“a Kickstarter campaign
beyond providing content “to raise awareness and
reach funding goals?” – Matt, you know. (stammers) I’m bumbling on this. No, no, I’m sticking, DRock,
I just fucking told you that I’m not editing
on any of my mistakes. Jesus with this guy. All you editors are the same, want to take out the natural, authentic. You guys like when I
struggle with my words cause it happens so rarely. (ding) I treat Kickstarter no
different than anything else. Just cause you have an ice
thing that you want to do and you decide to do it on Kickstarter because that’s a platform
that has virality, back to the question
about Medium and Linkedin, that’s fine. The answer is the same. Facebook dark posts, targeting
people that give a crap about ice cream and ices,
putting out content in blog form. Guest contributing. I would literally email
every single person that has a blog of any size or magnitude that plays in your space. I didn’t look deeply, but
if you’re in organic ices or just ices, or desserts
or ice cream culture, I would map out the 700
people that are in that space that have blogs or media outlets and reach out to them and say, “I’d like to guest contribute.” Talk about Italian ices or ice cream or dessert culture in America
or the world, generally, not spamming like, “I want to
tell you about my product.” It’s all about being content and not being about infomercials. Too many of the people watching this show and the rest of the world,
when they think about content they hear Billy Mays, an infomercial. When I think about content, I hear New York Times and Scandal. Get it? It’s about making that decision, and so getting distribution,
putting out good content, and that means guest contributing, Facebook dark posts if you’ve
got money to drive towards it, reaching out to influencers and chefs that are in the dessert space to see if you can JV what I would
call business development. “Hey,” you know, “Mario Batali,” “Here’s what I can do for you. “Give you 8% of my company if you “can get me the spark that
starts out my awareness. “Hey, Carla Hall, I think you’re amazing “in your southern cusisine, I’ll give you “five years worth of my product for free “if you give me a little love. “How can you give me love? “A tweet’s not enough.” So it’s biz dev, it’s content creation that’s not infomercial but actual content, and then it’s proper internet marketing, which right now to me is creme dela creme is Facebook dark posts. You’ve been watching the #AskGaryVee show. My question of the day
for you is very simple.

Great to see you back. I hope you remember me from Wine Library episode 759 where we drank out of bottles. Enough of that, my question. I run a video blog inmymug.com. Plug, got the plug in.
– Smart plug. – And get about 5,000 views a week but we’ve been kind of there for the last 100 or so episodes. Should I kick on, should
I be bothered about that? We get in sales from it, we
get lots of interaction from it but should I kick on and if I am, should I look at dark posts, should I look at Twitter? What should I kind of do to kind of find that next level? And thank you for the show. – My pleasure, my friend. I definitely, definitely remember you and that was a lot of fun. You know, it’s funny I
was just about to segway in closing off the show about, I also want more viewers and I wanna keep building, like, when you’re in the game,
you’re in the game. You wanna build. And you’ve done the patience thing which is normally my answer. That’s my answer to me. I’m only 18 episodes in and you gotta restart
and rebuild an audience and get people used to behavior and it’s not email or RSS
like I had with Wine Library back in 06, 7, 8 and
so it’s different ways. It’s Twitter but that’s
noisier and different. You know, so, I would say distribution. The reason you’re stuck right now is you need distribution,
distribution, distribution. I highly recommend you say to yourself, what are the 100 websites that are the biggest websites in the world that speak to or are in
the genre of my show? And then literally email them one by one and ask them if they want the rights to distribute your content with maybe you writing on top of it. I’d also reach out to the top 100 podcasts that you can get out there
on and promote the show. Give interviews, you need to hustle. What you just did by
getting on this show worked. You were gonna pick up 39, 42, 73 new listeners for your
show by being on this show. And you need to just scale
the living crap out of that. It’s hustle, hustle, hustle,
hustle, hustle, hustle hustle, hustle, but with
a thread in distribution. You need more awareness. You need to show up on other
YouTube celebrity’s show. You need to get into
the LinkedIn community and start putting out that content. You need to get the hell out there. That is the game, my friend. And that is a nice way to
kind of wrap up the show

Is it some local listings in SEO, writing content, social media? Antoine, what’s up, brother? Gary Vee, but you know that. You know, look this is
always the best question. This is the question that
I rappled with, rappled, grappled with, when I got
involved in my dad’s business. It’s very hard. What do you do? I made flyers at home and
gave them out when people walked into the store. When you’re hustling and
you’ve got limited budget, you’re in trouble by many
people’s points of view. Let me give you the real first answer. The real first answer is work more. The greatest way to
close the gap financially is to put in the extra two or three hours. So, whatever you’re doing, add
an hour or two to each day. Still eat healthy, still have
sleep, but an hour or two of hustle, little less watching
Game of Throne marathons and Madden 15, extra hustle
because when you’re limited, that’s the play. To me, Facebook dark
posts has one of the best ROI’s right now, Google AdWords is always a strong contender, banner retargeting. It really depends on your
business, it depends on if you’re e-commerce, to me,
those three would really work. If you’re a local business
that’s trying to drive people into the store, you start
looking at Yelp and Foursquare and things of that nature. Sometimes it might even
be, believe it or not, local radio, local cable
television, believe it or not. There might be ways, but the
truth is, there’s very specific answers based on very
specific small businesses. But, don’t, don’t lack hustle. Biz dev, one of my favorite things when we didn’t have a lot of dollars was biz dev. Go to the barber and be
like, can I put some flyers of my business in your store
and then you can put some, there’s that move. There’s
the call for advertisers thing that was my classic YouTube video. We can link that down below,
that’s probably the second time in three episodes linking
it, but it’s a classic. Go and get the money, and so, those would be my first answers to a local financially strapped. Networking, hustling, biz
dev’ing, go to the local businesses around you, trade,
go to the Chamber of Commerce events, figure out if you can do something and just print coupons and hand them out, you know, in quotes. Guys, I appreciate you jamming
with me in episode three.