Stop Wasting Time and Start Building a Business

Our reading notes on Gary Vaynerchuk

• How to Turn Views on Social Media into Customers for Your Business

  Vaynerchuk describes using organic video to identify promising creative, then pairing it with a clear offer when it reaches people again. A well-watched demonstration supplies a candidate for an ad. Whether people understood what was for sale remains a separate question that a customer conversation or a purchase can help answer.

• 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?