He Fires Me Up!

I’ve previously posted on how motivating I find Gary Vaynerchuk to be.  Just today, his Web 2.0 Expo NY presentation from September 2008 where he discusses building a personal brand within the social media landscape crossed my path and I took the time to watch it again. With over 100,000 views, I’d say a few other people find it relevant as well. He so well articulates a perspective I 100% agree with in regards to business today and what I need to focus on to succeed. I want to be able to always find it in the future so I decided to post it here on my blog – figured it would be an effective bookmark :)

His simple points that resonate with me:

• Have passion – Do what you love.  Stop doing what you hate.
• Have patience
• Care about everything.  Including yourself.
• Care about your user base
• Have a business model
• Reputation matters
• Content matters
• Understand that the game is changing
• It is about brand equity.  Create brand equity around yourself.
• People consume content everywhere
• Be completely transparent.  Everything you do is exposed.
• Work hard.  9-5 is out the door.

His 15 minute presentation can be viewed here.  You’ll be fired up too.