“you see people making in social media? “Is there something you’ve
seen that impresses you?” – Chef, it’s great to
have you back on the show. I like how you’re leading the question. I know you me to say something
about the VaynerNation on Meerkat, but I won’t do that for you. So I haven’t seen anything
that’s impressed me, because I’m not paying
attention to anybody, so I have no idea. As far as what are people doing wrong, equally, I’ve been so head
down over the last four to five months, I’ve not
been paying close attention. My intuition is that people
are still doing a very bad job. On Twitter, I see nothing but right hooks. On Facebook, I see very bland, non-contextual, non-targeted content. I think people are… I think Instagram is
probably been the place where there’s been the most innovation. People are trying a lot of
different things cause of scale. I think Snapchat, there’s
some people putting together some great stories, so I think
the cool stuff’s happening on Instagram and Snapchat,
which is too bad, because Facebook is still the juggernaut. I think Pinterest,
Promoted Pins, I’ve been seeing some really interesting stuff. Faithbox, an incubated company here, Willie’s been hitting some pay dirt there. I’m really impressed with him. It’s a little humble
brag of our own thing, but I apologize. It’s the only things
I’m paying attention to. Truth is, I’m just not
paying attention enough, because I don’t need to because
I know exactly what to do, and that’s what I’m focusing
on, and that’s that.

“What should I get my
mom for Mother’s Day?” – Corey, I think the big
strategy for Mother’s Day 2015 is for people that are
watching the show to recognize a lot of their moms are on Pinterest, and that they should go to
their mom’s Pinterest board and see what mama has been pinning and buy her something from there, and so if you’re not
lucky enough to have that, where your mama is pinning,
then I would highly recommend looking at her social media and looking at what she’s tweeting or Facebooking, which will not be as good as Pinterest, but you might find the
diamond in the rough, and then, if you can’t do that, the move that so many don’t do that I highly recommend for
you and the VaynerNation, is to randomly call
your mom’s best friend, the one that you might have
not talked to in a long time, or it might be your aunt that
you only talk to once a year to wish a happy birthday
or whoever it may be, and ask her what, or him,
what you should buy your mom, because friends know, and I
think that would be thoughtful. I think putting in the effort
to try to really buy your mom something she wants for
Mother’s Day is the move. I feel like I’ve inspired three or four of you,
because that’s about as high as I think this will go,
but that makes me happy, because three to four of your moms are gonna have a better Mother’s Day because of the #AskGaryVee Show.

and I’m doing a 59-week,
59 National Park road-trip to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the National Park Service. I’m quitting my job, and I was wondering how I can use social
media to get sponsorships. Thank you. – Darius, you’re using social media to get sponsorship right now, right? Your actions are leading
you to what you want. You hacked your way into the show, and now you’re on the show, and now you’ve got a bunch of exposure, all the people watching and listening. I thought that was really clever. I’m sure five to seven of the viewers also agree that it’s clever. One of those five to seven may
have a business proposition. But I think the number-one
way for you to sponsorship is to search terms on Twitter
around national parks, and see which businesses
are already engaging by putting out content, or
engaging with content around it. And then replying to
them, in a conversation, not throw the right-hook
right away, buy saying, “Hey, here’s a picture
I put on Instagram.” I think content, Instagram, Meerkat. You know, I think these things matter. So, I think it’s a heavy-level of content, putting it out there and creating
some level of serendipity. I think it’s hacking, and
hustling, and biz-devving, which you clearly know how
to do ’cause you’re now on this show and getting that exposure. I think you reach out to every other blog that covers national parks. The top-50 big ones, and just
pound them into submission there and find with right-hooks. In an email form, or
hitting them up on social. And then in the cocktail
party that is Twitter, engaging with companies that have money to spend on sponsorship
that already talking about counter-punching. Already, that’s Floyd’s
shoulder thing he does. Counter-punching and engaging with content in Twitter as it’s going on now. So, that’s what I would do.

Cheers, top of the morning to ya. And I have a question because I look like Al Pacino after a bender. I am launching the Tim Ferriss Experiment and it is a hell of a thing. (laughs) How do you think television
shows will be launched two years from now? Both in terms of distribution and in terms of commercial? That is my question
because there’s gotta be many better ways (laughs). Thank you. – Tim, great to have you on the show. I know so many of the
people in the VaynerNation are huge fans so that’s a lot of fun. I’m sure a lot of you enjoyed that. And everybody in the VaynerNation should actually check out Tim’s Tim Ferriss Experiment on iTunes. Staphon let’s link that up and YouTube. And I’m sure it’s easy
to find for all of you that are listening on the podcast and on Facebook, if you’re watching. Can one of you maybe jump in with a quick comment up when this episode pops up on Facebook and link to iTunes? Tim Ferriss Experiment. Timmy, I think that a
couple things will happen. One, I think there’s gonna be a crap load more over
the top services, right. So, you’ve got Netflix but
I think you’ve got Vimeo starting to make some noise. I expect a lot of traditional,
old-school digital leaders to get in this game. Microsoft’s gonna have to be in this game. Yahoo!’s gonna have to be in this game. I think, Snapchat is clearly
a television network. I think Facebook in a lot
of ways goes that route. I think everybody that
can own video is gonna try ’cause all the money’s there. I think launching it will happen in the way that you’re
doing it now, right? You’re asking this question
in a micro community, where I’m now giving exposure to it. And so the days of going to the Today Show or running commercials on a big show. Or trying to get print or
radio like campaigns going, there’s now all these fragmented societies and niches, Facebook dark posts. Making infographics for Pinterest. Getting a ton of Instagram’s influencers, having me on Mike’s show. I’m sure you’re probably
hitting the podcast circuit tremendously hard. You’re probably gonna
show up on 15 podcasts over the next week or two. Which is something you wouldn’t
have done 24 months ago. And there will be five
to seven other things that none of know has the
attention of the consumer. Maybe an app that comes
out on the watch, right? There’s so much coming. And so, here’s what I can tell you. I don’t predict, I react. But I do know this, in 24 months, there
will be some new shtuff. Shtuff. I almost said shit and then stuff. Shit and stuff means shtuff. That’s how it comes out of my mouth. Question of the day.

– Lewis asks “Where would
you start in building a digital team within a
traditional TV or print agency?” – Lewis there’s an interesting
thing that I believe in very much which is you are what
your actions show you are. It’s very similar, I’m probably
affected by Bill Parcells, in football legendary hall
of famer coach Bill Parcells former Jet coach always said
you are what your record says you are because everyone’s
like we’re eight and eight but we could have been 10
and six if we you know, but at the end of the
day you are what you are. Thanks Mike. It’s very easy to create
a digital practice within a traditional print or direct
mail, outdoor media or PR. All these agencies now have
to shift into the world that we’ve created because
that’s where the dollars and the momentum and where
the story telling is going. This video will be consumed
a hell of a lot more in YouTube and Facebook
native than it will as a pre roll pop up somewhere. And so I think it’s super
important that you understand you are what your actions say you are. Meaning it’s very easy, go out
and hire seven to 12 people that work in digital social,
bring them into your department and now you have that capability. Now the key for the CEO or
the chairman of the board, her and his job is to
really integrate that new, we’re going through it now
VaynerMedia has a new live division called VaynerLive,
it’s live events activation. It’s not what we’ve historically done. It’s activating at Coachella or South By or things of that nature. And we’re six months in and
we still have to integrate it into the business but we brought in Robert and other people that have
done that work in the past. Now we have the skill set. Now how does that practice mold in to the whole organization? That’s the tricky part, that’s
where dictatorship comes in. That’s where letting things happen the way they have to happen. I’m a big fan of letting things
lie so I’ve stayed hands-off for the first several
six and a half months. Now maybe I feel like maybe
like I’ll get my hands in a little bit dirtier
just get it molded in. Leadership is knowing when to
listen, knowing when to talk. Knowing when to take a
step back, knowing when to jump in and integrate it. But the commodity of
hiring people that have the skill set to do the
work, it’s out there. It’s just making the
leap to decide to do it. – Andrew asks “Do you plan
on embedding Facebook videos

just want to say thank you
because your book, Crush It!, allowed me to go out full time on my own. My question is why did you
start a service business, your agency, instead of
starting a media company, which you seem really good at? – Ryan, great question. I mean this is… Can we get like a, Can you make some sort an all time great episode alert thing here? Put it in my hand. (majestic music) This is a great question and it’s a very specific, detailed answer for a couple reasons. One, I’m not sure that I
was aware of how good I was at it five years ago. Two, I had an inkling when
we started VaynerMedia. The first project we worked
on was something called Daily1to10.com and we were doing Facebook
fan pages driving to a Tumblr. So, I was on that kick from the get, but three, the most practical thing was, I knew that speed mattered
and that money mattered, and that scale mattered
and the agency-client service business was very obvious to me as the quickest path to scale and money. Because now we have Vayner Publishing and we’re building out lostlettermen.com, you can check it out, we just bought it, wait for the redesign, but
we’re now staring to get into the media business and we
have the infrastructure and the scale and the skill set. And I have 500 people that
I’ve been able to effect with my thinking. They’ve got to counter that
with their own thinking, but clearly, as a CEO and a
thought leader in a space, I’m sure I’m evolving their
thinking towards a direction that picks up speed. Because the more I agree with them, and they agree with me, the quicker we can be
at what we need to do. So, really, the answer
to your question is, because I’m patient. I thought the right
strategy was to build out an infrastructure that
allowed me to get to it later. Plus, not to mention, media’s evolved enormously
in those five years. And if you look at media
and the upside of media, and the media sites of today, five years ago they were very
predicated on SEO and SEM, something that I never really loved. Now, we’re predicated more on
social sharing and content, something I love more. So, I think that, my intuition, and I’d like to think rightfully so, at the time was, I was not the
perfect player for that time. But my intuition was, there’s
a chance that the market may move into that, if I’m in a certain place
in five years to capture the market’s evolution on
the media side perfectly, then I can win triple. And I think I’m starting to maybe play out and benefit on that bet. So, I was just strategic about it. “What usually prompts you
to walk away or turn down

“I’ve been in sales for over
20 years and I’ve excelled at “being able to read
people’s body language. “But how do you do that over the Internet “or on Social Media?” – Todd, first of all, India, you’re crushing this episode, or maybe you VaynerNation,
actually forget you, India, you VaynerNation are
crushing this episode with the questions. The truth is I love this question. I love it because I’m
freaked out by the answer. And look, this falls very
much into bravado and ego, but that’s part of me too. I’ve been blown away by my
ability to make that transition. I too, did everything the way you did. I stood on a floor, I watched, I read. I do it all the time. It’s why I love Q an A, it’s why I love public speaking, it’s why I don’t have a set presentation. I’m reading the room in real time. I’m reading my staff. It’s how I scale my
ability to read at scale. Like walking through the
12th floor and be like, that person’s in trouble. It’s weird, kind of like I don’t
even like talking about it. It’s like a really nice
innate skill that has helped me scale my personality. I, for some reason, feel
those feelings in people’s comments and tweets. Now, maybe it took me a long
time to get the cadence. Of course, there’s been times
where I’ve maybe read into it wrong because context and tone is lost, but I’ve go to tell you, my intuition is if you go
hardcore in trying to do that through Twitter, through
your Facebook comments on your posts, and this is more about me
reading people responding to my stuff so maybe I know where
the North Star starts, but it’s been stunning to me
that exactly what I’ve done in the real world is how I
scaled Twitter, specifically, in being able to read people’s emotions and asking for clarity. Maybe in the real world, my man, we don’t ask for clarity. I won’t say DRock, are you feeling, oh you’re feeling uneasy
about this wine, cool, let’s go in a different direction. Maybe I have to ask that
a little bit more tangibly black and white in a
conversation on digital, but it’s the same effort, same mentality, and the beauty is emojis
and short form and slang have given more context around
the written word online. We, as human beings, are great at communicating. People grossly underestimate our ability to be communicators. Whether drawing on caves
or making smoke signals or radio television, the written word, the Internet, commenting, emojis, we’re talented at this. I’m watching all of us evolve. Very many of us, many of you
who have been romantic about grammar, have finally let it go. All of us are misspelling words on purpose so it auto-corrects, because we value the speed. We’re using emojis, not only 13 year olds
or just people in Asia, now it is a worldwide phenomenon. We’re evolving and we’re great at it, so I look for those cues
and keep trying to evolve and stay ahead of where I
think we’re all evolving to. – Hey Gary, Ryan here
from onproperty.com.au,

“Like you, I believe there
is so much to be gained “from social media, but what
do you think we have lost “or are in danger of losing?” – Benjamin, I think this
is a great question. I haven’t given this a lot of
thought because the truth is, I’m such an optimist. The truth is, I think most people default
into cynicism and pessimism, (ding) that I think I allow those
people to do that work for me. But, what I do think about, the one thing that is interesting to me, is I do feel that all of us, especially the ones that decide
to participate in putting out content, which if
you look at the data, may not be at full, full scale
in the 70s, 80s, and 90s, gets bigger as you go down. And as the younger you get, the more you’re really putting out content whether in private form or public form. I think the most
interesting thing is that, I think we’re losing peace of mind. And that’s different than privacy. I think that we all now
know we’re living a life on the record. Whether we decide to put it
out there in selfie form, or if we just happen to be
in the background of somebody doing it. And what that does is it
makes us all kind of be on the record, tense up, right? We’re in PR form. I think a lot of us are
living the PRed version of our lives to the public. It’s always the pictures of
us at concerts and on trips. People do share, you know my Facebook feed is really, basically the extremes, and maybe I’m evolving my answer here. I think we’re losing the middle. Maybe I’ll change my answer because when I think about what’s happening, is everybody’s like, look at me, I’m at a Beyonce concert front row, right? By the way, massively interesting data
that I’m looking at of why people are now going to
public events just to take the selfie to say they were there, which is why concert and sporting events, it’s amazing how social is
making the real world business go up. But then, number two, I see a lot of people on my Facebook feed and my social feeds, sharing their tragedies. Literally, yesterday’s Facebook scroll, which I do occasionally, was literally people announcing
that they’ve become sick or pictures of their daughter
with open heart surgery. Just these real extreme emotions, and then the other things which is like, I’m at Bora Bora and
I’m living the best life and I’m pouring champagne down my throat. The middle is getting
kind of squeezed as we are going to social. Ironically, the middle is peaceful, right? The middle is less tense. The middle is relaxing. The little lacks tension. So, for me, I’m good because I need insanity. Like right now I’m pissed. As you may notice behind me, we’ve opened up a 12th floor. (hip hop music) That’s right, DRock, you’re going to go down there
and film some 12th floor. That hurts me because now the
insanity’s down a little bit, but I recognize that I’m
an anomaly of somebody who needs to blast Weezy songs, at full blast, for a six-hour flight to San
Francisco yesterday to get off and be able to do my thing. I worry about the people
that are more centered or introverted in this
environment where we’re getting suffocated by storytelling
and our public personas, whether we intend to do it or
we become a byproduct of it. So, I think separating our public life to our private life is going to become more and more difficult
and we’re losing that. It was just a hell of a
lot easier back in the day. Ironically, keep it rolling, ironically, I think that’s
where Snapchat’s winning. I think Snapchat is content of the middle. If you think about it, the
shit you put on Snapchat, you’d never make an
Instagram photo, right? It’s just the shit you don’t
care because it goes away. You don’t care about the lighting, it’s almost the closest
thing to real life.

Meerkat is nothing more
than a cute animal, and Twitter isn’t even as
dominant as it is in the US. Would you recommend that I still go there and wait?” – Max, I think that the question is very solid, but actually you should have been able to level up and figure it out for yourself. Here’s what I mean by that. It’s the same thesis that
I talk about in the US. Meerkat is just an animal in the US too and so is Periscope, and so is Snapchat 38 months ago. Yes, every country, like here’s an answer. Will every country like the
same social networking apps and they will hit scale? Absolutely not. It’s funny. Unfortunately, as India
was reading the question I know that Twitter never
popped to real scale at Germany, I was gonna say that. You said it in the question. Look, I think that it’s super important for you to understand what I
mean by sit there and hope. The upside of being an earlier
mover in a new platform that has the potential
to pop is so much greater than the downside of
going to a new platform and wasting your four, five or 10 weeks or 10 months, and it didn’t pop, and that’s why I’ll always do it. That’s about as basic as it gets. That was probably the
best way that I’ve ever articulated it. Thank you Max from Germany for putting me in a position to succeed right now, because that’s it. That’s just it. It’s just that simple. Especially when you’re
an entrepreneur and time is what you have, not money. You entrepreneurs in the
VaynerNation are pissing me off to such an extreme,
because you’re debating these things, and you cry that
you don’t have enough money to compete with the big guys, but then you cry about wasting your time. Oh, you mean the only God damn asset you have besides your raw talent to have any potential to win? Yeah, I think it’s a
good use of your time. – Hey Gary, it’s Brandon
from Human Cry from

“I’m speaking to parents
at a public school event “on parenting in a social media world. “What would you teach them?” – Every time I get in front of parents, they get really upset
with me because my move is to punch them directly in the mouth. Parents are becoming their
parents on an everyday basis. I would tell them that
they’re fearing technology and they’re forcing their
kids to spend less time on it, which is not preparing them for the actual world in the future. I would tell them that they talk about how much they hate technology
and its impact on kids, but they should look
themselves in the mirror because every time they
don’t wanna parent, or the kid’s crying a little
bit more than they like, they throw an iPad at them
like it’s a Chinese star. I would tell them that they’re
full of shit and hypocrites and should never try to
build their self-esteem through their kids’ accomplishments. If your little Ricky is
the best baseball player in the fourth grade team, that
has nothing to do with you, except it has your DNA, but
like don’t walk around like you’re the best player
on the fourth grade team. So, you know, I would tell them that it’s never been a better
time to be a parent because all the social networking tools allow us to spy on our kids
and know what they’re doing at a level we’ve never seen before. I’m, you know, I used
to think it was great that I lived in New York,
that I wouldn’t have to worry about drunk driving. Now no parent does because by the time their kids are of age, Uber will be at scale. I would tell them to stop playing defense and stop being scared
and start playing offense and start being pumped. – [Voiceover] Moveandbezel asked,