Gary Vaynerchuck
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- BusterBoy
I know there was a post about him a while ago but couldn't find anything using the super QBN filter!
Now when I first saw this guy, I thought he was an arrogant wannabe celeb blogger tossbag. SO I decided to do a bit of reseaech on the guy. Well after a while, you could see the guy is an extremely hard working and successful bloke. He has a really interesting and entertaining video wine blog and his retail business seems to be going great guns.
He has leveraged his new found celebrity and seems to be making a killing. I also heard he has signed a 10 book, multi-million dollar deal...so I decided to buy the book CrushIT.
Well fark me...this is the biggest load of drivel I have ever read. A real letdown as I was hoping to find something a lot more substantive. This 160 page book could have been summarised down to 5 or 10 pages without a problem. It's another example of a success story who believes that he can shrink wrap what happened to him and translate it to the masses, a premise that is just ridiculous really.
I still quite like the guy and enjoy his wine blogs, but as far as an author goes, he's a flop. And to think he has another 9 books to go!
- GRAC0
I was actually thinking about buying it. But then I realized that I've already seen similar books. Exactly like you say..could be a few pages brochure..
- dconstrukt0
he's a really cool guy... and makes BANK.
met him at a marketing conference.... i hear his new book crush it is awesome too!
- really? i just recently herad it it sucked.bogue
- its a marketing book... i'm into marketing online. if you're not, then dont read it. you wont like it.dconstrukt
- BusterBoy0
The books sucks. I agree he seems like a good guy and his wine video stuff is great, but seriously, if you think that's an awesome book, you need to expand your literary horizons.
- dconstrukt0
Who the fuck said its a literary work of art?
its a marketing book.
The guy is an amazing marketer.
You could learn something.
I think you need to check yourself buster.
- BusterBoy0
dconstrukt, have you read the book? Give me one really important new point he raises that hasn't already been done to death?
He is a brilliant marketer and has done a great job enhancing his own personal brand, but to suggest that anyone can make a shitload of cash using social media just because they are passionate is just silly.
"Follow your passion. Put your family first. Work hard." - cripes, they're revolutionary concepts.
- BTW, I admire the bloke for all his other endeavours.BusterBoy