Name: Crush it!
ISBN: 9780061914171

Crush it!

Do you have a hobby you wish you could indulge in all day? An obsession that keeps you up at night? Now is the perfect time to take that passion 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 here, transformed his entire life and earning potential by building his personal brand. By the end of this book, readers 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.

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dlienDec 2014

1. Choose Yourself! by James Altucher 2. CRUSH IT! by Gary Vaynerchuk 3. Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done by Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan 4. Let Go by Pat Flynn

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danhodginsDec 2011

Court the traffic gatekeepers who reach your target audience by pitching them via email. In my experience asking a single direct/focused question elicits a response at least 50% of the time.

Inbound link juice from being featured on a site that's old, trusted and authoritative is 90% of the SEO game. Getting traffic is all about courting and pitching traffic gatekeepers at progressive levels of difficulty/reach, so you might as well start refining your approach.

For an inspiring read on growing your traffic check out "Crush It" by Gary Vaynerchuk, and start getting your content and community hustle on!

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wmatAug 2011

First off, if you have daily expenses like rent, food, etc. then you'll need a dayjob. You can choose to return to the SAP ABAP programmer jobs so you can pay your bills, and then work in your free time on your projects. Or, get a day job that complements your projects. Either way you're back into a day job for now. This is how a lot of entrepreneurs seem to do it.

Bottom line is that everything comes down to hustle and execution. Everything you "choose" to do in your free time should move your projects forward somehow.

If you need motivation, you could read a few books that inspire entrepreneurs, like Gary Vaynerchuk's 'Crush It' or Hugh Mcleod's 'Ignore Everybody'.

The thing to remind yourself of is that you are actually at a huge advantage compared to many. You've started and failed. Most people never even try. Use the knowledge you gained from failing to try again.

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nhangenJan 2011

This is exactly why I enjoyed Crush It, by Gary Vaynerchuk. Quick and to the point.

So many business books especially read like a collection of blog posts and filler, rather than providing a real and valuable hypothesis.

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erikstarckMar 2010

True. Gary Vaynerchuk talks about this in Crush It. Health and family should always come first.

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al_borlandJun 2022

Gary Vaynerchuk (GaryVee) wrote Crush It and is pretty synonomous with hustle culture. He loves the grind and promotes that as the way to move up in the world, if people so choose.

I guess people get upset when someone on the internet (that they could easily ignore, just as you have) tells them to work harder.

He's also loves promoting arbitrage plays... so I kind of blame him for the insane secondhand markets on a ton of normal stuff. Everyone is buying up all the stock and trying to flip it for a profit so they can be like GaryVee at garage sales. This does bother me. I went to go buy a new pair of shoes I bought 3 years ago for $90, but no one has them. I looked on eBay and they are going for $600. That's madness. It's not just Gary's fault though, it's the companies that opt for "drops" and hype over scale and actually meeting demand. But that's a whole differnet rabbit hole.

Both people have a lot of fans, but also get a lot of hate from a particular demogrpahic. I assume the majority is indiffernet.

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