Untraditional Gate Jumping!!

Gary Vaynerchuck is the man behind wine television. As a man who worked in a liquor store for about seven years, he has become somewhat of a wine enthusiast. I did some research into some of his strategies and they gave me mixed feelings on who this guy was and what he really was into and selling. Gary is such a normal guy that you have to wonder what it actually takes to invest into such a business such as wine tasting. First of all you have to wonder what makes this guy tick.





In his Youtube video web 2.0 out of Manhattan New York he goes on and on about how he made himself into a successful business man through hussling. I don’t want you to think that I don’t like this guy because I actually respect him a lot. I see a lot of me in him. When I want something so badly I go after it regardless of the end result. The way Gary worked long hours and then went home after all of that and started working on his own future projects really sounded like my life. Gary explained that if you have an idea to sell than you have work it no matter what it is. Any dream is possible and Gary is life proof of such things. I like how he gets straight to the point when motivational speaking to large audiences. Gary won’t sugar coat what you need to do to get what you want. He makes sure you know that no dream will just fall into your lap. You gotta work for it and it’ll work for you.
The way that Gary has gotten into all of these business acquisitions is definitely not on the normal end of things. He has used untraditional media to reach his target audience. He relied on only free services such as Facebook, Myspace, Youtube, Twitter and a blogger that he kept up regularly. These are considered gatejumping tactics.




Brazen Careerist Bloggers are another form of blogging. The real reason they are out there is for coworkers to get to know one another and to give future employers a way to get to know their possible future employee. It is a very personable way to get to know one another. It is really geared toward helping Generation Y people bridge the large gap in between high school, college and any other kind of gap that is trying to be crossed into the large and “scary” professional world. I really think this is an awesome service to include into your resume. It can never hurt to have too much media on your side to get your name out there.

Free media is revolutionary as far as posting anything and everything. The world is so big, but in reality it is shrinking. We are becoming so intertwined with everyone on this planet that marketing has become so very easy. Ideas such as wine video blogging is taking off. The world is our playground and we need to figure out just how to play on it.

Social Whut?

Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, blogs, and endless other social media networks are just the norm these days. We use them for all kinds of reasons ranging from networking to just keeping up with your friends of past. We don’t talk on the phone anymore or write letters to each other. Generation Y is changing all previous hardwired thoughts of what a normal person should be involved in. The way yesterday’s people thought is now changing. We are networking in new ways now and we have all the resources to do it at our fingertips.





Social networking is sometimes confused with social media. The difference is that social networking has been around since the dawn of time. You network with different people in order to get things accomplished. The more people you know the bigger your available network can be. This is a great tool in the real world for getting your name out there and also for getting jobs. There is a slight downfall though in the social networking aspect. You have to work really hard to get all your contacts and in the end it might limit you to a smaller audience than what you originally hoped for. The cure for the common social network limitability is a term commonly called social media. You see, social media is very much like social networking but on a much bigger scale. It is a global networking system. Why settle for a small web of contact names when you can branch out into the world and make contacts there also. The point I’m getting at is that you don’t have to work so hard any more to make an almost impossible thing happen. No, you actually can do it all from your computer at home. Companies have set it up so we can literally just sit down in front of our computer and find companies, contacts, advice, and about any other thing you want. You can gather advice from stored media as well as live media with social media as well.

Matt Goddard has explained that all of our new age networking tools has opened up whole new avenues for getting things done. He talked about why it is so important to have these gateways and how it can make our lives so much easier. The most important fact that was mentioned was why reinvent the wheel when it has already been invented for us. Someone in this world has come across the same problems that you and I might be having right at this moment in time. By using social media we can bypass any problems we are having and take another person’s word for it and use their advice to solve a problem. The networking tools we have now a day is so powerful that to not utilize such power would be wasting. Wisdom comes from experience. Why experience a problem when someone else out there has already solved that same problem. Social media has and will continue to bring this crazy world together. It will draw us close and make us work together.

Little Miss Sunshine?

Wow, when I read this article about young pageant girls, the first thing that came to my mind was the movie Little Miss Sunshine. Although they are different in the fact that the news article was saying that these girls were coaxed into this young profession by their parents, Little Miss Sunshine actress Abigail Breslin, showed the world that she wanted to join the pageant life on her own.
The relation I’m trying to make here is that little girls are being pushed into a life of little movie star look a likes. They are being convinced by all the media and all of the outside sources to become more beautiful. Media coverage of all kinds of movie stars and young talent are making girls feel like they need to be prettier and older looking to fit in. The article also tells of how much money parents are shoveling out just to bring security back to these tweens. How much more can we allow from this. Making a little kid unsecure by showing them what they should look like is wrong. We are ruining all hope of letting these little girls grow up on their own pace. Little girls need to be experiencing all that life has for them and their age. There is so much time to “grow up”. These parents are ruining all hope for a normal life with these young people.
There are stages of life explained in Psychology. You just can’t skip all of them and expect normality. I believe strongly that whatever life experiences you have early on, you will definitely mirror what you have been exposed to. If self image is established at such an early age then, the problems of all other young girl problems will be so much worse. Girls have a harder time with insecurity than guys do. Why make it harder on them. Are these parents just trying to give their children something that they never had or wanted? I don’t know. Little Miss Sunshine was my relation to this story for the fact that, here is this perfect little girl who wants nothing more than to win a pageant. She trains for it, attends it, and in the process, loses herself. This early modification of stardom is wrong and should not be done. Parents, stop hurting your kids with this nonsense. It’s messing America up.