Crush It!
Do you have a hobby you wish you could do all day? An obsession that keeps you up at night? Now is the perfect time to take those passions and make a living doing what you love. In CRUSH IT! Why NOW Is The Time To Cash In On Your Passion, Gary Vaynerchuk shows you how to use the power of the Internet to turn your real interests into real businesses. Gary spent years building his family business from a local wine shop into a national industry leader. Then one day he turned on a video camera, and by using the secrets revealed in this book, transformed his entire life and earning potential by building his personal brand. By the end of this book, any reader will have learned how to harness the power of the Internet to make their entrepreneurial dreams come true. Step by step, Crush It! is the ultimate driver’s manual for modern business.
Gary Vaynerchuk has captured attention with his pioneering, multi-faceted approach to personal branding and business. After primarily utilizing traditional advertising techniques to build his family’s local retail wine business into a national industry leader, Gary rapidly leveraged social media tools such as Twitter and Facebook to promote Wine Library TV, his video blog about wine. Gary has always had an early-to-market approach, launching Wine Library’s retail website in 1997 and Wine Library TV in February of 2006. His lessons on social media, passion, transparency, and reactionary business are not to be missed!
The other day the Book Fairy dropped off a a galley of CRUSH IT! by Gary Vaynerchuk. The hour was late. I was tired. But I decided to stay up to give Gary’s work a little “sniffy sniff.” Well, I wound up reading straight through to the end and here’s what I think.
THUMBS UP! This book is a tour de force on building brand with social media. Presented in Gary’s honest, down -to-earth voice, it is full of practical, nuts -and- bolts tips and anecdotes. By the end of what is an amazingly smooth read, I felt imbued with confidence that Gary’s personal branding success story had applications for me and any passionate, dedicated entrepreneur who is patient, willing to hustle, realistic about their strengths and reactive to market changes.
What I especially like is the CARING that comes through with Gary’s advice and opinions. Gary appears a generous person who wants others to benefit from his hard work and experience. I was also taken by his visionary reflections on the future of traditional resumés, journalism, and the need to shine your own light when the big company you work for is hiding your lamp under a bushel.
Finally, I like Gary’s humanism–his love and pride in his family, his willingness to be expressive, even mushy.
In sum, BRAVO, Gary . CRUSH IT! is going to bring the bestselling thunder.
What a great book!
Everyone has a passion that they want to turn into a profit.
Get this book and stop being in the “E” quadrant!
thanks Gary!
I’ve got two words for this book, CRUSHED IT!
Truth be told Gary hasn’t even sent the galleys to me… yet. Shocking I know. As an author in the “personal growth” category–who has often been confused with fitness–I can not imagine him not seeking my views. But then again, he is busy.
So, why write a review if I’ve not read the book? Simple, it’s Gary. I know people and recognize transformational forces and Gary is both real people and a real force. His message is always rich and he respects himself and you too much to waste either’s time.
I can’t wait for the galleys to get here! Man… it’s going to be great.
Wait… is that FedEx at the door…
Back in a few hours! Yeah!
In Strength,
Shawn Phillips
author: Strength-for-Life, Absolution
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Great book for those of us that have a passion and need the courage to follow it! Gary gives you the basics on how to make a career out of anything. He is the proof of this American Dream!
There are quite a few stories like Gary’s out there but few could put it as passionately as he does.
If you have a real want to follow in his footsteps but don’t really understand how it can be done, feel free to follow my blog – that is my focus – helping Average Joes get wired and Inspired – http://www.Joebots.com.
Thanks. Happy reading!
Matt Javit
http://www.MattJavit.com