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– The dislike button. This might have to be an article as well. I don’t know a lot about it and I think you know, Ben Leventhal, the CEO of Resy, aforementioned in the prior video and I had dinner last night strategizing around Resy. Download it if you’re in LA, New York, Miami, Washington […]

– The dislike button. This might have to be an article as well. I don’t know a lot about it and I think you know, Ben Leventhal, the CEO of Resy, aforementioned in the prior video and I had dinner last night
strategizing around Resy. Download it if you’re in LA,
New York, Miami, Washington DC. R-E-S-Y. You know what Staphon? Put a glove on me there
when I did the right hook. Oh, my man! This wonderful man is going
to be shadowing me today. Hey brother! – You never said I was joining it. – Good to see you. I’m live by the way. – Oh. – You can just sit. I’m finishing up the show. So the dislike button introduces
some interesting stuff. Ben’s point was when negativity
comes into the ecosystem, it can really crash and burn a platform. He was talking about how
Twitter got more negative after the Kumbya moments
of 2007, eight, nine. And there’s a lot of truth to that. To me the dislike button allows Facebook to make its algorithm even stronger. But that was kind of how
I first thought about it as if it was a hide, you wouldn’t know. But it seems to me, and
this is where I think Facebook may have a problem. It seems to me that they want to, in the quotes that I read late last night. It was two o’ clock in the morning when I wanted to read it real fast. So I haven’t invested in
a very smart answer yet on this Steve or Derek, thank
you for asking the question. It seems that they want to allow people to express other emotions. To me where I think
they’re going with this is we see a lot of
people post, for example, we see my friend Drew
is an incredible friend. And his father passed away. And he wrote an incredible piece and it was a beautiful picture of his dad and a wonderful peace about how hardcore of a Philly sports fan he
was, which kind of struck me. I kind of already even
thought about my own demise and how my kids were going
to talk about my Jets fandom of how he was a fan and
then he bought the team. What an amazing man he was. But that’s not what makes him amazing. He was the best dad. I’m giving you guys some material Xander. So I think that what Facebook is trying to figure out a cadence around is you look and a lot of
people are hitting like. And there’s all these life events that maybe you wouldn’t in real life, in real communication say I like that. There’s other things. Now I don’t know if you’re
going to say dislike to that. But I think what Facebook is
starting to show with this move and clearly has a enormous upside in its continuation of evolution. Very similar to my first
answer on the Snapchat question is I can see an environment
where multiple buttons exist. We have a much stronger way
to express our actual thoughts on the content we’re seeing in front of us and that intelligence becomes the backbone of making a much better
product for Facebook itself. Anybody who’s into data science or understands how these things work and even if you just deploy common sense, you recognize that the like is too broad for Facebook to do enough with that data to make the product better. So if they had more options
to create more context, they’d be able to create a
far better curated experience. So I think that’s what they’re up to. It’s intriguing to me that
it’s a dislike button. You know, if my thesis was right, my intuition is that they would go with a different kind of button and that’s why I’m not so sold that I’m right with my
point of view there. But those are the curiosities that are running through my head. So what do I, to answer
it black and white, what I think about, actually turn me into black and white here even though it’s part of the official show because I think that’s funny to
answer it black and white. Thank you Staphon. Actually, no, go back to color because the show’s always
full time in color. But in that one little weird
period make it black and white. I think it’s a very clever
and very important step. One that I do believe has major impact. And one that this market will look back at five years from now and recognize it was a massive moment in Facebook’s, you know, lineage, including
it became a chip aaway at becoming more negative and not going in the right direction or started creating the framework for even smarter better experiences for all of us on their platform. And don’t forget that platform deploys to Instagram so
a lot of you are saying “Yeah, but I’m not there any more.” Oh yes you are. It’s called Instagram. You live there. And so I think it’s important. I’m excited to see what happens with it. That’s it? Good show.

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– Hi, Gary. This is Nick Folk from the New York Jets. – [Gary] Kicker. I’m just wondering what are the few things I can do now to prepare for business after football. – So, Nick, I think similar to B Marshall, there’s a lot of networking aspects. But the other thing I think you […]

– Hi, Gary. This is Nick Folk from the New York Jets.
– [Gary] Kicker. I’m just wondering what are
the few things I can do now to prepare for business after football. – So, Nick, I think similar to B Marshall, there’s a lot of networking aspects. But the other thing I
think you could be doing especially during the off season. Let’s talk about another thing real quick. Right now we’re very focused on the Browns and the season. Guys, all of you, let’s not
worry about these answers. We can focus on that in
February, March, and April. Let’s get really focused on football, but I got your back Coach Bowles. But, Nick, I think one of
the things that you can do is start becoming a
practitioner and an executor in the place that you’re passionate about. You know, you’re gonna kick
out of football at some point, and what’s gonna happen is you’re gonna want to go and do something. Being good at that actually matters. If you’re passionate about music, or you want to start a music app, downloading all the music
apps, reading about music apps, engaging with people and talking
to them about music apps. To me the advise here, and for everybody’s who’s
watching in the Vayner Nation, is listen way too any
people want to be something versus actually putting in the work to be a practitioner for it. And a lot of you are jumping
into things, by raising money, by quitting your jobs, by
putting your other asset the one you have most,
which is your time between 7 p.m. and two in the morning, into something without prepping for it. The amount of people that are
jumping into the cold pool of business without warming up, right? The amount of people just hitting the court without stretching. The amount of people that are
just jumping into business, doing no prep work. By the time I was 22 years
old to run my dad’s business, I’d done eight years of
real prep work, right? By the time I started VaynerMedia, you know this thing? It’s not winning by accident. It’s winning, because 2006, three, four years of
being just a social media personality and practitioner,
15 years being business. I’ve put in the work. You can’t run a marathon cold. All five of these phenomenal athletes, they didn’t just roll out of bed, this Sunday morning coming up, and play. They’ve been in mini camp,
they’ve been in training camp. They’ve been prepping, they’ve
been studying the film. I hope you guys are studying the film. They’ve been getting ready for this game. And, so, way too many
of you entrepreneurs, and, Nick, the thing that
way too many athletes take for granted, and celebrities, and other people that
transition other things is like cool, you just think because
you were a great kicker in the NFL, you’re gonna
be a great entrepreneur. It’s not just how it works. You’ve got to put in the work. And, so, I would say to you, and this is why I broke up
you and Brandon’s questions similar points of view. Brandon and Nick, it’s
about not only networking and having relationships, but then you’ve got to be
able to bring tangible skills to the table. And, so, that’s what I
would be doing, Nick. Now, getting deeper into your studies on the thing that you
want to be doing post NFL. There’s just no, there’s
no better show for me

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– Gary, what’s going on? This is Brandon Marshall. – [Gary] B Marshall. – Question. What can I do now to set up myself for business when I’m done playing ball? Thank you. – Brandon, first of all, thank you for helping me curate this tremendous show. I’m super excited. As you can tell, by […]

– Gary, what’s going on? This is Brandon Marshall.
– [Gary] B Marshall. – Question. What can I do now to set up myself for business
when I’m done playing ball? Thank you. – Brandon, first of all, thank you for helping me
curate this tremendous show. I’m super excited. As you can tell, by wearing
your number 15 t-shirt. You’re gonna rebrand 15
in green the proper way. You like that, Andrew? There’s a lot of things you could be doing to prepare for life after football. I think a lot of it has
to do around networking with the right people
in the business world, or any other place you want to go into. Especially when you have celebrity status as a football player you can
leverage that during your time. It’s amazing, I’ve watched this happen with a lot of my athlete friends. It’s amazing. The level of leverage lost the
second a player stops playing from literally the day before. It’s incredible. And, so, while you’re active
being in the New York market is a tremendous opportunity. You have a huge opportunity
to leverage that, because you have access
to so many individuals. So, what I think you have to do is reverse engineer what
you want to accomplish, and then start networking
and using that celebrity to get access to people
and start learning, and start executing, start
making real relationships. So they’re tangible relationships, and they’re not built on, “Oh, I want to hang out with
my favorite football player.” They’re real relationships post-football where you actually have that rapport. And you go into business, or motivation, or nonprofit, or whatever is your driver. And, so, there’s that. Brandon, I’m gonna give you
a little prediction here.

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code has made in that should do in order to guarantee success as a tech entrepreneur after college thanks very simply that it’s a good point before I get into it is a good good moment to tell everybody to keep pumping out questions I am very much watching and sending India stuff I really […]

code has made in that should do in order
to guarantee success as a tech entrepreneur after college thanks very simply that it’s a good point before I get into it
is a good good moment to tell everybody to keep pumping out questions I am very
much watching and sending India stuff I really want more more videos Instagram or Twitter hashtag get a scary
be there something about this kid that really stuck with me I’m gonna go into
production I fundamentally believe this kid is gonna be massively successful
email me this video in 12 years saying hey cool and so you know what I really
want to tell you is to hang around to hang around people that you that you
want to be like without another person sometime more fans than whatever time hang around as many people that you want
to be like as possible I’m a funny feeling you have all the pieces now
about the connections connections are grossly underestimated I would in turn
every summer between now and whenever you’re ready to your own thing people
that you want to be like for people who want to be like organizations that you
want to be like network networking was clearly the thing that i watch the video
and I was like network did just get out there meetup.com you people go on Twitter
Search just say hey to people join as many networks get yourself out there
into the real world to give gaps say hi to India’s went to college you know that
kind of thing just get out there and say hello to people meet as many people and
be around like minded people be around like minded people be around winners
hustlers ambitious entrepreneurs spent summers in San Francisco but there’s
texting popping up everywhere but it’s about these 526 internships that you can
sneak in between now and the beginning that I think we’ll have disproportionate
value for you and don’t take an internship at Facebook Apple where you
will never touch the Genesis the seed coat a smaller places that are people
like you want to be like so that you can taste it so you can be close to it been asked to talk a lot of itself when
his you think this can prevent people from pushing past their comfort zone I’m
not sure what means do I think

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The hashtag Instagram expert, and I just wanna ask you, how do you decide which projects to say yes to, and which ones to pass on? Because I have a shit-ton of projects and opportunities coming my way on a regular basis, and it’s often a challenge to know how to prioritize which ones to […]

The hashtag Instagram expert, and I just wanna ask you, how do you decide which projects to say yes to, and which ones to pass on? Because I have a shit-ton of projects and opportunities coming my way on a regular basis, and
it’s often a challenge to know how to prioritize which ones to put at the top, and which
ones to take a pass on. So, I thank you for your time, and I look forward to your answer. – Sue, I’m really pumped you asked this. A lot of entrepreneur
self, kind of, you know, one off of freelancers,
different things of that nature, I’ve got a really good answer for you and it came to me immediately, unlike the first question. I, if I were you,
hearing what I’m hearing, would continue to raise
your price on every project substantially and choose
the ones that pay you the most, if that’s what you want. I would do the ones that network you with the most networkable,
or biggest brand, or the kind of people
that you wanna be around, and so I would, here’s what I would do. When you have a supply
and demand issue at hand, you know, I mean high
class problem, right, too much coming in, it’s going well, and trying to pick which ones, it’s all about raising the stakes, whether that’s a better
networking opportunity, famous people, rich
people, connected people, nice people, whatever makes you tick, or money. So if it’s $3,000 a month
or $2,000 a project, then it needs to be five and 35 hundred, and if it’s five and 35 hundred, then it needs to be 75 hundred and 6,000. Like, raise your price. There’s a lot of you right now that are doing services
that only scale you, that are not building you a business because you’re not understanding
how to raise your prices. Let the market say no,
let the market say no, let the market say no. Let me tell you the story about
my first speaking gig ever. My first speaking gig ever,
never spoke, got a random email, at Wine Library, they’re like, we want you to speak at
this internet conference, I’m like, okay, cool, amazing, I get on the phone, guy tells
me about the conference, how much do you wanna get paid, I think I’ve told this
story on the show before. No? Oh, good. This is a good one. On the phone, how much
would you like to get paid, I’m like, oh, crap, what the
hell do you get paid to speak? I’m like, alright,
throw out something big, you know, I’m a good negotiator, you know, I’ve been buying a lot of
wine for the last ten years, I’m like, alright, $5,000. Right? Remember, like, you
guys know me as me now, like, this was literally like, it’s like you saying
$5,000, Staphon, right? You’d be pumped as shit
right now to speak for. You’ll stand here naked,
right, so, so, so, I was like $5,000. He goes, okay, I go, crap,
that was way too fast. So, I’m like, okay, now we’re
talking about logistics, I’m like, alright, I gotta
get more money out of this. I think I got crushed on this negotiation. So, I get to the end, I’m like, okay, to recap, 30 minute
talk, and it was an hour, 30 minute talk in Miami, July 17th, he goes, no, no, no, no, he goes, we need you for an hour. I’m like, oh, I go, we’ll that’s $10,000 for the speech. He goes, okay great, I go. Still too little! And I kept raising it until
the market at that point settled me in, between five and fifteen, which was unbelievable and blew my mind, and it was market, I didn’t know, and, obviously, it’s grown since then, and so, I really think that
you need to keep pushing the boundaries of money,
or upside opportunity. I would do stuff for free
if you thought it was going to lead to happiness,
paying forward to somebody you believe in, or something
down the line for you without expecting it,
remember that whole thesis. So, that’s what I would do. I would pick the ones
that you’re just pushing, you’re pushing the pricing,
you’re pushing the pricing.

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“today and didn’t have your family business “how would you handle the job market?” – Natalie thank you so much. Big shout out to everybody who’s out in LA. That was a really phenomenal night for me as well. A lot of peeps came out, I appreciate it. Well, first of all, I wouldn’t attack […]

“today and didn’t have your family business “how would you handle the job market?” – Natalie thank you so much. Big shout out to
everybody who’s out in LA. That was a really phenomenal
night for me as well. A lot of peeps came out, I appreciate it. Well, first of all, I wouldn’t
attack the job market, because even at the age of nine or ten, long before I even realized
my parents had a liquor store as my dad managed that store and was buying into a business I was already slinging, as
you heard in episode 118, you know blue curtains and alarm clocks. And clearly you’ve heard
the stories of lemonade and baseball cards. There is no attacking the
job market from my DNA because I would try to start a business especially right now. I would completely take
advantage of the fact that there is an enormous
amount of dumb money trying to become
investors in start-ups. Meaning, unlike the
generation where I became an angel investor in
2009, 2008, 2010, 2011. Right now every dentist,
every real estate agent, every trust fund baby in
their thirties, forties, fifties, sixties, seventies, and eighties anybody who had a good
career on Wall Street is now an investor looking
for their Mark Zuckerberg. I would take advantage of that. I would network. I assume if I was in college
I would ask professors. I would ask friends and family. I would just ask. I think when you’re at the bottom, asking is quite important. And so I would ask for at bats, try to network. I would use the incredible
tool that is known as Twitter and I would be replying
to people that I aspire to get in touch with. I don’t, you know it’s funny
to me to see the people that give up after asking to meet with me for a few minutes, after three or four nos. And I know that I’m inducing
now a ton of Twitter chatter to meet with me. And I hope you saw the
video I made for myself, the advice I’ve given myself. DRock, give them a two second clip. I need to get my shit together so I apologize I’m letting you down. But the truth is I need
to heed to this advice I’m giving myself. You know, so I won’t see you but I would have saw you six months ago and Cuban, or Jack Welsh,
or Zucks, or Elon Musk, you just never know when they’ll
actually sit down with you. And then there’s a
million people that maybe you don’t know who’ve been successful, who’ve got leverage, who’ve got money. And so I would attack the
reality of the marketplace. And the reality of the
marketplace right this second is tons of cash, looking
for young people with ideas. I think it’s a broken bubble. I think that gets exposed. I think 99% of people
are not going to deliver on that investment. I think I’d be one of the 1% that would deliver on that investment. So I’d be looking for while in college and like I did in college instead of looking to
hook-up and do keg stands I’d be looking for business partners and business opportunities. I think for anybody else
that is not wired like me which I think is a far majority
of this show’s audience I would tell you this piece of advice. If you were 22 years old, if you were the amount of people that settle for the first paying job versus living with 19 friends on the floor and eating 99 cent meals blows my mind in lieu of trying to get your dream job versus what you’ve settled for. Please from 22 to 24 don’t settle. Go for your dream job. Pound for it. And if you can’t get
into VaynerMedia (ping) then go for the second
best, or third best, or fourth best on your list. Please start with the
moon and go backwards. The amount of you that start at a hilltop and just settle there
is an enormous mistake because 22 to 24 is when you should live really, really humble, ghetto, dirt. Like that’s it,
that’s the time. To settle in in the
middle only lends itself to so much upside. So aspire for as high as you possibly can and be patient. it sucks not having a job in September when all your friends do. Or your friends that were
juniors the year before are going back to school
and the pressure is on and maybe your parents don’t
like that you don’t have a job but that’s exactly when you
should be buying random stuff at Goodwill and selling it
on eBay to pay your $80.00 worth of rent because you
have 94 roommates in a studio. That’s it, get dirty. Cause, and I know a paused there, cause getting dirty is the price to having what you want. The dramatic misunderstanding that amazing things come with a price. A lot of people talk about rich kids. I really negatively look at rich kids because I look negatively at my kids because they’re about to be rich kids. That’s just real. Sorry Xander and Misha, eat it. But you know what comes with the price of being a rich kid? People completely do,
you’ve basically lost in the game of winners. You’ve basically from day
one you were born into money. You actually aren’t
good, you were handed it. You suck.
That’s it, you’ve lost. That’s the price that comes along with it. And take it from somebody
who cried everyday because his dad had a
small family business and I was petrified because
I knew I had the talent that everybody would say
things were handed to me. Cried everyday with my mom on the phone I’m not coming into the family business even though I could help it, even though I want to, I don’t. Because then everybody is going to say, that it was handed to me. In the scheme of things I was an idiot I didn’t realize how
small it was to the world. But everything’s got a price. Everything’s got a price. You’re beautiful?! LIfe is much better when you’re beautiful. That’s what we all say.
I agree with that. But, more realistically, you
get completely disrespected. You get disrespected. You can’t be smart, you can’t be good, you’re just too beautiful. I’m serious. I’m really tired of people
thinking everybody’s got it better. Everybody has advantages. You know what the
advantages of being ghetto and on welfare and being
nothing and having nothing being a child of a homeless parent. You know what the advantage is? You’re (bleep) angry. You’ve got a ridiculous
chip on your shoulder. You want to stick it to everybody. All of ’em. Use what you’ve got.
Use what you’ve got.

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“today, without anyone knowing who you were, ” “how would you find talent?” – Kyle, first of all I’m gonna answer the real answer, and then the question I think you’re actually asking. The real answer is, I would never, and this is going to give a lot of people a lot of insight, I’m […]

“today, without anyone
knowing who you were, ” “how would you find talent?” – Kyle, first of all I’m
gonna answer the real answer, and then the question I
think you’re actually asking. The real answer is, I would never, and this is going to give a
lot of people a lot of insight, I’m always trying to provide
value, Sid, as you go through your career, you wanna
provide value, so I’m going to answer twice. The answer is I would not
start VaynerMedia, I actually will never in my career
start a business, or be in a business that I don’t have
disproportional leverage from the beginning to
affect the outcome of the business, so the thought
of starting a social media agency, where I am not a
known entity, and I don’t have leverage with brands
already, VaynerMedia started much like the
networking video that Sid, was taught by DRock,
actually link that up DRock, let’s give Sid, this
is like a Sid episode. It’s a Sid explosion guys. Let’s have a little ding,
ding, ding right here, if you haven’t seen it
check out the video. I talked about networking,
and somewhere in that thing I said, let it come
to you, have the leverage. When I started Vayner, I had the leverage. I was already a known entity,
in this space, at that point probably for about 3 or 4
years, 2 or 3 years, brands were coming to me. I scratched the itch,
I reverse engineered. I had a business because it came to me. A talent came to me, because
I was known as a thought leader already in the space. To start a business without
leverage, either having the pure talent, I’m great at
cooking, you know, baking, and thus I have a chance. Maybe I don’t need to
be known for my baking skills, but I have the skill,
or I have the disproportional known factor. Now to answer your question,
you need to go out and network, ironically. If you are somebody who’s
inspired by me, listen, I see a ton of you 23 year
olds starting your social media agency because it feels easy, right. Like, I’m a kid, I know what Vine is. You know, remember these
businesses, need business results, so just because you
use SnapChat to hook up, or whatever you’re doing, right,
just cause you know how to swipe to the right, doesn’t mean you know
how to sell cups of coffee. So, I think what’s really important is do you have the skills first, second, you gotta
go out and network. If you’re starting an agency,
if you’re asking that question selfishly for yourself,
to what should you do, I think you need to go to
meetup.com, go to every social media meet up in your
general area, go to 5-15 conferences, big ones,
around social media, you know Social Media Examiner does
a big one in San Diego, like scrounge up the dollars
and go, network, network, network, learn, learn, learn,
follow people, multiple people, because they’re all
bringing different values. Learn, learn, learn, engage
on Twitter, it’s the open cocktail party of the internet. Engage with people that
are engaging on comments within my Facebook posts. Become parts of communities, leverage, remember jab, jab, jab,
right hook, don’t go in there and be like, “Hey, do
you wanna work for me?” Like, become part of a
community, then leverage the aspects of being part of that community. – [India] Nice. – But it starts, India, with
becoming part of the community. Like I don’t wanna glaze over that. I appreciate your nice,
but I want to make sure we really get it here,
like you’ve got to become part of the community, and
then you can leverage it. Don’t tactically be, don’t fake the, don’t go into the reddit
and your first post is spam, right Steve?
– That’s — – Because you get fleem to
death, and I think a lot of people try to do that,
and they think they’re clever because they’re patient for a
month and acting like they’re part of the, People can sense shit. If your intent was to
become part of the community just to extract value
out of the community, people can sense it. – [Voiceover] Tyler asks, “In
a Snapchat/Instagram world, is

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for the creative class. I’m a writer and I started my own marketing consultancy in January and I’m having an issue getting out and meeting people. You meet a 100 people before breakfast. Some of us don’t have that kind of personality. So what advice would you give people like me who have a hard […]

for the creative class. I’m a writer and I started
my own marketing consultancy in January and I’m having
an issue getting out and meeting people. You meet a 100 people before breakfast. Some of us don’t have
that kind of personality. So what advice would you
give people like me who have a hard time getting
out, shaking hands, and handing off business cards. What can we do to help
grow our own companies? You have anything? – Jim that’s a great question. Networking doesn’t come natural to– give me my headphones, India. Networking doesn’t come
natural to everybody and the truth is you’ve watched the show probably enough to know I’m a big fan of betting on your strengths versus
working on your weaknesses. I believe people that are
more introverted, reserved, it’s hard for me to ra ra
you into going and like shaking people’s hands
and rolling up on people and being like, “Hey.” Oh no, we’re all great. You know like that’s not going
to be what you do, right? That’s not going to be what you do. That’s what I’d do, but that’s not what
you’re going to be doing. And so, I would say put out great content and play the honey game. Become the honey and
let the bees come to you instead of you becoming
one of the bees, right? And so, I think that’s the game. I think way too many
people are trying to be better at things that seem obviously good. And listen, I spend a disproportionate
amount of time networking. Much of which doesn’t come to fruition. So that could be a waste. Maybe you’re saving a lot
of time being a creative, doing your thing. So, I would say for you and
all the other people out there that don’t want to network,
hand out business cards, shake hands, kiss babies, scare red-headed dudes, I think that you need to go
out and put out great stuff and let people come to you. Let your work speak for itself. I would work in a B2B
Environment and try to get your work seen in other
places except your blog. That can be done behind your keyboard, on email to blogs and
news sites that cover the arena that you play in. That would be my advice to you. Let it come to you. (car engines revving) Cool. Question of the day.

6:32

– Hey Gary, Jason Hanson here in the beautiful San Francisco Bay Area, I’m heading off to a networking event and thought I’d ask you, what is Gary Vee’s game networking? What do you do? Love to hear from you. Thanks. – Jason, I think networking is super important to me at this point, you […]

– Hey Gary, Jason Hanson here in the beautiful San Francisco Bay Area, I’m heading off to a networking event and thought I’d ask you,
what is Gary Vee’s game networking? What do you do? Love to hear from you. Thanks. – Jason, I think networking
is super important to me at this point, you know,
there’s two different levels of networking for me. Number one, I’m in an environment where I’m known, right? Through last decade I’ve
built up some brand equity and there’s a very different strategy of walking into a room
where there’s context around me, I’m in a wine space, social media space, marketing space, I’m gonna be able to play that way a little bit different. In that world I’m kind
of, I’m receiving, right? I’m letting things come to me. This is the opportunity for
a lot of people to pitch me, I wanna give them value, and so in those environments where I have context and brand and leverage,
I actually give back. I actually just set up shop and
I get pitched for days, bro. On the other side, when
I go to many places where nobody knows who I
am, I’m on the offense to not overthink it. So I will never figure out like who’s the biggest dog
or doggette in the room that I’m gonna get to and
like I’m gonna get mine so what I really do is I come in and I go really very open, and
create a scenario where, Jason, don’t worry,
you can walk, let’s go, yeah, don’t worry. Say hi to the VaynerNation. – Is there no cutting? You said there was no cutting anymore. – There’s not cutting. – No editing. – This is real. – I know, it’s going
live right now, right? – Yeah, just tell ’em. – I don’t like to be in– – But look, look, I know
you don’t like that, but say hello. Be a nice guy. – Hi, how you doin’? – Okay, awesome. Best accent at VaynerMedia, half Boston, half New York. Very conflicted. And so in places where I’m not known, I’m really looking to just
let serendipity take over. I think networking can get very skeezy very quickly, right, you have
such a hardcore objective. To me, I let it come to me. That is my overall plan. I, by nature am a counter-puncher, from all my aggression and bravado, and what I project on
stage, because that’s a different environment, in real life I’m very much
let things come to me, and I like to react. It’s a little more chess. it’s kind of like, I wish I
knew more about martial arts because I feel like sometimes people leave comments on Facebook and YouTube and I feel like it’s like martial arts, I let the other person’s thing give me the leverage to do my thing. – [Voiceover] Rocky asks,
“What’s your opinion

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“join a local Chamber of Commerce “in order to build a brand in the community they live in? “I’ve never had much ROI on networking groups.” – You know, Darth Bill, the answer is probably, but maybe it’s not the group’s problem, maybe it’s your problem. Maybe you’re not good at networking, right? And so, […]

“join a local Chamber of Commerce “in order to build a brand in
the community they live in? “I’ve never had much ROI
on networking groups.” – You know, Darth Bill,
the answer is probably, but maybe it’s not the group’s problem, maybe it’s your problem. Maybe you’re not good
at networking, right? And so, you know, I think you need to look
yourself in the mirror, Darth. And I’m gonna continue with the pause, cuz I don’t wanna leave it
that negative, cuz I like Bill. Even though I’m in a little
bit of a focused mood, there’s no reason to be zingy. You know, I think you need
to really know yourself. One of the biggest reasons I do go to a lot of networking things, and I don’t go to Chamber of Commerce, though I did, we were part of one. Brandon loved it. I (mumbles) freaking loved the concept of the Chamber of Commerce. I mean, you know, I think that you really need to know yourself, and if you don’t find yourself as someone who is strong at networking, or has that gear to go up
to people and say hello, and you don’t have that bullcrap gear, where you’re just going up to everybody and handing your business card, you know, then maybe it’s not for you. I mean, we really need
to bet on strengths. You know that’s a big thesis of mine. And so I would look at yourself first. If you’re not good in that environment, then maybe you shouldn’t
be putting yourself in that position. – [Voiceover] Heromoviepodcast asks,

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