We all know Gary Vaynerchuk. The famous wine (video-) blogger and owner of Wine Library. He is a perfect example of being passionate about what he is doing: He calls himself a “Social Media Sommelier“. In his keynote-talk at O’Reilly Web2.0 Expo he not only talked about the relation between passion and success, but he did that with so much passion, that you have to see yourself.
One of my favorite quotes:
“Way to many People are doing stuff, they hate. Please stop doing that. there is no reason in 2008 to do shit you hate. None. promise me you won’t!” (Gary Vaynerchuk, 2008 O’Reilly Web2.0 Expo)
Watch the video here:
Gary Vaynerchuk is talking about “Building Personal Brand Within the Social Media Landscape“. With over 450 daily wine shows with an audience of at least 80.000 every day he successfully transformed his parents wine-merchant family business in New Jersey from a 4.5 millions to a 60m-a-year enterprise. He uses a lot of web2.0 / social media to promote his brand and to get/stay in touch with his audience/clients: facebook, twitter, pownce, linkedin, viddler, myspace…
What do you think about his approach? Do you have other examples of inspiring, charismatic people who love what they are doing, putting all their passion into it?
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