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Gary Vaynerchuk vs. Howard Stern

Started by mathewi · 8 months ago

Gary Vaynerchuk of Wine Library TV may have started getting into video and Twitter and other social media to push wine, but he has become a leading proponent of using social-media tools to build your personal brand and sell whatever it is you want to sell (including yourself). In the video cli ... Continue reading »

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  • Gary's wrong. Facebook, Twitter, Myspace.... they aren't strategies. They're simple tools that can be leveraged to fulfill a strategy.

    The classic story of Web 2.0 success has been: 1) scale attention and engagement; 2) back into a business model.

    In this sense you can call Stern the King of All (New) Media.

    He's been using so-called new media tools - user-generated content, microchunking, focusing on the long-tail, ... - for decades (here's a blog post on this http://bit.ly/tFzx ).

    He's aggregated up an insane amount of attention and engagement and has found a business model that doesn't rely on shilling t-shirts (Stern listeners will be familiar with his constant flaming of stars who monetize their audience through the hawking of shirts and other knick-knacks).

    He's killing it.
  • Thanks for the comment, Fraser. Updated the post with your link. You make a pretty good case.
  • Don't listen to the hater!
  • Stern is all about the shock and awe ... this could have been his way to drum up a lot of negative attention. It wouldn't be the first time he's done that ;-)

    ... Scott

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