on sale tomorrow, if
you were a Girl Scout, how would you maximize your sales?” – Damon, one of the moves I would use is try to go viral and go very practical. Clouds and dirts, so I would do hardcore
one-on-one activation. Literally, I would have
a five minute meeting with my parents and ask them who their 11 best friends are, and then call them and ask them to buy the damn cookies. I would also then go outside and knock on every single
door of every person and I would ask them multiple times. I would twice knock on
doors and ring door bells in the course of a week to
show them that I’m gonna relentlessly bother them until they buy a box of cookies. Hardcore aggressive in the dirt stuff, and then I would try to do one kind of viral move. I would take a picture of
me holding a sign saying if you guys help me sell
1,000 boxes of cookies, I’ll do X. That kind of stuff tends to work. I would do that on Instagram. See if I can get a couple celebrities I’d hit up on Twitter to show
them awareness around this, and then try to create some
sort of big event that allows me to really blow it out of the park, going real up there while that’s trying to get viral, knocking on doors. – [Voiceover] Daniel asks, “How
do you decide what to trust

Morale in public education is low. How can I as a teacher help to create a Thank You Economy Culture
despite government mandates, ineffective curriculum, low funding, and most of all, high stress
and pressure on teachers?” – Melissa, you can’t. The machine is too big, it’s too broken, and what you can do as an individual I think is do what I do
with the #AskGaryVee show which is I think I’m doing education here. You can put out great
content to the universe using the platforms that can reach people, and so trying to change an entire machine is extremely difficult. I, with all my charisma and energy and clout, can’t move big corporate 500 organizations. You wanna move the entire
US academic infrastructure. It’s not gonna happen. I’m sorry that I’m being realistic here. It’s not gonna happen. What you can do though is there’s something an
individual can always do. They can play in the places that are the white space. The white space right
now is for you to put out curriculum on your own, to the world in a format like this, or whatever. You wanna make slideshares, great. You wanna do Khan Academy stuff, great. You wanna do slideshare, great. You need to work around
the system, not within it.

#HustleHacks when it comes to diet, sleep, and your daily routine? How do you maintain energy and brain power while hustling nonstop?” Sean, I think a lot of that comes to– First of all, great picture.
This whole picture dynamic is going to really flip the switch. Obviously you guys know
I’m super hot on Instagram. To me, I care about the Attention Graph, actually I want to write
an article on Medium about this, the Attention Graph. That’s the whole game. That’s actually probably my nugget. I win on that. Which is,
where’s the attention? You know, YouTube, a year
after YouTube comes out, it’s got attention that people
don’t realize is valuable. Start the #AskGaryVee
show, podcasting, snapchat– Or start Wine Library
TV, sorry for the mix up. One in the same, it’s all family. They’re my kids, I love them both. It’s weird that I have two shows. I’m really weirded out that I’m gonna be a person that has two shows. Anyway, to answer your question, it really comes down to loving it. The reason I’m able to continue to hustle and do what I do is because I love it. I love doing the show, I love
flying all over the country. I like taking my kind
of selfies on Instagram where I’m sour-face and everybody’s like, “Don’t be like– This is what you want,
right? Why are you upset?” I’m not upset, I’m just– Kind of fun little pout
face that I like doing when I travel, 13-year-old girls can’t be the only people that pout. I think for me it comes down to I love it so much that– Here’s a good answer, I
woke up at 5:15 this morning after landing at midnight
on a flight yesterday, to play six a.m. tip-off basketball today because I loved it. But
if Muscle Mike came in to work me out at that time, I
would’ve been more begrudged. Because I love basketball,
I love competition. I’ve come to love the working out, I love the way it makes me look. I’ve been looking at some
old videos like, whew! But that’s what it comes down to. If you truly love it, it
doesn’t feel like work. All these extra hours I’m putting into the Wine Library stuff right now, doesn’t feel like work because I love the wine retail hustle
game, so it’s interesting. It just comes down to love. – [Voiceover] Kate Parker
asks, “Gary, I am growing

potential business plan without the financial resources and the inventory, where do you start with funding?” – Damien, this is one of those questions that I like picking for the show, because I’m always scared to be too rude to the audience. You guys are smiling. Okay, now I’m freaked out
that Aton’s doing stuff. Oh, you guys are worried about how much I’m about to thrash Damien? Got it.
– [DRock] A little bit. – Damien, the answer to that
question is very simple. We’re in a bubble of financing right now. There are people that would finance this venture just on idea. It’s happened, people come in with a deck, they have nothing. People give them money for
a piece of the business, and they go on and do it. That’s your only option,
there’s nothing else practical. Any time somebody sets up a question… Do you know how many people have emailed me with the title, “About to Help You Buy
the New York Jets,” or “Gary, Open This Email and You Will Buy the New York Jets,” or “I’m Gonna Help You
Buy the New York Jets,” and the next line is, “Hey
Gary, I’m a fan of your work. I have a billion dollar idea.” Ideas are (bleep).
Everybody’s got an idea. Steve, you have ideas? – [Steve] I have all sorts of ideas. – I have unlimited ideas. If you have the idea that’s nice. If you don’t have the dollars, and if you don’t have the inventory, or even if I have nothing,
and so the only way you do something about
that is go and get dollars from somebody to, I
assume, get the inventory. I don’t understand what the inventory is in this exact question. The reason I’m answering this question is for the entire
VaynerNation to understand that practicality matters, right? Passion, which I’m loaded
with, is great. Right? Ideas, transcend the world, great, agreed. But, in execution, in practicality, is when these things become true. That’s what matters, that’s what the people we all look up to have done. They’ve taken from here,
and they’ve made it happen. That is massively important,
and that is something I push all of you to start
spending some more time on. Question of the day for Episode Nine,

– [Voiceover] T.Jay asks,
how would you suggest an indie artist use their marketing money when the royalty check
comes in six months later? – Jay, first of all,
thank you for the music, today. Big ups to him. And, the royalty check
coming six months later, how do I think you should execute on that, is very simple. I think you should execute
six months of patience. If you don’t have the money, you just wait for it to
come, and then you execute. There is a lack, word play Jay, and everybody else is watching. There is a lack of patience. The thought that your royalty
check comes six months later, means that whatever you
wanted to do with that monies, you know, to attack, just
has to wait six months. And so, practically, I’d just wait. – [Voiceover] Thomas asks, cake or pie?