Thursday, April 23, 2009

Wow, Gary...wow.

A Man After My Own Heart, Gary Vaynerchuck!
Googling Gary Vanerchuck's name led me straight to his website.
I watched his vlog addressing Dominoes and how other chains are going to be afraid to put things online and use social media. After watching it, all I could think was 'this guy is an absolute genius'.
I didn't even have to watch or look at the rest of his website to know it! The way he was saying that it's fine if they don't get it, the people that do can use it to their advantage is exactly the way everyone should be viewing it! Finally, a man who says exactly what's on his mind!
Working on building his family's local business into a "national industry leader", he uses things like Twitter, Tumblr, and Cork'd to spread his business.
He's made guest appearances on Conan O'Brian, The Today Show, Ellen Degeneres, and others. So this guy obviously knows how to market himself out there in the televsion market and not just the internet.

Everyone is using the internet more to find sources and businesses and better, more efficient ways of living and he's one of the best examples of a gate jumper that we have. Seeing the way he uses social media to his advantage makes me believe that GenY will maybe eliminate gatekeepers altogether because we're the ones creating the new technology and making new things popular...but we'll see though.

'Ze Brazen Careerist!...(I would really enjoy knowing how this came to be the title for the website...)

Okay, so I didn't really know anything about Brazen Careerist so I checked out the "About" section of the website. And this is what I found:
*It's a place for GenY people to get together and talk about everything about jobs and future careers. Not just the three piece suit people telling us what to do for jobs or how to it.
Brazen Careerist has company profiles and corporate bloggers, making it easier for everyone to have access to companies and what they're looking for.
There's a job board that shows: the job's title, the location for the job, the company that's posting it, and when the job was last posted. This website literally has everything for anyone looking for a potential career. The other extremely nice thing about having this job board is the hyperlinks they have that can take you straight to the full description of what they're looking for.
Blogs are posted on the website also, discussing all different topics, some called "What I Want vs. What I Want," and "Big Kids Do Cry and Sometimes It's at Work".
This place even has coaches in order to help every individual figure out what steps they should take in their career.
I can see vlogs being posted now for live webchat Q&A. Maybe evolving into more than that.

The only thing that I can see Gary Vaynerchuck and Brazen Careerist have in common is that they are using social media to their full advantage. They're aware of how beneficial the internet is to help and inform someone.

Here's an interview about what it's like with Brazen Careerist and being a GenY entrepranuer.
(I like how the first related link is a Gary Vaynerchuck video...)


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