When you stop asking what they can do for you and start asking how you can help them…

Our reading notes on Gary Vaynerchuk

• Alternative Sports’ Future Rise and What It Means to Everyone

  Vaynerchuk connects the growth of emerging sports to the experience of their earliest fans. The notes name two ways into a league, an individual athlete’s personality and attachment to a team. Those entry points call for different introductions even when they lead to the same match.

• How to Start Creating Content

  Vaynerchuk discusses taking part in smaller shows and collaborating with other creators as ways to begin publishing. A guest appearance can supply a useful exchange that neither participant has to invent alone. Republishing any of it still depends on permission and enough context to preserve the guest’s meaning.

• Why You Need to Forget Your “Mistakes” and Focus on Your Next Thing

  The episode listing describes Vaynerchuk’s conversation with CRWD founder Ryan Chen about paying people to try products, visit a store and give feedback. For someone planning a sampling day, that raises two separate questions. Did someone take the free sample, and did the experience give them a reason to look for the product again?