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Awesome post, Ellie. I hope at some point I'll get to hear Gary speak. He sounds like an exceptional guy.
Everything he says makes a lot of sense to me, except this little bit: "If your company, product, etc. is broken, don't spend time controlling your message, spend your time fixing your message."
If your company or product is broken, you can't spend time fixing your message. People will see right through that. You need to fix your company or product.
Rick Burnes u are 10000% right maybe my brain was broke for a sec because that what I meant, the PRODUCT
@garyvee -
I'm listening to your audio presentation as I type. Always learning...but still baffled how you keep up with it all. How do you pick and choose which comments to reply to and which to "ignore?" Rick Burnes calls you out (above) at 10:13AM and you reply 4 minutes later. Dude. Learn me.
dj
twitter.com/djwaldow
@DJ -- seriously. frickin amazing. i'd like to be learned, too.
Thanks for posting Ellie!
I really enjoy listening to Gary's keynotes and other presentations because they are motivational, real, and straight from the heart. He lives everything he talks about in his speeches and he lives it every day. If anyone gets a chance to go down to Wine Library, it's incredible to see what he has done with it...it's not like any liquor/wine store you've ever been to before!
I'm looking forward to seeing how he shakes up the NFL when he buys the Jets! :-)
Ellie, wow you fantasticallyl quick on getting this up - glad to see that you took Gary's words to action!
Jason certainly is correct about being sucked in to this keynote. Gary's almost football coach style delivery as well as his passion on his topic makes for some entertaining and educational listening.
DJ, I think Gary's point is that to succeed you must respond to all comments and "ignore" none.
@Eric -
Yeah...I get the part about "ignore none," but HOW? Is that realistic?
dj
@DJ
You work a 12-15 hr day and spend a good chunk of it responding to "people" and not "comments". Realistic for most...maybe? To Gary, yep (for now)!
@Eric
Fair enough. I'd guess that is what GaryVee would say too.
Gary - where you at?
dj
Thanks for posting Elle!
Back at the office & needed to hear GaryVee again:)
Nice meeting you finally!
-Elizabeth Hannan
Thanks for all the comments - glad to see that Gary's enthusiasm can still reach people even when not seeing him live. Please continue to share!
I think every comment on the web is impossible even for !e ;) But every e-mail shouldn't be or @ reply ect...BUT it is, so my answer is....TRY! People appreciate effort!
@garyvee -
Thanks for your answer...
I am taking your advice to heart (about TRYING), starting, uh. NOW.
Thanks for your inspiration.
@djwaldow
@Rick Burnes,
I think what he is trying to say is be more authentic in fixing your message, not just tweaking it with the same BS.
Ellie, thanks for posting Gary's keynote. It was stellar and inspiring.
@DJWaldow, I suspect Gary has a monitoring system in place (or he saw it on Twitter, a Google alert, etc.). Any company engaged in this space should so they can respond.
Ellie, Thanks so much for posting this. I'm planning to save it so whenever I start feeling sorry for myself about just how hard work can be, I remind myself that anything worth having IS hard, but passion makes it worthwhile. Thanks to Gary for the inspiration.
The quality is awful and really detract from being able to follow the presentation. Is there a better copy of this anywhere?
Sam,
I am working with the video guy from the DMM to get a good clean copy. If I get it I will for sure post it. It was a killer speech and really needs to be seen by everyone..
-Joshua
Thank you for posting this, Ellie. I am always glad to see that those who can make it to or see Gary speak are thoughtful enough to help those who can't.
More and more marketers are realizing that it's not enough to simply talk AT their readers, but to talk TO them and get them engaged in a synergistic conversation.
"Stop whining that main street is not here. Start cheering that it's not."
Awesome.
Great inspirating to get out there and stay out there. Thanks for sharing!
The more I watch guys like Gary Vaynerchuk, Tim Ferris, and all of the online marketing gurus, the more apparent it becomes to me that new media is going to be SOOO much more inclusive of long tail subjects.
The fact that so many people can have highly profitable, and highly efficient little media companies is quite intriguing. There's always going to be room for the big guys covering the subjects appealing to the lowest common denominator, but I think that the "monopolistic" benefits of big traditional media offerings are starting to erode as the barriers to entry get lower and lower.