You know like being a thought leader is crippling to people because they think they have to be a leader. I think it’s being a thought contributor, right? So the reason I hate when people are like oh, you have to be a thought leader, I’m like no you don’t, you have to be a thought contributor. Now at its worst is what we see on social media every day, which is people pontificate as keyboard warriors about shit they don’t know. At best I think it’s all of us being very self-aware and deploying what we know.
This portion is like with me, so I think this is when one you need to get selfish, like you ask your question. (upbeat music) Hiring is guessing, firing is knowing. Like you gotta go fast, that’s how you get shit done, that’s out figure stuff out. This is the television and the television is the radio. The 4Ds mother fuckers. – My first question is how do I gain the trust with ad agencies or anything if I’m not actually producing the content? I’m more so like the project manager/account manager– – By reverse engineering what they value, so you may not be able to for some shops.
– Sure. – For other shops just getting the volume of output at a cost that allows them to make margin is what they care about. I think one of– – Budget turnover. – Yeah, so I think what you need to do is make sure, this will play for several people in the room, I think one of the biggest mistakes that companies make in agency landscape and SAS products is wasting time on selling to the unsellable. I’m just fascinated by people’s ideology that they want this customer as if that customer is any more valuable than the other person that pays $6.99 a month because they made it emotional.
To me the best way to sell something is to be unemotional and go fast and so there will be many people that don’t want to do business with you because of that and there will be many people that don’t give a shit. What you need to do is spend as little time trying to convince and as much time as you can finding the ones that are aligned, yep. Makes sense? – Yeah, totally.
– I’ll let you sneak one more in because that was quick and then we’ll get the third, we’re gonna try to go around as many times as we can. – Pretty much I guess again me just now starting out, how do you approach people trying to share your post or leave a comment you know and that type of thing? Like do you approach friends and friends share or is it you’re trying to get your target audience? – You know I think there’s a lot of different points of view and obviously there’s a platform being built just down the table to like help scale, but to me the thing that we’ll spend time on when I get to her is like I don’t think all posts are created equal and so to me you have to be agenda driven so for me I think it’s more about you joining Facebook groups, you creating LinkedIn creative, which I think will work for a lot of you and then target with AdSpend against agencies and you replying thoughtfully.
You should map every single CEO that is a creative shop that you want to do business with, follow her or him on every platform and then thoughtfully leave a comment of two to three sentences to every post. I genuinely believe depth wins the social game not width and I think everyone’s buying into width so for me I think that’s how you do it. – Okay. – I think you create your best thoughts and put them out and I think you community manage AKA leave creative comments on things that you think resonate in your world. – Okay, cool. – I apologize real quick. I’ll give you an example.
Just leaving some thoughtful point of view on photography under the creative lead of a 15% agency in Dallas leads to business development for you because she sees that and she’s like who’s this woman, you know? – Or even add other people that follow her when I see it on the comments. Cool, thanks. – But where everybody fucks up in my opinion is they go for scale not depth, so like I see a lot of people buying automation tools to like people’s posts just ’cause they think that gets them awareness. Like a lot of short tactics that are good for vanity metrics for five minutes, but terrible for business. – Okay. – So one thing we run into in our industry is people are pretty cagey with saying that they’re using a certain product or you know, they wanna keep everything close to the vest, but we found referrals word-of-mouth and people asking who are other users are to be the fastest sales.
So kind of– – I would turn that into creative and pump a living shit out of that on LinkedIn. You know, what’s that? – Well I just as far as like writing articles or– – Yep. Audio yep, video yep. I think you know one of the things, so for example, I think and this is really a fun time to say it ’cause it’s two posts ago or three now if you look at my Instagram there’s a cartoon. Now my cartoons or comics or whatever you want to call ’em have done quite well. Ironically the one that’s posted three posts ago is one of my least performing posts in a long, long time, which is perfect because it lets me make my point.
The answer is yes to everything, which is why no matter what you were gonna say I was and say yes and I was gonna do what I just did because the reality is, is that people consume content differently and so like the reason, the number one goal you have is to eliminate friction for the person you’re trying to sell to at scale. LinkedIn, which is something I didn’t talk about at all until like 18 months or 12 months ago, the reason it’s coming so much out of my mouth right now is it’s the first platform since Facebook that has so much organic scale, like you have no brand, you’ve done nothing, and you can literally write an article about why you think Boca is a good market to invest in, why you’re somebody good to invest in, why the Boca school, my recommendation think like a publisher not like a selfish salesperson.
Why the Boca school system is up-and-coming, because you know, whatever it may be. That post for you with no presence on LinkedIn is gonna be seen by way more people than you can ever imagine. There is no platform right now that gives free organic reach with no paid support even remotely close to face, to LinkedIn. And even the fact that I almost just said Facebook was really interesting to me an insight because it was the only other place, like it used to be search on Google. Like if this was a meeting in 1999 I would be yelling at all of you and be like okay, so is this new thing called SEO and you have to figure out how to be number one on it, fuck the yellow pages, like you know? It’s all been one game of that. Where can you get the most awareness for the least? LinkedIn. It’s really uncomfortable. Now for you you’re so specific that I would actually spend the ad money to target people in the art business and all of you can do that. The ads are a little more expensive on LinkedIn, but they’re stunningly targeted.
What I like is you’ve already figured out what works. Some of us don’t know yet. Now you turn those testimonials into creative, but find a way to make the testimonial feel less like an infomercial at night. So you have to be, I’ll give you a great example. I am gonna give you this one, I think this would kill. Get five of them, three of them, in literally radical candor. Email them and be like hey, we’re about to do some Linkedin content but instead of asking you to do a video for me, testimonial, I’d like to invite you and four of my other high-quality clients to dinner. I wanna buy you a nice dinner, we’re gonna have some nice bottles of wine, and we’re gonna talk about the art industry as a whole and I’m gonna film it and then do chop ups and then put it on LinkedIn.
Then as the hostess, you’ll talk about macro, but you’ll find ways to integrate things about your business, which inevitably will lead to some great quote. You know, Johnny says, “Fuck, “yeah we used to fuck that up before you.” Got it? – Yeah. – So what I’m very good at and actually this is very meta. This right now is more for the content than what you’re paying our company to be here. Just is. This is not, especially running it through Vayner and all the overhead, not the best use of my time financially.
It’s I want the questions and the content. If you look at how much of the content I’ve been putting out the last year is from 4Ds. This puts me in a good position to create a new idea. The flub of Linkedin and Facebook, Dustin can now quote and that could be a two million viewed because that’s an interesting piece of content. I looked at him earlier when I said something to you, I can’t remember like the depth width thing, you know. So even like literally the advice I’m giving you I’m living in the meta right now. Create environments, this can lead to, by the way, this could lead to why you would do an exhibit at your best friends gallery about your product, strictly about the subject of the business of art, but you’re filming it, boom. Got it? – Yeah. – It’s really interesting. I want to get everybody to think like a publisher. I need to make you think like art magazine, like Real Estate Investment monthly.
Like Vogue, not like the company you are ’cause then you go from a commercial to quality content that actually people want and then if I tell you where to put it that’s under priced, that’s the story of my life. That’s who I am, that’s how I got here. Bring value and figure out where it’s under priced, so you get the maximum amount of brand equity from. This LinkedIn thing is a dream because it’s a business context world, but it’s acting like Facebook. And everybody’s being successful, it’s crazy. I’m getting emails. It reminds me of early, it definitely will work. So that’s what I would do. Plus then you’re also doing retention. You’re buying a nice dinner for, right? You’re like you’re winning on so many fronts. Like people don’t do a good job with farming, they do a good job with hunting, more customers, more customers. But they don’t do a good enough job saying thank you to the ones they got. – So as I mentioned before, my company is basically in the infancy.
I’m trying to just get my toe in the water. So my first question I guess is where would you start if you were me? – And this is the concept of not wanting to be at the mercy of brokers selling your properties? – Selling my property but also leasing the space– – From a commercial standpoint? – Yeah. – But this is strictly on that side of it, right? This is not to raise capital from investors? – So basically my plan is to do a couple deals and then raise money.
– Understood. And you have some inventory? – Yeah, I have about 300,000 square feet of office space. – In Boca and Jersey? – Yeah. – Understood. And so to me I think you’re barking up a really interesting tree and it’s something I think a lot about, because I think it’s quite a lucrative space because there’s so much margin being made by the brokers and there’s no innovation being done by the developers. I started giving you previews of it. Couple things. Based on that square footage, first, you have the reverse engineer who’s likely to rent from you. So is this localized or is this at such scale that we’re looking for national players? – So they’re basically different kinds of buildings. The one has got 20,000 square foot floor plans where I have like Geico and big institutional, where I still would think it’s local at least to Central Jersey. Might go to South Plainfield or towns in the neighboring area, but it’s pretty localized.
And then Boca is the opposite, I have like 60 small offices from 500 to maybe 3,000 max, 4,000 max. And so they’re like local business owners– – So there’s two ways for everybody to go here, it’s a good time to put it into play. We’ve gone down the path of more of content as a publisher. You either want to become the magazine or the guy or gal they put on the front of the magazine. And if you think about it, that’s what I’ve done both of, right, for my companies we’re the magazine. For me, Gary Vee, I’m the one on the cover.
You’re a reserved dude, but I never think that that’s a prerequisite to building a personal brand. My biggest fear is that I believe building personal brand, which I view is not charlatan, but more like having a reputation in 1947. I always worried that if I’m the messenger of that advice that people think that they should do it the way I do it, which is very hyperbola, my energy is pretty over-the-top. That’s my natural energy when I’m on camera or on stage, but I think that you have to make a decision of one or the other or both. And by the way, that goes for both of you as well. Being a thought leader is crippling to people because they think they have to be a leader. I think it’s being a thought contributor. So the reason I hate when people are like oh, you have to be a thought leader. I’m like no you don’t, you have to be a thought contributor.
Now at its worst is what we see on social media every day, which is people pontificate as keyboard warriors about shit they don’t know. At best I think it’s all of us being very self-aware and deploying what we know. So you’re a young, is this a business you started as a family business, what is this? – [Man] Yeah, so it started as a family business and basically I just spun off on my own.
– Understood. So like that’s was my intuition given the scale or some other unusual reasoning. That’s a huge advantage for you. You get to– – I’m only 28. – Right and so you get to lean in and say look, this is, you know like I think that’s an incredible thing to like lean into, which is you have something I had at 28, which is at 28 years old I knew everything about the wine and spirits business because I’ve been doing it since I was 14 and I was doing it passionately and I gave up school and social life to be the best at it. And so by the time I was 28 I was fucking, by time I was 28 I was done actually. I’d achieved what I set out to do at 22. I built one of the largest independent stores. I built a big business for my dad and I was ready to kind of actually start transitioning into something else. That’s why Wine Library TV and all this other stuff started happening which led to the Gary Vee that we know today and so I think that’s an incredible place for you to play, but you have to be self-aware and you don’t have to build a personal brand.
If we’re gonna build it through the company’s name ’cause you’re more comfortable with that then I think you need to produce a show or content. Either a running podcast, which again, doesn’t even have to be you. Preferably you because when you lose the star that’s a problem. I think it’s has, So Boca I’m very interested in, I’ll tell you why.
I think if you started a podcast called The Boca Small Business Forum, you would crush. This is something might everybody I know, Nick, and I know you guys have heard this multiple times. The high school party concept, which is if you host it, you have the leverage. So I was always fascinated. Alan Shaubauer, big shout out Alan, did it in my high school.
Took advantage of his parents not being around, threw the parties, went from a C-plus, he was be B-minus when he first came, but went right to an A popularity ’cause he hosted the party. Again, whether it’s you or some other way you do it if you have the Boca Business Podcast and you now are inviting other businesses like the queen bee that’s been there for 54 years is the baker or the real estate agent or whoever. The guy who’s got the sailing company, like you host a party, within five, six months you have the podcast at every SMB in Boca is listening to, aspiring to be on, but what it really becomes is a gateway drug to you leasing out your space.
You don’t have to mention it once and you’ll lease it out. You don’t have to mention it once, they’re just gonna be like who is that kid? Oh he owns a lot, you know? Like it’s so, I always tell people let your profile do your selling. Put out a lot of value in your content. If people like it they’re gonna click your URL in your Instagram. Let your profile do your selling. So I think those are the themes that I’m thinking. – [Man] And the platform you suggest? – I love the idea, you guys haven’t done the personal brand part yet? Like the content tree? So I will push everybody to podcasts, like you would not believe. Even more than video because I think video is a bigger mental and infrastructural jump for many. I love podcasts because of the following: you do a podcast, you film the podcast, which gives you video. You get the guests audience when they’re a guest, because they’re gonna promote it bringing you awareness. I’m obsessed. – [Man] And so how would you come up with content for this? – Interview, that’s the best part.
I’m good at what I do and do something almost no, if you look at the top 100 podcasts outside of like shows that are scripted like Serial, the amount of individual humans who have a podcast where they don’t interview somebody in the top 500 is almost non-existent. It’s like me and I haven’t done enough homework, but like maybe, just not a lot. I’m trying to think who does a straight-talking no other guests. I don’t know, nonetheless. Podcasts are fucking lay up. Especially if you go my route and level up and make it broader. The Boca Business Podcast. The first person can be the fucking third generational guy who’s 58 who owns the boat company in town that’s been crushing for years and when you email him on LinkedIn or his email and say, “Hey John, do you want to be the first guest “on the Boca Business Podcast?” The answer is yes, because John’s not being asked by anybody to be on a podcast.
Got it? And then literally the content’s of piece of cake. So John tell us about how you got started. So John what’s happening now? How’s Boca changed in the last, like you’re fucking 40 minutes done before you even started. Asking four questions and going to sleep. – Yeah so what do you think, you know, about maybe expanding to Palm Beach county so that we have– – Yep, fuck to be frank, depending on your ambitions and skill set, make it Florida.
– Yeah, South Florida or something. – I’ll push you to America, I just need to know what your ambitions and capabilities are. Does that make sense? – [Man] Yeah. – I love hyper local, because I think it creates depth of results in a very narrow place. But I love national if you’ve got the juice, go. You know? Then you put the podcast on all the platforms, which is very easy, you can google it, or we can tell you. That’s just like record, upload, Spotify, SoundCloud, iTunes, Stitcher. But then if you record it and let’s get it straight here. For the first eight years of my career I didn’t have a team.
So the way I would have done it is like I would have to have my iPhone on the table and recorded it. And then literally posted the raw fucking video on LinkedIn. So you know people, again, being the messenger of a lot of these things right now scares me, because I have a level of notoriety now, leverage, infrastructure, but I got here by doing what I’m telling you to do. – So in another life I was a rock N’ roll DJ. – Amazing. – My last gig was broadcasting to 20 million listeners a day for XM. That’s crazy. – So I have some of that– – That in you. – Yeah. – That’s good I mean look, that’s as you know, like to me I hope people don’t shy away from that. You should triple down on that.
It’s the top of the funnel. – I do. – Good. – Whether it’s pitching or vlogging or interviews we do it– – Good, good. – Which is great, like my team calls me Kalee, Kalee from (mumbles) – I love it. – So I have a couple questions. I’m making one short ’cause we– – No worries. – One is I do a video of the day in addition to other video, this is a minute long roughly and it goes to our Facebook profile, mostly exclusively, sometimes else where.
It’s just me holding my phone and I say, “It’s a day in the life of a start up entrepreneur.” – Love. – And I share– – Whatever, today I was at VaynermMedia. – Yeah, exactly. And it’s usually some kind of real deep insight so one of the things that I love about radio and podcasts is pulling back the black curtain and giving people that access to, that’s where the Theater of the Mind comes into me.
Of course I’ve been in a million green rooms so I like that and I’ve learned that my audience likes that as well. So we use that video to give people that behind-the-scenes look of what it’s like. And it’s female entrepreneurship is hot– – Of course, of course, which is great. – So we sometimes put it on Instagram. Once in awhile if it’s super short on Twitter but I’m I’m thinking about LinkedIn of course. – You have to put it everywhere you know that, right? – Well the LinkedIn we haven’t because I’m concerned– – You have to put it everywhere, contextually post produced for everywhere. – Yes and here’s why I haven’t on LinkedIn and this is what I’m going to ask because it sometimes is not very investor friendly because sometimes I’m really honest. That’s where they all are. – No. – Just do it? – Yeah, that to me is like cool. First of all, let me give you great advice. Any investor that won’t want to invest in you because it’s not investor friendly, is not somebody you would have won with anyway.
It’s not your DNA. It’s like me thinking about that shit. Got it? – [Woman] Just put it out there. – You want to hear something even better? It’s gonna help you. What its gonna actually do is keep those investors away, which is gonna save you three to eight bullshit meetings that are going to cost you time in the future. It’s probably gonna make the investor that you actually want come to you instead of you going to her or him.
You understand? – [Woman] Yes. – This is a big game of wanting nos and that’s where everyone’s getting confused. Think about what I’m doing. I’m super not friendly to a lot of things too. Patriot fans don’t want to work with me, people that don’t like cursing. – [Woman] So it’s easier. – So it really will help you. – [Woman] Okay, thank you. – You’re welcome. – [Man] So first question, so the construction industry’s rather behind when it comes to technology. – That’s your advantage. – Yeah, so how do we sell to the companies and– – It’s similar to what I gave her. – Big companies, the Relateds, the Skansas, the you know? – Well those companies because I know with Related, they’re super sophisticated. – [Man] Oh yeah. – So they’re not behind, like to me the biggest companies will judge you on merit like what are they using alternatively? Whether there’s a direct competitor or not.
Is there a legacy tech competitor, which everybody deals with? Like did with Resy with OpenTable. We just had a really big exit to American Express. Big win for us. We had to deal with OpenTable. There was a legacy and that was bad. Restaurants were further along, had infrastructure, but we innovated and made a better product. Other things, Buddy Media, back to your world, like an investment that I did well with. Not even, I gave a quote to and got a lot of shares and did extremely well.
Mike Lazaro won because it was first, but he got a lot of nos, like Vayner. Vayner got an ungodly amount of nos 2009 to 2014. Just ’cause people didn’t even believe in social. Now they believe in it, but they look at it in different ways and our nos come from the way they look at it, not don’t believe in it at all. Related and others are sophisticated enough to know if there is technology. Is an Excel sheet and a piece of paper better than paying you? Or are you perfect? I think the long tail is where it gets a little bit more interesting where there is pushback. – Because a lot of the people that are in the fields are old school and they like to do things the old school way and they don’t, even if the technology is good, they’re just stubborn and don’t want to use it. – It’s the story of human beings. Every industry has that. My dad didn’t take credit cards or have a computerized register when I first started. – [Man] I use it.
– Right, you have their patience for the 28 year olds to take control or you need to be smart and not bang your head against the steel pillar to the people that won’t say no and find the five. What I’d be looking for, I would do homework on this, if I was your partner I was like okay, sales plan. Hey, ’cause I’ve come in and I don’t know anything, I’d be like hey, can we get somebody to get a list of every family, family-centric organization that already now has the daughter or son that’s under 40 in the business. Give me that list. I’d be like okay then, then I would look at that list and like okay, in order of size or close to us and be like alright let’s go the Martinis because Sarah Martini is now in the business, she’s 29, we’ve done the intel, she’s worked there.
She left, she went to business school, she came back to the family biz, she’s there. She inevitably is gonna be more open to this conversation. The end. – [Woman] And they’re all named in sense. – Right. (laughing) I met one of their daughters the other day, good company. Yeah, it was awesome. Old school dude and three daughters, they would fucking, I was like literally my first piece of advice for them was like you need a show on Bravo. (laughing) Fuck the construction company. – And you would put content, like what kind of content? Saving money, saving time? – No, yes, but I would make jokes. – [Man] Make it comedic and funny and– – I have found a lot of success in areas that are more like what I come, I come from the liquor business. I come from the construction business, we just didn’t build things, we sold liquor. It was that and I think one of the fun things about those real old-school businesses is jokes. I would probably, I’d never give this advice but I’m giving it to you, I’d probably get some NYU actors and actresses and literally reenact scenes from the field that are just cliche that could go viral within the community.
It’s funny, I got really upset the other day at the airport because somebody was being really rude to an airline employee and just sometimes things click and I made this video, it was super narrow. I’d go pretty general with my content these days, but it was like airline employee stuff so we posted it, we did whatever, it did fine. I think pretty solid actually for narrow.
– [Man] Yeah, we ran ads too. – Ran some ads against employees of that world because I can tell you right now I ran through LAX yesterday and fucking was like put on, I think I could, like it was unbelievable. Like 20 different airline employees were like oh, thank you so much. (laughing) It like penetrated the subculture, so I think you’re one funny video away from cliche. All of us are picturing the guys in the video now doing some dumb shit on a piece of paper, the wind comes along and takes the pic, like just literally reenact or do it in cartoon form. I think it would work. Facebook will work for you because that community’s on that platform. – Because I was thinking about maybe possibly putting out like some nostalgic type content where it kind of hits to the old-timers who think of the construction– – I actually think the old-timers, I think the old-timers are your problem.
I think you’re making content for 28 year old Sally and for the decision makers in comedic form and information form. Save money, same time, they know that. The 32 year old CFO in all these companies or accountant you know, they know. They just don’t have the leverage to make the move. But they make the call. Like ultimately in these cliche examples, junior, sons makes the call. You’re not gonna win fucking 63 year old Sal ever. – [Man] They’re not gonna change. – Fuck you. Computer, that’s all bullshit. You see these hands? (laughing) Right, you know, you know. I’m telling you right now, it’s advice I’ve been giving for the last couple years, I get more emails about don’t sell to the unsellable and how it changed a business that was doing two million a year for 14 fucking years and now they’re doing five ’cause they stopped beating their fucking head against things that aren’t gonna happen.
It’s friction. Especially when it goes that old-school, because we’re now into what I call religion. It’s an emotional decision. They don’t understand it, they got four more years into retirement, and I’m not gonna fucking deal with that bullshit. I don’t fucking use, I barely know how to use my phone. Get out of here, you’re gonna fucking make me use this shit. – So target the people that are– – By the time I figured out how to use it, I’ll be slow. You say it’s gonna save me time, no it’s not, I don’t fucking understand how to use this shit. I can give you at all because I live it, I see it. – [Woman] And not just the people who are coming in though because we learn this, it’s the people who can say, “Dad, dumb ass we have to go.” Because if it’s just a kid, they’re not gonna listen to that one kid. – Yeah, and eight out of 10 times they don’t even listen to the smart kid. Back to beating your head. Once I found out Sarah’s in the business, you go and have that meeting and you figure out real quick that Sarah has no say you’re out.
And Sarah has no say eight of 10 times. So like you’re dealing with a very small window. The biggest boys and girls and then family dynamics where you get lucky two out of 10 times. That’s it, that’s your business. Which is great if you actually know that and focus on that, you can build a real business. – And the main platforms you’d say Facebook, LinkedIn? – Facebook will really work for the community. You might want to start a Facebook group of construction companies. I’m very hot on Facebook groups. That’s what Facebook proper is becoming. So starting a group and again, notice where I’m about to go, similar to what I gave you, make it the Northeast Construction Consortium, that’s the name of it. Here’s where we talk about modernizing our industry. See where I’m going? All of a sudden you’re like on a non-profit, not your own business.
And then if you don’t spam them with like oh, the only reason you wanted me in this group is to pitch your shit. They’re gonna find, I’m telling you right now. Bring value they will find you. – [Man] Cause that’s what I don’t wanna do, I don’t want to be like a pushy– – So don’t, so don’t. – [Woman] The people that they’re doing the projects for are the pushy ones. They’re forcing their construction guys to use this app because it’s saving them time, therefore saving them time on projects. – [Man] Right, but I would rather them do that, not be the one that’s you know— – [Woman] So then he gets the people, the projects, the real estate people, the developers, the incentive that hey, this gonna save you time and force your construction guys to use it.
– You can definitely sell through that channel. – [Man] Thank you. – You’re welcome. – Awesome, being in a dual sided marketplace and our audiences are very different in what value props resonate with them. So in thinking about creating content is it creating content for each of these? – [Gary] Both. – Or finding a common thread that can– – No, there’s no common thread between Republicans and Democrats right now. And that’s what you have in a two-way market, drivers of Uber and Uber drivers don’t have a common thread. – [Woman] They came from Uber. – So you know. – And so sorry to get more specific on the business side, someone who’s like an enterprise account like an Aramark or a Sodexo versa caterer have really different needs and the value props resonate really differently with them.
So if we have like 10 of them is it creating different content for each level? – Yes, yes. – [Woman] From everything from long-form through our ad content is going to be different? – Yes, and the way you target the ads and inevitably where some things over resonate. So for example, your Instagram strategy is gonna resonate much more with the caterers because they themselves are trying to market on that platform. Whereas the only place you can get Aramark is on LinkedIn or if you decide to go the route of building the food services number one internal B2B podcast.
And again, this is why this is such a home run, you start the food services podcast literally and you email the Aramark CMO and she’s saying yes. It’s crazy, I can’t, I’m gonna say, this is why I like the high school party analogy because inevitably two out of every three people went to a high school where somebody who wasn’t the most popular kid junior year became the person that hosted the party and became a lot more popular. It’s just something you can understand, like oh my god, that’s right Ricky did that and that’s the same thing as like you can’t get in the door at the number five at some of these conglomerates, but then you email cold on LinkedIn, the number one CEO and their press person or comms person’s like oh yeah, we want him on more podcasts.
And then when it’s a literal Florida, I mean we have a podcast show on the VaynerMedia group called the CMO podcast. Just so CMOS keep running through our doors. So I’m eating the food I’m putting down. – [Woman] Awesome and yeah, there’s not a space that they’re all gathering to have those discussions so we just create that. – You mean in the individual cohorts? – Yeah, or as a group even ’cause event planners and all of that, it’s– – [Gary] That group, but that’s different then– – Exactly.
– Yeah, do not mix them. It won’t work. If you look at the dynamics of groups or forums or communities, it needs to be specific. It’s why so many people are confused by, what they don’t understand what I do with my content where I do garage saleing and wine and entrepreneurship, they think that that’s contradictory to the advice I’m giving, as a human it’s your strength. As a company it’s your weakness. – So I have a family business question. My parents own a whole sale cookie company in Mass.
I showed them your 4Ds where you were talking to someone in real estate and aside from the swearing they were like cool, high school party, cool, like let’s go record softball game or something locally but we don’t have the manpower, blah, blah, blah. We tried eCommerce and it was great for data on like where in the country people like the cookies, but shipping was a problem because the cookies kept breaking.
We get accounts and they’re growing nationally slowly. Penetration in New England and Northeast. So how do we use social media aside from being hyper local, which is a given in New England, but like just to get interest for other people elsewhere so they can ask their stores in Florida– – So Sonic restaurants, which is a client ironically of Vayner, but even if they weren’t this would, I don’t know if you know this, but for years they were only in the South East but they would run commercials in North East.
– [Man] Cool, interesting. – And so this is advice I’m giving you. I’ve always thought that the Sonic move on the QSR level was always the smartest B2B distributor and reselling move. Like you could build up so much demand on Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram in Arizona by making, to prove my point I would make a Diamondbacks cookie, make it up and then only market it in Arizona to Diamondback fans and just literally show, if I was the other son I’d be like watch this and in a 100 days inbound inquiries to carry it. – [Man] So like manifest it– – Manifest through execution. That’s why I said something about The Secret the other day, like fuck The Secret, you know that book? Like you know and people got really mad.
They’re like Gary, manifestation is real. I’m like because you did something behind it. (laughing) Like I also have a goal it’s called buying, are you gonna say that buying the New York Jets was a manifestation? No, yes I said it but it was ’cause I was doing things. So yes manifesting through very tactical, you could even target actual retailers. You guys could thoughtfully sit down and say okay, in Minnesota there’s this great family gourmet chain of 11 locations.
Like if I was a wine producer, just to give a comp, I would try to get to Cappy’s or Martinelli’s in Mass. I tried to get to get to Haskell’s in Minnesota, like you could get real thoughtful. I mean you can get so crazy when you actually make the cookie, Martinelli’s and Cappy’s are two big chains in mass for liquor, you can literally create a cookie called the cap. Market the fuck out of it and then just target ads to employees of Cappy’s and inevitably they’re gonna like holy shit, there’s a fucking cookie called the cap, we have to carry that. I mean it’s it’s so scary what I know, I can do anything with this model.
What do you want to happen? It’s just reverse engineering. – [Woman] Can you do that for software? – Of course. – [Woman] Help me, how do– – You have to understand you know his is real easy because you’re dealing with a cookie and you’re talking about an environment where the stores ROI is predicated on bringing in new items, kicking out items, things of that nature. Him getting into stores, what I just showed you, I could do crazy uncomfortably. The game that we’d have to play is retention. The game where I’d have to really help him is retention, because if I looked under the hood his economics might not even be that attractive in opening an account that then kicks out the product after 90 days. – [Man] Need about six or seven accounts to make a region worth it in our space.
– Now the good news is back to that, I think I could get him 12 ’cause then I lose six and that’s what I would do. I’d like all right, we need in order the 12 fucking mom and pops or one-offs or six store units or da, da, da. Software’s tougher but far more lucrative, that’s why they’re big businesses. You know you’ve got to get in, once you get in it’s hard to get out of even bad software. It takes two, three years which is why we all love building SAS businesses. Getting in is tougher, but what you could do is actually reverse engineer every single business and decision maker. You could actually spend, I think people are so worried about talking that they’re spending no time on listening. Your ability to create, I mean her ability to literally create all 50 agencies that are within driving distance of her home because that’s just smart.
Like why get an account that’s far away? And then literally just stalk AKA do homework on the pain points and words out of the mouth of, like I mean she could possibly and you know this especially being an extrovert, like her business may come from the fact that they’re both Maverick fans. She could make a Luka Doncic reference in a post, I mean that works on me you know so– – [Woman] I was thinking about how can I rename a part of my product to be like Diamondback lately? – You know the thing there is that’s your business where’s like its a skew under his world, so it gets a little trickier, but I think the thesis of reverse engineering your target is again, I don’t think, maybe Nick you might have caught this. There was this great moment four or five years ago, my team, me staying out here, which I do once or twice every couple months, where I basically declared I was gonna get popular in hip-hop and everybody made fun of me made fun of me.
Made fun of me and then I just did it right in their face. (laughing) You can do it if your products good, then you can do anything you just have to understand how the Internet works. So that’s what I would do in that scenario. I’d also really, really, really challenge you to innovate on shipping. You know I think one of the things that I’ve noticed with a lot of food products is that they were half pregnant with their execution on E-comm and it’s so imperative for the growth of their business long term that putting some money and more importantly heart and head behind actually trying to solve it, instead of being like.
And family businesses love to do this. – [Man] Yeah, they do that a lot. – Yes they do and I think that is super important, because much like brokers, retailers take way too much of the action. You don’t want them to have control and you don’t want somebody to come along– – [Man] Especially for a small business one account can handle a large percentage of your– – Scary, scary. – [Man] Cool, thank you. – Let’s keep it going. Let’s go free form, raise your hand.
Go ahead. – So back to our other conversation, with the auto generated content we believe that humans and AI should work in partnership, because as you know marketing is emotions and you buy on emotion– – Couldn’t agree more. – So each of the posts you can edit them and humanize them, right? You can optimize them or whatever. – And do you guys tell them that that is the best practice? – Yes, we do. – Good, keep going. – But we started doing it more because one of the things I have is I have all my interns as soon as someone becomes a customer or even becomes a lead, they connect with them on LinkedIn for me or follow them on Twitter so actually A– – Watch.
– I can see that they were pushing the button and letting the content rip and if you put garbage in, it’s garbage out, right? – 100%. – And I was like ugh guys, this just basic 101 grammar sometimes. – We believe in it so much, we don’t automate anything. Even though we think that that’s inefficient and should, but I’ve been so passionate to build the religion of context, not automated scale that if I did it now now the company would be thoughtful about it. If I did it first it’d be like everybody else in the world and 99% of your clients and we just met with Facebook, 99% of what celebrities do like everybody wants automation. Nobody actually wants to build a meaningful relationship, they just want the likes and the sales. – [Woman] It’s true. – I’m aware. – [Woman] I do have a secret. – Go ahead. – [Woman] Which is your team is using you. – Phenomenal and I’m sure like we hack with stuff, but like the fact that like I don’t even know that is the punch line, right? – So the point is, is that I saw them doing this and then people actually started asking me too like how do we optimize it? And so we do open office hours every week for the public.
Anybody can come and for half an hour we go through features and we talk marketing and blah, blah, blah. So I was like you know what, once a month I’m just gonna get on and I’m gonna auto-generate somebody’s blog, they can volunteer or I can just grab somebody and I’m gonna go in and optimize each single post and show them the trick to it. And so we do it, it’s great, everybody’s– – Yay, yep. – And so we were trying to figure out how can we improve that? So right now, this ties in to the podcast question, this is a very visual thing, right? And it takes time, you need to screen, it’s my time commitment, I can’t really reproduce it, I can’t even really– – Well you can lay your services on top of it.
– So we have an inkling idea of this, tell me about this. – I think you should tell the world that it would be far more effective for them to pay an extra $5,000 a month for post-production before they post than just hitting the post. Sanan, who on our team is using this product? I wanna get the insight. – [Sanan] May and Leshawn. – Cool. Let’s find Rogoff I want to just hear him talk for a second. You know? I think you would be stunned if you went with this approach and I understand why you wouldn’t. – [Woman] I want to. – Hey, I know, let me give you the pitch. Hey, how much is your product? – [Woman] Starts at 50 but as customers– – Understood, so give me the range.
– [Woman] 130,000. – A month or 10,000 a month? – [Woman] 10,000 a month. – Cool. 50 to 10,000, right? Cool. Hey, you can use this at 100 bucks a month and we’re very proud of the product. If you pay an extra thousand a month that hundred a month actually works like 2,000 instead of the 100 working like 30. I genuinely believe that to be true. How are using this tool? – Well, a couple ways, we’re doing scheduling. – That’s okay. – Scheduling’s a big one on LinkedIn just ’cause we can’t natively schedule on LinkedIn. – Right. – It also allows you to take transcripts from videos that we have and it pulls out quotes that will potentially perform off the platform.
So we’ll take like a video that we put on YouTube, we’ll run it through the platform, we’ll pull out like 10 quotes, and we’ll schedule ’em out over the next five days. – Understood and how’d you find it? – It was– – Do you remember? – I think we posted something on LinkedIn– – Do you know the story? – [Woman] I do, yeah. – What was it? – [Woman] You clicked the thing on LinkedIn that said oh, I wish there was an AI tool that would create 30 or 40 posts from content and I was like– – Yay, awesome, thank you. – They got so many shout outs. I’m sure, awesome, thank you. – We actually engineered some of the shout outs too. (laughing) – I think you just roll with that. I think you make that part of the sales pitch. If nothing, first of all– – [Woman] Can you say it again real quick? – Yeah, yeah. Hey, super excited you’re checking us out.
So look based on the way you look like you’re gonna do it, I think you’re gonna be 300 bucks a month. Just FYI we have a creative services overlay, which does the post-production that is actually the variable of success. Our tool gets you to third and a half base, but the human created variable from third and a half base to home plate is so much more significant. Now this may sound weird, even though you’re only paying 250 a month, our service for our creatives and our strategist and our copywriters is a thousand a month in addition. We’re thrilled to have you at 250 and we think there’s nothing that competes for 250 in the market.
However, just on the record, whether you do it and we don’t do it for a thousand or you pay us to do it for a thousand at 1,250 intuitively I feel like you’re getting $2,500 worth of value verses, excuse me, at 1,000 you’re getting $2,500 worth of value or excuse me, at 1,250, I had to rate the percent. You’re getting $2,500 of value. At 250 bucks we think you’re getting $350 worth of value. So if you can afford it you can imagine how that amortizes or you still pay us 250, but you better hire somebody and pay them 40,000 a year to post produce everything ’cause you can’t imagine the delta, here’s three fucking versions of me doing it by hand, that’s the pitch. – [Woman] Is this all recorded? – Yep. (laughing) – [Woman] Awesome. – That’s the pitch. – [Woman] That’s super money, thank you so much. – You got it, it will work, here’s why. 25% will hire you for it and you’ll start building a VaynerMedia on top of it. It won’t be as efficient as a SAS business, but it’ll bring up your ROI and it’s gonna work better, it’s gonna help your LTV.
20%, 20% are gonna do it internally in a way they wouldn’t have done it if you sold it differently. They’ll do it right, which is 40% more than you have now. – [Woman] Winning. – And again, back to the specific industry, it’s still very like a high-touch of a lot of visits, and meeting and handshakes and like how can we break into it and layer in more digital content to alleviate some of our sales reps from having to have so many face-to-face meetings? – I think that won’t, unless you get people to communicate via text or screen times or things, you won’t eliminate it.
I think what content will do is make your funnel much bigger. – Okay, we do all of our support via text and we have it on 24/7 so we’re the ones responding to any inquiry that’s– – So now you’re talking more about the DNA of the sales team? – [Woman] Yeah. – It goes back to the construction guys. It’s getting them to push for more scalable communication. Some of them are most naturally comfortable in face-to-face. There’s many salespeople who subconsciously, subconsciously think going to meetings is justifying their being. – I mean a lot of times it’s their KPIs, right? It’s like how many meetings and phone calls they have. So adjusting those to be aligned with– – Yeah, it’s so funny a lot of my biggest clients are like Gary, you know I get it but my team doesn’t. We believe in this and I’m like change the KPIs.
If you believe in it and you’re the CEO, Sally, make the bonuses predicated on your marketing people to spend 25% of Facebook. I have a funny feeling if their personal bonus is tied to a requirement of spending 25% of the money on Facebook, like it’s unbelievable watching leaders push the envelope on their employees, to your point, which I’m glad you picked up on so quickly. Change the KPIs. It’s so fun to like, companies that bonus, we don’t really do that here, but you have full control. Can make people do whatever the fuck you want. – [Woman] You guys don’t do bonuses here? – We have a couple of different things in place for like the heads of the offices and some of the Vayner, I think the Sasha group is taking a different approach with James ’cause he comes from that ecosystem.
I’m letting him do that with these guys, so like we’re starting to have some, but bonuses scare me as a macro because I’m worried about a disconnect. I’m worried about Nick and I, him being on a arbitrary bonus, I mean some things are black and white, but even that scares me because if you’re doing it just completely on a financial KPI, people’s behaviors become so erratic and often don’t map to the culture or the gray or the long term that I’m trying to build so it’s inherently against it. And then the only other way to do it for me is subjective, but then he’s walking in thinking he should get 22K in bonus and I’m thinking 13 and that’s fine ’cause that’s not super big apart, but literally I just had somebody and this is a raise cycle.
They’re walking in, they think they deserve $100,000 raise and I think they deserve a $5,000 raise and that’s real. That literally just happened and I’m like that’s gonna be tricky. I’m like yeah, I’ll get back to you fucking like. (laughing) I don’t know where I’m, literally walked out like oh man, I got a lot of thinking to do. What’s gonna happen here? So you know. – [Woman] We don’t give bonuses either, but that’s because we haven’t been able to afford to in the budget. – I get it. – But it also seems to be working, so I have of course a tons investors were like what the hell, why don’t you have a bonus system for your sales team? I’m like we need (mumbles) – Yeah I mean investors are Excel sheet, Goldman Sachs, business school junkies. They just think it’s right. It actually leads to incredibly bad human behavior. It just leads to, people have to live and they have factored in the max of their bonus. First of all, people don’t know how to save money. Like if you have an employee who literally has an arbitrary bonus between 15 and 50,000, she’s living with the 50,000 in mind.
Then it comes and you give her 26 ’cause you had a bad year or she was just okay. She’s like fuck. She’s like I have, my credit card bill’s not getting paid off, like it’s just crazy. People don’t factor real into theory. I always go here when I get in this mindset. I always implore people to read Marxism and communism on paper. It sounds remarkable. Every person at VaynerMedia would love it. It’s extremely socially liberal. It just isn’t inherently human. Some things are better on paper. And business became one to one-dimensional and finally I see some of the tide turning. Starting to have EQ and gray conversations, but in the rise of finance and startup it was run by an old boys club of Harvard Business School told me this, see ya.
Just not my thing. – On the investor side we do some specific marketing to investors. – Smart. – I was going to ask if you thought that was a viable strategy or– – It is the strategy. I couldn’t be more bullish on that for somebody who’s raising capital. Always be putting out content to raise capital so that when you have to raise capital you’re on third base not fucking, the dugout. Super bullish on it. – We actually took our investors emails and integrate them through Facebook as paid ads. – I actually think the other thing you guys could be doing is already marketing for the exit. – [Woman] Oh yeah. – Like here’s why, here’s why. You know it’s never the wrong time to take somebody grossly overpaying. Like I’ve always said everybody this is never for sale and if it’s for sale, quit.
But inherently there’s always a 1% chance in my head I’m like well if Disney realizes this creative machine and they offer me three billion dollars tomorrow, it’s a wrap ’cause it’s just too much. There’s nothing I can like, you know, I would trick Disney into thinking nobody’s gonna quit and a lot of people would probably quit ’cause I’ve been telling ’em to quit. But I’d fucking figure it out because it’s too big of a number and it’s just, the Million Dollar Man’s right, everybody’s got a price. So like marketing now for the exit is also a good idea. – [Woman] I can’t imagine that, can you– – Having a good understanding of who might want to buy you and then making content about you in a way that lends them to start putting seeds to why they should buy you.
Running an article, running a piece of creative that is titled Why Food Service Companies Should Own All Their Internal Tech. And then subconsciously like, humans are funny. They’re real funny. The CFO of a board all of a sudden goes, we should have our own internal tech. Who do we use? Quick, let’s buy them. (woman laughing) That’s what happens. – [Woman] Yeah, it’s true. – So the building in New Jersey I’m redeveloping and I think Cosi in there is food services. Construction is supposed to be done in the beginning of 2019. They’re going to move in February of oh, excuse me, 2020. How would go about marketing, like I want, basically the buildings half-full so about 70,000 square feet of leasing to do. – Central Jers? – Yeah. – And are you trying to think about the notion of how do you market to the other businesses using Cosi as like a gateway drug to them considering it? – Well I just kind of wanted to get the word out there because there’s no food services in the area.
I mean, there’s no downtown, people in the building bring their lunches actually into the office and I have some jankie grab and go vending machines that I took out of there and now– – You think it’s a value prop and might be the reason somebody considers to move. – Exactly. – Look I would pound and I mean pound the 20-mile radius of your company or this location on LinkedIn. I would pound the living shit out of it.
But one more time because I want to give you good advice and actually now I remember what you answered. You still believe it’s basically a localized transfer, this is not somebody going from Trenton to here? It’s not Bergen County to there? It’s not Ohio to there? It is within that radius is what your intuition is? – [Man] Yeah. – I would probably run two cohorts of ads about the project on LinkedIn against business owners within a 15-mile radius and then a separate one, business owners in New Jersey to get the same thing that his family cookie business found out by having E-comm, which is like wait a minute, there’s random demand in Denver. I think just running the ads might give you some insight and then please? – [Man] What was the second one again? – All of Jersey and again, you’ve got Nick and others here, Maribel, like they’ll help you kind of like tie some of these ribbons up that I’m putting down. Like what did he mean by that or how do I actually do that, or on a follow up call like we want to bring value, but that’s what I would do.
LinkedIn ads are expensive ’cause there’s a floor, it starts at $2 CPMs instead of five cents like Facebook or 10 cents like, but it’s very high-quality. And organic without paid will work, but when you post that hey, the premiere central Jersey office space is here now with, you know even if you made it a commercial, if you post that organic, if you made a page for that building or even on your organic LinkedIn that could hit somebody in Florida. The reason you pay for the ads is you get to get narrow. I want you to do broad content because it’s just always a good idea. It could lead to a million different things. Let me give an example, it could lead to a third generation family that doesn’t have a succession plan in a real estate empire saying this kid seems smart and he comes from a pedigree of multi-generational developers. I’m gonna reach out to him and see if he wants to operate my business since I have nobody to give it to. Like it could lead to that.
Do you see where I’m going? That’s why content done right always is a good idea. It leads the things you’re not even thinking about. You saying something thoughtful in a video that was built to get people in Dallas area to work with you may lead to somebody in Oregon reaching out to you and saying don’t do that, we thought that was brilliant, why don’t you become the back-end infrastructure for us and you’re like I did that, I don’t want to do that, and they’re like but we’ll do this and you’re like well that makes it financially worth my time. What I like about the content is it creates you to be open to things you might have not even thought of. That’s the brilliance of a volume creative model. the reason I’m smart and have all these insights is ’cause I’ve created a content machine that led to me listening. It looks like I’m talking, it led to me listening. – [Man] That’s crazy. – It is crazy. – [Man] You should tweet that. – It’s a good one, I made sure Dustin caught it.
(laughing) All the talking has led to a level of listening that gives me such profound consumer insights. – [Woman] I have another question. – Go. – [Woman] So Nick was telling us a little bit last night about how you guys stopped your strategy of wasting time on annoying customers– – [Man] RFP’s over inbound. – [Woman] Yeah, which I like. Of course I love firing my customers, but you know we’re still trying to figure out our funnel. – Of course. – [Woman] I’m still young enough that every customer counts almost– – No, no, that’s right. – [Woman] I actually abandoned a couple people to upgrade, but anyways, so there’s a lot of theories about how many calls meaning touches or emails, whatever it is, social touches that it takes to get a customer. It’s 12, 14, like so if I had these leads and they’re qualified, they’re pre-qualified, like taking that metaphor into consideration like really how much time do I want my people trying to reach somebody or trying to convince somebody, all we know that if we give you a demo I have a 50% chance of closing it, closing you all the way.
18%, sorry, I have an 18% chance of actually closing you as a sale and 50% of closing you into trial. So demo is good, I want to get you on the phone and say hey man, look at my thing. But right now I know that it can take like 12 reaches out to get that person. – Because you’re a sales organization right now not a marketing one, which is okay. It’s the story of 99.9% of SAS products. It’s just not what I think the white piece is. – [Woman] It’s funny that you say that because when we market it, it actually happens pretty instantaneously, but it’s the sales that doesn’t so you’re 100% right.
– I’m aware. (laughing) – [Woman] And a good example is on your thing where I commented, every single person who commented back has had a demo this week. – Makes sense. – [Woman] But at the same time I have all these leads that we got from other places and my sales team has and I have names and email addresses and phone numbers, what do I do with those people? Do I just all socially hunt them, I guess that’s what I should do.
Yeah, I answered my question then. – Yep and what you want to do is create one anchor piece of creative that is your show that becomes the catch-all top to everything. If everybody here leaves with a podcast and that is really where I’m going more than the vlog then I’ve won because I really think it will work. Not everybody’s gonna be good at it, but when you do very narrow podcasts you only need a very small group of people listening. This is not about making The #AskGaryVee Show.
You get seven people to listen and two become customers for a lot of you it’s going to be ROI positive. Especially when you’re a mature level and have sales teams, it becomes wildly positive. – [Man] Same with doing an interview on a smaller podcast that might have like 300 views, that’s 300 people like– – I mean it’s all I did. We had a really famous piece of, well famous. We had a piece of content that I, lemme rephrase. There was a piece of content that we made that I liked that just showed all the, it was just all these highlights of me being on different podcasts and YouTube shows and it showed how many views the video had.
107, 92, showing to people like lower, lower. Everyone’s trying to get on Joe Rogan’s Podcast. He doesn’t want you. You know like you’ve got a long way to go before you get there, let’s get on the ones that you can and more importantly let’s host the one, you’re far more likely to host and get somebody way above your skis then you are to get on somebody’s show that’s bigger than you. – [Woman] We’re getting a lot of requests of local entrepreneurship in Arizona, it’s like just starting to grow, which is great from a thought leadership perspective, but it isn’t like towards our industry. That’s still valuable– – Especially if you film it and then post it and target against– – [Woman] We’ll do that now, yeah. – I do more podcasts now than I used to because I’m filming in it’s giving me content.
– [Man] So even for us podcast? – Being on ’em is great too if you record it even if you’re in your office, like I literally record, Dustin will record me on a speakerphone doing a podcast. Everything’s about content. – [Woman] What about discounts? Like driving to drive incentive with like 10%, 15%– – It’s sometimes a good short-term sales mechanism and always a brand detriment. – [Man] How do you deal with bad publicity? What’s the first thing you do? – Address it publicly truthfully including if I was wrong.
It’s the only move, there is no other move. – [Man] There’s no laying low? – No, yeah there is, there is actually that’s absolutely true, going into hibernation, and waiting for the news cycle to end is an option, but unlike 1949 or 2000 for that matter it lives on the Internet in perpetuity and more importantly here’s the key of making a mistake. Even if you’re like on the scummy side of a mistake, America will reward you for the I’m sorry and then you can just move forward. Like you’re such a young kid without knowing anything of why you’re asking that question, without knowing anything just going all, like this is crazy. I said this the other day to somebody. I believe that saying I’m sorry is so revered in our society that sometimes and this is not a joke, I think about doing something on purpose that’s bad to just say I’m sorry because I think net-net, it would be better.
– [Woman] It’s true, I trained all my customer service team, which is two people, to always say I’m sorry no matter what happens. The first thing that comes out of every email and their mouth, I’m so sorry you had this tough experience or whatever. – Yeah, and then to that point of like going from smart tactic to deep intent is everything. There was something, somebody made a mistake here very senior with another employee who’s not here anymore, got a little ugly. The person said they were sorry in a nice way and I was like okay and now in a month I want you to do something that makes them really know you’re sorry.
So I want you to watch everything they’re about and whether it’s for their daughter or for them or donation to a charity or giving a thousand bucks to a GoFundMe of their friend’s house that burned down, now show them. It really, look, for somebodies who so good at scale, pizzazz, sizzle, all this, it’s about the stake, it’s about the long-term, it’s about the truth. It really works so to answer your question, especially if you’re going through it somewhat, laying low is cool because it allows you not to confront and you get away with some short-term ROI, but it’s always there. Saying you’re sorry and taking a little bit more of a beating lets you go fast for the next 80 years. – [Man] But say you had like zero cope ability and whatever. – This will help you, cope ability as like the ability to cope with it? The judgment? – Yes, if something happened and say you’re getting blamed for someone else doing something.
– Then you address that truth even if you don’t want to call that person out by name, if it’s the truth and it’s not the excuse you came up with for convenience for yourself, which many people do in that same scenario, if it’s a 100% the truth then you come out and you reply in video form where there’s no confusion in written form and you post that truth. If it’s 70% true and 30% is the convenient of how one wants to not take on accountability, you need to come out with the energy of 70 and 30.
– [Man] Yeah, great. (laughing) – And then if it’s completely, I thought you were going in a different place, I was hoping you were so I’ll say it anyway ’cause it’s super interesting to me. I’ve been thinking a lot about this. Practice of losing and saying you’re sorry is an incredibly powerful game. We are in such a judgment society right now. A complete lack of interest of accountability and a complete interest in blaming others that the people that practice I’m sorry and accepting their losses are going to become monstrous.
Okay, go ahead sneak it in. – Well, nah it’s all good. – Go ahead, go ahead. – So I’m working on this brand that you can only purchase clothing, you can only purchase it in New York, but I’m trying to target people who are traveling to New York. – But you can only physically buy it here? – [Man] You can physically buy it here. – I think the number one tactic is community management on Twitter, searching 500 different key terms that are indicators that they’re gonna be here, because once they’re here it’s hard. You need to win them the day before. – [Man] Exactly. So okay. – Got it? – [Man] Yep. – Like literally 500 terms on search locked in, going to New York, trip to New York, my vacation, you know? – [Man] Awesome, thank you. (man whispers) – That’s really nice, thank you brother. Thank you. – You can target people who actually– – [Woman] Thank you so much.
– You’re welcome, thanks guys. I’ll see you guys later. – [Man] Thanks Gary. – Thanks. Hey. Hi. – [Woman] Can I grab you for a few minutes? – [Gary] Yes, yes. – [Woman] Three quick question for you. – Where am I going?.
