#AskGaryVee Episode 230: SaltyVee Episode 1

– This guy’s wearing
a Chiefs fuckin’ hat. – but self-discipline
can be even as important. How do you continue to be self disciplined each day especially how did
you stay self disciplined in the early stages of your entrepreneurship journey when the results
might not be there? Chiefs 20, Jets 17.
Thanks. – There’s just no options Alex. I stayed self disciplined
because I wanted to win. People talk about wanting to win
but they don’t actually want to win and they’re not willing
sacrifice to win and so I did it ’cause there was no, there
was never a moment in my time whether it’s hardwiring or
understanding of the situation. There was never situation
where I thought that not being disciplined or wavering was in
my best interest and so I think when you’re
fundamentally patient, as I am, it makes everything quite easy. Everybody’s just antsy. Antsy for shit to happen
so soon so it came very easy. – [Dunk] Next
question is from Daniel.

DRock or whoever is editing
this please hook me up with my Twitter handle,
I appreciate that. My question to you Gary is I’ve
just headhunted for position at Facebook but I’m currently
running a small but growing digital marketing agency in the
UK called KPS Digital Marketing do I stop what I’m doing with my
agency and get some one else to manage it and then go and
work at Facebook to get the experience or do I ignore the
position at Facebook and carry on hustling and doing what
I’m doing with my growing digital marketing agency? – [Gary] Daniel,
that’s a personal question. – I appreciate your answer. – That’s a personal question. I can’t answer that for you. You need to know who you
are and what you’re about. My intuition is anybody that
even questions to leave their own business to
go work at a company should go work at that company. Cory Gregory here just
pulled up to the gym,

– Yo, yo, what’s up Gary? Cory Gregory here just
pulled up to the gym, wake your ass up 4 AM. That’s what you get when you
add right here Cory G Fitness on Snapchat so here’s my question. I’m a serial
fitness entrepreneur. I’ve been to businesses since
I was 20 years old so it’s going on 18 years now and I love it. I’m known for on
Snapchat showing that daily accountability, that wake
your ass up and it’s nonstop. I’m also known for content in my
space but I’ve never had like a personal video guy that just
followed me around like DRock. Tell me the difference it means to your business to
have a guy like that. I think I already know that the
answer but I’m thinking about taking that next step in truly
having somebody capture what it’s taken me to do what
I’ve done in my career. And I’ll end with this we will
be friends so I’ll see you soon. Thanks. – Corey, I think it comes
down to if you’ve got something interesting to say or if the
content’s interesting it has an impact ’cause the
storytelling is good. You know, as great as DRock is
at cinematography or editing or Tyler or Dunk or Staphon or
fucking Steven Spielberg if the subject matter isn’t good,
it won’t have upside. Even us and I think nobody’s
living a more fast-paced, serendipitous for creative
content opportunity than I am but look you know
it’s a repetitive grind. It’s a challenge for these guys to edit and make
a creative storytelling. We’re starting to interview
people within the organization we have to mix it up because the
fact of the matter is a lot of our lives take on a similar
cadence and so doing something daily you know
people like Casey and other people that
do it extremely well. They look for the story,
they create the story, I’m not doing that. I’m documenting over creating
and so I want to show that grind but dude there’s only so many
times you can yell at us at 4 AM and saying let’s go. You know, and so I think,
I think the impact on your business and your career and
your brand will be that if you’ve got chops, if you’re
actually interesting enough, if there’s things going on
especially if they’re not fabricated or created for that
scenario and they’re authentic more people will be
interested in what you’ve got. You create a wider net, you get an opportunity
then to speak to them. I mean some of the vlog, the
vlogging we’re doing allows more people to get into my ecosystem
and allows me to drill home the four or five things that
I feel passionate about telling the world because
I want them to win. I think if, you know, if
you’re there to sell products or supplements or magazine covers
if I was here for selling you know VaynerMedia or selling wine
or my book I think that they would have less upside. So I also think not only is the
storytelling matter but what is the, what is the, thing you
are trying to accomplish really matters in the
scenario vlogging. I think Casey for example and
I have a lot of love for him generally just is a filmmaker
and wants to tell stories. That’s why it does well. Gonna be a lot of people that
vlog that aren’t gonna do well ’cause they suck. – [Dunk] Next
question from Joshua.

– What’s up GaryVee? Coach Kozak here and I just
like to get your thoughts on friendships of a fellow hustler,
grinder out here in the shed 24/7 working.
– I like the shed. – And I want to know at this
point in time in your life and your career do
even make time– – I want a shed. – just to have those couple of
friends that are always nagging me throughout the day. Asking me if I’ve seen
this TV show or that TV show. I’m mean at what point are just
being rude or do you have to just tell these guys to, “Hey I don’t have
time for friends today.” – Look I love my friends and
I actually wish I spent more time with my friends. I mean the fact of the matter is
during the day outside of Jets friends during Jets season
I don’t communicate with anybody about anything until that day’s
wrapped up and I’ll catch up. You know, I think way too many
people are trying to be cool. What the name? Jonathan?
– [Dunk] Joshua. – Joshua, I think too many
people are trying to be cool and being like, “Yo, I don’t got
time for fucking ‘House of Cards’,” or like
following the life. I don’t think there’s any, ever a time to like
rag on your friends. I think in my mind I rag on my
friends because but to actually I want to be polite
and I want to give them love. I think it’s super important
to be empathetic to a million different lifestyles and if
anything I’m trying to work hard as a matter of fact I think
I emailed Tyler the other day and I think I’m seeing a bunch
of my high school friends in the city next Thursday
or this Thursday. You know, I don’t know. I mean like they’re your
friends for a reason, right? I think a lot of people are
struggling with the definition between friends
and acquaintances. I think acquaintances that want
you to watch “Game of Thrones” and play fucking Madden I think
if you really want something bad are probably an interesting thing to cut out or
navigate around. I think friends you need to be
there for all the time and try to fight for those relationships
because that brings as much value as building the
biggest business in the world.

I’m currently a physical therapy student at the
University of New Mexico. I am a huge fan
of your work and I am so grateful for all of the value that you bring all of us and I appreciate you
taking my question. As a future business owner,
I’ll be deploying a lot of your strategies to
advertise for my business. My question for you is which
platform do you spend most of your time on these days? Thanks for answering. – Which platform? I mean I think, what’s his name? – [Dunk] Zach. – Zach, first of all,
thanks for the love. Zach, I think
the plot, you know, I think it’s
running the gamut. Instagram, Snapchat
I still continue use Twitter. I don’t think people understand
like Twitter is still the one place to have unbelievable
engagement and I truly believe so much of my world is
predicated on engagement. That being said, Snapchat’s
the place where when I actually reply, I just get so many god
damn, you know, people go crazy. It’s funny, I love the way the
UI and UX of Twitter, I can just get to so many more people than
all like the pressing waiting. The speed in which Snapchat
engagement works doesn’t allow me to do as many as I’d like to
which is disappointing because the upside of engaging on somebody’s
Snapchat is holy shit. Whereas on Twitter
it’s like thanks and that’s a very big
different reaction. I would say
Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram. That’s where I’m spending most
my time and I think this is a great opportunity for me to
answer a question so many have been asking which is Instagram
Stories or Snapchat Stories? The answer is both. All four of those platforms have
enormous attention for me and so I continue to focus on
them and engage and create and pound and work with my team on our
strategies and so all four platforms are extremely
important to me as the pillar and foundations and so there’s not one that is you
know is dominating. I’m sure if I looked at my time
of usage, one is greater than the other depending on how
I use them but in my mind from a strategy standpoint all four are
extremely important and I think for most of you all four
of those and including the LinkedIn’s of the world and Periscope and the
Facebook Lives scenario. I mean there’s just so much opportunity for us
to story tell and grind. I just think people need to put
in the work and I think they all bring different value for
different reasons and that’s why I use them. Facebook has
ungodly reach potential. Nothing is remotely close
to Facebook’s capability to replicate a
television like platform. Instagram is just depth of attention especially
with stories now. It’s done extremely well just a
month ago or eight weeks ago I was talking about being concerned of where
Instagram plays. I think the Stories
feature was a monstrous move. Snapchat for the 16 to 25 to 28-year-old demo is the game and super important for so
many of us out there. And Twitter is the only place
where you can listen at scale and engage and
create that conversation. I mean I don’t know where
everybody was last night during the debate but I have a funny
feeling it wasn’t Instagram, Facebook and Snapchat and so
that is the water cooler of our society and there’s a
lot of opportunity there. May be for not as much talking
but is the one place I would listen over any other platform.