Gary Vaynerchuk - Social Media Diva

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The new web connects people - Now you can reach people directly!
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Successful by managing an on-line platform or a blog

These days everybody can make a living by doing what he/she loves most. You might not make it to one of those featured on CNN or Today’s Show but you have a good chance to make a good living by doing what you are passionate about. The internet allows you with numerous FREE marketing tools and shareware to achieve your dreams. You can use community platforms like Facebook, MySpace, Friendster to get in touch with peeps and use tools like Twitter, Tumblr, Ping to spread your message out there. All those tools and platforms are out there for FREE and wait for you to get used properly.

Using those tools will not guarantee your success they will just help you to achieve your goals.

First step to become successful in on-line business, you need to evaluate yourself truly and learn everything you possibly can about your passion. There is no way around it and you need to be willing to do what it takes – if you wish to be triumphant. You need to know and find out everything about your passion to become the best because competition is huge out there and only the finest will be successful.

Second step to take is you need to build yourself a nice home, it doesn’t matter if it is an informative blog or an instructive website or simply a community platform, you need to build your home in a way that it suites and serves your idea best around your passion. Your home is where you live and where you bring the peeps you met on the various community parties to hang out while they showed an interest in you or your passion already. The other peeps you met, you need to leave them alone, because you don’t go to parties to pitch everybody or do you want to be the geek. Just leave them alone, they might come later on by themselves by reading your web address on your detailed profile you set-up.

Third step is you need to work hard, hustle and get involved with like minded people. There is no secret. You need to engage into conversations in forums, blogs and in communities where those people are and publish valuable content around your passion by writing on blogs and/or uploading videos and/or pod casts and/or pictures for FREE. Share and give out as much valuable content you can – you will be rewarded with lot of eyeballs that you can monetize, other people will pay it back to you by doing business with you.

This is how it works out there, but make no mistake, it’s a lot of work and requires determination and patience to be victorious at the end.

Now good luck and just do it!

Small town rules apply in global business now

Due to the social media tools like Twitter, Facebook, Youtube, Tumblr and others the world has become closer, a small town ecosystem. For today’s business, small town business rules apply in a globalized business economy.

Everything is connected and everybody knows you, your business and your brand. So I am wondering how this will be handled by existing businesses and brands which aren’t use to care and give a crap about their users.

The rules of 1950’s will become more important when building a business and a brand. So you need to care about your customers and apply some of those rules to stay in business. Think about it.

What are your thoughts about that?

Make money doing what you love most

Today you can get paid with doing what you like to do! There are huge opportunities out there and everybody can play the game, just do what you are passionate about and hustle. Hustle, work hard and give a shit. This is the most important message I could give you today.

You need to be visible and transparent, basically you need to brand yourself!

In the past it was necessary to invest huge sums in TV spots, radio casts, magazine ads to market yourself, in today’s world this isn’t necessary any more. Your customers are everywhere you just need to lead them to you, your products, your services and you need to care about them.

Be supportive, Be Passionate, Be Patient

To succeed in today’s altered business ecosystem you need to speak with your customers by producing quality content about your passion. In a second step you need to listen to them and most essentially you need to give a shit about them. You need to care about them, you need to interact with them.

You need to be patient and work hard to succeed in this new business ecosystem called social media or web 2.0

To create a successful business on the internet you need to be everywhere, be passionate and patient, you need to work hard and hustle, you need to spend 80% to 90% of your working hours in the web to produce quality content – answer e-mails – post quality replies to blogs related to your activity or business.

What’s social media?

It’s word to mouth on steroids, if you have something to say and if it’s quality, because quality is always king, it gets expanded in so many directions and this is the real power of it because everybody has a voice and not certain select fields.

You need to treat social media like twitter – facebook – tumbler – flickr – youtube like a party and not like a presentation. You don’t use them to talk about business or pitch everybody. You try to get into conversation like you do on a party in the real world those media are just a translation into the virtual world and you should use it like that.

To communicate, just do it.