| Crush It!: Why NOW Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion |  | Author: Gary Vaynerchuk
Publisher: Harper Studio
Category: Book
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Languages: English (Unknown), English (Original Language), English (Published)
Media: Hardcover
Edition: First Edition
Pages: 142
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Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 6.5 x 0.7
ISBN: 0061914177
EAN: 9780061914171
ASIN: 0061914177
Publication Date: October 13, 2009
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PDo 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. /P P 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, http://tv.winelibrary.com, 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!/P
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p align="left"span class="h1"strongThe Story Behind emCrush it!/em/strong/span/p pimg align="right" border="0" hspace="5" src="http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/books/harpercollins-ems/vaynerchuk-250.jpg" vspace="5" / Everything has changed. The social media revolution has irreversibly changed the way we live our lives and conduct our business. There are billions of dollars in advertising moving online, waiting to be claimed by whoever can build the best content and communities. Despite this change, most people keep working at jobs that don’t make them happy and businesses continue to ignore the major marketing and public relations benefits that can be found online. br //p pstrongMyth #1: /strongemI’m not passionate about something sexy or popular like wine so these lessons don’t apply to me. /embr //p pThe internet has drastically decreased the costs of building communities around niche subjects, allowing for even the most obscure subjects to draw enough eyeballs to command advertising attention. Starting a video blog about tortilla chips may seem farfetched until Doritos gives you a call and offers 40,000 a year to sponsor and advertise on your blog. br //p pstrongMyth #2:/strong emMy business already has a Twitter account and a Facebook page, we’re set in the social media department. /embr //p pThis is the equivalent of claiming twenty years ago that just because your business bought a TV spot and a few ads in the newspaper, you didn’t need to pay attention to your advertising department. Social media isn’t about joining in, it’s about being involved. br //p pstrongMyth #3:/strong emI’m happy at my job so this book is irrelevant to me./em br //p pFirst of all, congratulations on finding work that makes you happy! However, the lessons in this book are valuable to anyone, regardless of their employment status. emCrush It/em will show you how to utilize high level and platform specific social media and marketing strategies that will improve your work. It will also show you how to build a personal brand so that even if you’re forced to leave your job, a situation that’s especially relevant today, you’ll be able to easily find employment elsewhere in a field you’re passionate about. br //p pstrongMyth #4:/strong emI need to quit my job to take advantage of this book’s entrepreneurial lessons. /embr //p pWhile the entrepreneurial strategies in this book do take time, it’s completely reasonable to start the effort as an after-work project to build up until you’re able to replace your current income with the income from your online presence. While you may have to fall behind on the current season of Lost or let your Madden 2010 game suffer, because you’ll be doing something you love you won’t mind putting in the extra effort. br //p pIn emCrush It/em, Gary Vaynerchuk shows how anyone can build a career around what they’re passionate about. He also delivers both high-level and platform specific strategy and analysis, allowing you to take advantage of the current business environment while preparing you to succeed as it changes and evolves. br //p pThis book isn’t interested in making unrealistic promises while glossing over the work involved. Making a living by building content around your passion isn’t simple and it doesn’t happen overnight. What it is, however, is fulfilling and in most cases just as profitable, if not more so, than your previous job. br //p pFurthermore, a business can’t just pay lip service to social media and expect it to return results. The transparency and accountability inherent in its structure necessitates a comprehensive and dedicated strategy in order to reap its tremendous benefits. br //p pBy combining practical analysis and strategy with the same passion and humor that’s made Gary one of the most in demand keynote speakers in the U.S. as well as network television’s go to wine expert, emCrush It/em is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand and harness the future of business and work. br //p pstrongLearn: /strongWhy social media has evened the playing field, destroying the “gate-keepers” who had previously dictated the distribution of content./p pstrongLearn:/strong How to beat unemployment and create wealth-building opportunities by building and maintaining a personal brand. br //p pstrongLearn:/strong Why storytelling is the most important business concept in the current marketplace. br //p pstrongLearn:/strong How you can build an online business around your passion without quitting your day job. br //p pstrongLearn:/strong Why Twitter and Facebook are just tools and not a social media strategy. br //p pstrongLearn:/strong How to take advantage of the half-billion dollars in advertising that are moving to the internet. br //p pstrongLearn:/strong Why transparency and being true to yourself are now winning marketing formulas. br //p pstrongLearn:/strong How to build and maintain an online community around your passion and brand. br //p pstrongLearn:/strong Strategies for turning attention into money. br //p pstrongLearn:/strong Why the legacy element of the internet era is so underrated./p
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