all being said, a little over a month ago, our team saw news from various online articles that Instagram would be launching a new app called IGTV, which would allow users to post vertical videos up to an hour long in duration. As a result of the news, Gary wanted us to prepare an article on the launch of IGTV and what his take on the platform is so that we could crush it with the SEO for Gary’s blog and be a first mover in the space.

After we spent some time getting the article together, we didn’t actually get the opportunity to sit down with Gary to review the article until two weeks later because he was in Cannes, France for the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, plus a lot of what we had anticipated on mattering for IGTV didn’t exactly meet our expectations. However, when we did finally sit down with Gary, he came to the conclusion that the original IGTV article wasn’t one that he actually wanted to write because he would be making a ton of assumptions in order to actually publish anything meaningful. During our meeting time for the article, we came to the conclusion that we were going to scratch our original plan for this article and write an all encompassing take on how we got to this point in the first place and Gary’s $0.02 on his content strategy and Instagram TV. That article is here:

Why I Haven’t Come Out with My Thoughts on IGTV

I love getting meta with my content. For those of you that understand my content distribution model well, it shouldn’t come as a surprise to you that this article was made from a video, which was recorded during the creation of an article with my team.

To give you some context, Instagram recently launched a mobile-centric long-form video platform called “IGTV” (Instagram Television). IGTV is a standalone app that has a discovery feed integrated into Instagram. This basically means that when you’re on Instagram, you’ll be able to go to an explore section and find long-form content curated for you by the IGTV algorithm based off of your interests and people you follow, which will then take you to the IGTV app.

Simply put, a few weeks ago, when IGTV was announced, I had my team put together an article covering the app so that we could take advantage of the initial buzz and crush it on the SEO aspect for my blog. What ended up happening is that shortly into the process of reviewing the article, I realized that in order to execute on my initial plan, I was going to have to make some pretty big assumptions if I really wanted to give my $0.02 on the new platform. The issue is that I don’t have an opinion on IGTV yet, and I’m not in the prediction businesses.

Look, yes IGTV is here, but the platform hasn’t been out long enough and there hasn’t been enough going on with it for me to give anyone an opinion on it. I know that I have a reputation for frequently being right with my “predictions”, but all of the “predictions” that I’ve made in the past were given after I was thoughtful about whatever I was talking about and things were already obvious. Frankly, there’s just nothing obvious about IGTV yet. Sure, I could have continued with the article that my team prepared and just guessed on what could happen with IGTV, but I’m not a pundit and that would put me in a vulnerable position that I don’t want to be in. On the flip side, I can wait until I have a better understanding of IGTV and then give everyone my informed opinion down the line, which increases the likelihood of me being correct.

Again, I really don’t have a materialized opinion on the IGTV platform, but I can give you my surfacelevel thoughts. For starters, I think that Instagram really overestimated how much TV teenagers actually watch when they said in their IGTV announcement that teenagers are watching 40% less TV now than they did five years ago; I honestly don’t think teenagers are watching TV, period. Aside from that, I’m a little surprised that Instagram decided to launch a completely separate app as opposed to just including long-form video in Instagram itself; long-form video in Instagram would have crushed, and I still believe that to be the case. Instead of implementing long-form video into Instagram itself, they decided to directly attack YouTube, which makes sense given that they’re coming out of a very successful attack on Snapchat. Also, let’s bare in mind that YouTube is not very mobile-friendly. Take it from someone who hasn’t owned a computer in three years, YouTube is not optimized for mobile. Instagram is obviously trying to go the extra mile in becoming mobile by making IGTV a vertical video app, but aside from that, they really just have to win on having a mobile-friendly UI.

To put things into perspective, this is the same reason why Twitter was able to grow so much in the shadow of Facebook; Twitter was mobile-friendly while Facebook was for desktop. To say the least, Facebook was pretty slow to adapt to the change to mobile devices. In the same sort of light, I actually think that Tumblr could have been what Instagram is now had Tumblr been more mobile-centric. Tumblr was really slow in their transition to mobile, which is what gave Instagram so much room to grow into what it is today. With this in mind, it seems pretty smart for IGTV to go after YouTube since the YouTube app really isn’t all that great.

Moving past my immediate thoughts on IGTV and Instagram’s execution of the platform, there’s the obvious follow up question of “should you distribute your content on IGTV?”. The simple answer is of course you should, it’s more attention and exposure. What’s the downside? Look, Instagram really wants IGTV to work so that they can potentially take a piece of the market for long-form video on mobile from YouTube. So, I think that if you start uploading your content in a way that’s native to IGTV, or if you start creating content specifically for IGTV, that you’ll probably do pretty well.

To quickly recap, just because I know that I’ll get a few more clicks or reads for having an article out on IGTV when it launches (or any new app/technology for that matter) doesn’t mean that I’m going to do it. I would much rather take the time to develop an understanding for the platform before I give anyone my thoughts on it. It’s the same reason why I have a reputation for being historically correct; I wait until I feel it in the culture of our society or until I have a really good sense of where things are going.

A Facebook Live Event: Apparel & Footwear Marketing in 2018

VaynerNation, as most of you might know, in the last 8 months I’ve released three different sneakers with K-Swiss and I’ve announced that my fourth signature shoe with them, appropriately titled ‘Clouds and Dirt’, is releasing July 16th.

All of this involvement with K-Swiss has got me thinking, and from engaging with all of you over the years, I know my community has a lot of heart and interest in understanding how to grow an apparel brand, be it sneakers, hoodies, t-shirts, etc.

So .. with that .. I wanted to do something special for you all which I’m dubbing ‘Apparel and Footwear Marketing in 2018.’ It’ll be a three hour livestream held on June 12th from 2:30 – 5:30 PM EST consisting of an open conversation about my take on what we’re doing with K-Swiss and how I’ve been able to scale that relationship, but more importantly, what anyone living in 2018 with the ambition of growing an apparel brand should be focusing on in order to get their business to where they want it to be.

And as you saw in 2016 with my #AskGaryVee Book Super-8 livestream, this one might just get a little crazy too. I’ll be going live on all major livestreaming platforms so expect to have some fun with me

Cheering for Optimism and The Internet

Listen, If there is anything I could wish on you, more than my work ethic, or my energy, or my charisma, it would be the mindset and perspective of how good life really is. I for one, was born in the former Soviet Union, with no internet and no capitalism to save me. Due to my circumstances and the reality that I immigrated to the US in 1978 and was somehow perfectly parented without the aircover to dwell or complain, I became rooted in a foundation of gratitude and a level of perspective and practicality that changed my life and behavior permanently.

Many of us are complaining and we don’t realize that this is the single greatest era to be alive in human history. It’s almost a non-debate.

You Literally Have More Opportunity Than Ever

Everything points to the fact that the world is getting better. There’s more opportunity than ever because the internet changed everything. At the most macro, I point to things like the internet adding 1.7 billion users since January 2012! That’s 88% growth in terms of total internet accessibility. Additionally, in that time, 864 million people have joined a social network, gaining access to more information, entertainment, and community online. Since 1900, the global life expectancy has more than doubled. People are living longer and global health is improving. Global conflict has also dramatically declined. These facts, and many more clearly articulate the positivity and optimism I see that the world truly better than it was before.

Not only has life expectancy, poverty, illness and conflict dramatically improved from generations past, we now have a truly limitless playground called “the internet” to connect, create, learn, and work from at every second of every day. Just 30 years ago, if you hated your job, your life, your friends, or your town, you had nowhere to go. Now, with the internet, and especially the advent of the smartphone, you can use the device in your pocket to find new friends, colleagues, communities, job opportunities, entertainment or even the tools you need to build your own business while laying naked in bed. The internet and the opportunities it’s granted us are ludicrous and I hope this article can get at least one person to take a step back and recalibrate their perspective.

And obviously with an article title like “The Greatest Year To Be Alive” I understand that there are subtleties and nuances up for debate. But on a macro scale, things are just better than they’ve ever been. Trust me, I am enormously empathetic to the strifes and struggles that are happening all over. I’m not blind to the reality that horrendous things still happen but I challenge you to understand the fact that because of the enormous amplification and distribution of this information through the internet does it appear that we are being bombarded with bad news everyday … It used to be that you only heard about the news in your town and maybe the town over. Even with newspapers, we were operating on information at a state or national scale and we had to actively subscribe or purchase a physical copy to stay in the loop. Today, the world has gone global and there’s more info than ever being presented to us at all times. But, there’s also a flipside to this proliferation of information and access too. We now have more opportunity than ever and for once, we actually have an alternative.

You Have Limitless Alternatives – Don’t Complain

30 years ago, your grandparents couldn’t build a business from the comfort of their own home, or on the way to work riding on the bus or train. Your grandparents couldn’t consume content and learn about entrepreneurship from a hundred different sources while grabbing groceries and listening to a podcast on their wireless earphones. Most of your grandparents would probably struggle to have 500 people listen to their opinion in their lifetime, and now we complain about having “only 10,000 views or only 10,000 followers online.” The distribution and disruption that the internet has enabled for us all is insane.  

Now anyone with the access to the internet has a legitimate alternative. An alternative to what content they consume and when they consume it. An alternative to which friends they associate with or want to communicate with all across the world. An alternative to where you work, how you work, and with whom you work at any given moment. With social media and the smartphone we have a choice. We have infinite alternatives.

. My parents never supported me. – My teachers sucked. – My neighborhood was a mess. – I grew up too rich and was handed everything and am now soft. – All the attention went to my older sister. – We had no money. – My boss sucks. – My job doesn’t value me. – I’m in huge college debt. – My wife doesn’t support me. – My boyfriend doesn’t think I can do it. – Everyone will laugh. – The love I have for this instagram community is immense, I wish I have the chance to meet, hug, show love to all of you, but if I don’t get the chance please my friends understand one thing, #accountability and a lack of #dwelling is the quickest path to #success and #happiness Xoxox – Signed – #garyvee

A post shared by Gary Vay-Ner-Chuk (@garyvee) on Apr 22, 2018 at 7:48am PDT

The cost of starting a business or producing content in today’s digital age is dramatically lower than it’s ever been. The processor in the iPhone is millions of times of times more powerful than the computer that first took the US to the moon. Yes, the moon, my friends… If I wanted to produce a long form video show to mirror my vlog, and a radio show to mimic my podcast, and billboards to mimic my images on Instagram, I would have to spend millions of dollars just 20 years ago. Today, the barrier to entry is practically zero. If you have a smartphone and access to the internet, you are in the game. You can document, create and distribute, at scale, through Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, Snapchat, LinkedIn, Twitch, iTunes and many other platforms for pretty much free.

If you don’t have capital, you can literally go to the Craigslist free section and start picking up and selling items on other marketplaces, for close to free. If you don’t have the gratitude and perspective to appreciate that then you’re not in the right headspace to win. The reason I push so hard on developing this perspective and mindset is because it’s absolutely the foundation of a winning career.

How to ACTUALLY Make Money for Free | The Craigslist "Free" Section

This video will literally change your life.