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Paying Attention to your Business Needs

Pay attention to the things your consumer wants! Your consumer is the one who creates success, you just have to be there to capture it.

Business Culture Shock: How Smart Devices Are Changing Everything

In the future middle men are going to be cut out. New services are going to bring products directly to the consumer, and anybody who doesn’t adapt is going to be left out in the cold. *cough* Blockbuster *cough*

Here’s Why My Business Advice Might not Work with Your DNA

I like to share a lot of my thoughts about how to execute in business. One thing I’m aware of is that these are just the things that work for me. They’ve been historically correct. They’re things that have brought me return on investment. What I’m also aware of is that everybody has their own beliefs, nuances, circumstances, and, most of all, their own DNA. So for all the people watching my videos, or reading my posts, I want to have something to refer to when someone disagrees with me on the basis of circumstance, or doesn’t have success when trying something I’ve recommended. I needed to write this.

The truth is (and has always been, and will always be) that it starts with self-awareness. It starts with really breaking yourself down. The only real gift I have is that, for some unknown reason – be it great parenting, or great DNA – I’ve always known exactly what I was good at. I never worried about what I was bad at. It never even dawned on me to work on my weaknesses. Sure I wanted to round out some things, fix some things to bring them up to some kind of average and make them consumable. But I’ve never ever thought about taking someone’s advice on how to execute. It’s always just been my way. I bought into what worked for me.

So please enjoy my rants and my thoughts, but I implore you, if you decide to execute on my advice (or anybody else’s), you need to self analyze first. Poke holes in your process and find out what has brought you success. In the 16, 18, 40 years of your career, where have you really shined? Whether artistic or calculated, whether black and white or grey, spend just a minute a day on auditing yourself and figuring out your strengths. If you find your strength is salesmanship, or storytelling, or patience, or organization, or human resources, or caring for the end consumer, or your coworkers, then you need to keep paying attention to it. Or if not, then maybe you need to find someone whose abilities map onto yours, try to follow what they do, and make those actions your own.

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Finding Your Perfect Business Relationship

Finding the perfect relationship can create amazing chemistry.

At the end of the day, if you are trying to make it a living, it’s a business. If you don’t know how to run a business, or if you don’t know how to navigate, sometimes it just doesn’t work out!

What’s Driving My Brother AJ and Me to Start Businesses

This was a rare backstage chat with my brother AJ and I. It’s a good look at my POV on context, and what is driving AJ to help build VaynerMedia.

What’s Driving My Brother AJ and I to Start Businesses

This was a rare backstage chat with my brother AJ and I. It’s a good look at my POV on context, and what is driving AJ to help build VaynerMedia.

Happy Fathers Day! A Video for All the Dads Out There.

At the WeWork Q&A where I met Mandy a 9 year old girl who wanted advice for her future business. Mandy if you are reading this I meant it about emailing me!Let this be a lesson to all of you: Bring your kids to events like this!

Stop Complaining! Put in the time!

Time is seriously the only asset you have. If you want to make things work you have to spend that asset wisely. Are you ready to spend one-less hour every week watching Game of Thrones? If not, maybe you need to reevaluate what you’re doing.

How To Become Friends With Gary Vaynerchuck

Q:

@garyvee Here u go: How does garyvee choose his real friends and how does it impact your life? (hope u like the question)

— Adriano Marinelli (@MarinelliSauce) June 7, 2014

A:

I’ve done business with Adriano in the past, and I would consider him a “close acquaintance,” which is probably the root of his question! If he lived in NYC, and I wasn’t so busy 24/7-365 he’d probably go from an acquaintance to a lightweight friend.

Anyway, I think this is a very interesting question. A lot of people talk about social media and numbers like “700 friends,” and get upset with it.

“These aren’t your real friends,” is always the response. Setting aside the subjectivity of what it means to be a “friend” in real life, the idea of having that many connections on a social platform is something that is interesting to think about. The thing that I look at isn’t the increase in the number of “friendships,” but the way that we’re going through the golden era of the acquaintance.

I basically have 20 more friends now than I had in 2009 when I started Wine Library TV. At the same time, I have maybe 17,000 more acquaintances. That is really fascinating to me (and probably the foundation of a more in-depth blog post to come), but let me get back to the original question.

The way I choose my friends is completely predicated on one thing: Life is hard enough, and there are a lot of people in your life that you can’t pick (although I’ve been pretty fortunate in that regard), so when I have the luxury of picking, the number one thing I’m looking for is ease.

Of course I want someone who brings me happiness, and shares my interests, but most of all, I want someone who makes it easy. I want a friendship I don’t have to work for, a relationship that comes naturally. You don’t expect anything, and I don’t expect anything, other than the friendship. That, to me, is gold.

Read more of my writings on MEDIUM and LINKEDIN

[#TBT] Reddit asks, “What wine pairs best with the Taco Bell Crunch Wrap Supreme?”

Remember back in 2012 when Reddit asked me to pair a wine with Taco Bell? If you don’t, you need to watch this clip. It’s a classic, and maybe you’ll learn a little something.