GaryVee
Everything GaryVee personally uses, recommends, or has created — plus things they don't recommend — sourced from their own show and appearances on other podcasts.
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Personal use in 3 episodes
"Now with Claude and ChatGPT and Gemini and Grok, my research — I mean I can't even comprehend how much I've learned in the last year about building an intellectual property that would have taken me 800 hours that took me eight."
▶ 15:32"I know I've not looked up one thing on Google. Not one. I've used Gemini, Google's AI, but I've not done Google search in the way that we all grew up in literally almost the entire year."
"I've used Gemini Google's AI but I've not done Google search in the way that we all grew up in literally almost the entire year."
Personal use in 2 episodes
"I started a TikTok account called You're Somebody Now as the name of the handle, @yoursomebodynow. The first post I posted on that account with zero followers was a slight edit on the video that did well for me... That video with zero followers got 8.2 million organic views."
▶ 1:39"I have 15 million followers on TikTok, right? My latest post on TikTok right there has 25,000 views, right? You see it? Now, I'm starting a new account where I'm just going around TikTok and I'm replying to people."
Personal use in 2 episodes
"I built my dad's liquor store from 3 to 65 million in revenue on email and Google Adwords. The day Google Adwords came out, I bought every wine term you could ever imagine."
▶ 16:34"Google AdWords, a day came out, I bought every wine term. They were five cents a click for the first six to 12 months."
Personal use in 1 episode
"There's Substack, which I'm obsessed with. I think it's becoming more like Twitter and Instagram."
▶ 4:35Warned against
"Do you or do you like what the brand does to make you look to other people? I know in the macro that 98% of people that buy a Mercedes or BMW likes what it makes other people think of them, not that they like it."
"This thing, it's going to be looked upon like an eight track very, very shortly. RIM, the company that brings us the BlackBerry, I'm predicting that they are going to be on the verge of bankruptcy or maybe even sold."
"you want to lay on your couch and bet 14 parlays on Fanatics betting app and smoke a blunt? Like, cool. But like, you're not gonna be the emperor of the world."
"Google AdWords as we sit right now is in the same place that the yellow pages were in 2001. You might still be getting business from it, but it is declining rapidly."
"If you complain about not having money and you're taking Uber four times a day, you're fucked up."
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"I did not grow up being the social media guy. I was the direct mail, newspaper, Google AdWords, email marketing guy."
"The key here is to leave this conference understanding that you have to put in the work. Put in the work to actually be good at the craft. Not everybody in this hall, in this conference, should be making videos on the internet."
"Google AdWords, as we sit right now, is in the same place that the Yellow Pages were in 2001. You might still be getting business from it, but it is declining rapidly, it is getting more expensive."
"Google AdWords as we sit right now is in the same place that the yellow pages were in 2001. You might still be getting business from it, but it is declining rapidly."
Mentioned in 7 episodes
"All you have to do is make organic social media content over and over and over again in as many different ways as possible across Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube Shorts, LinkedIn, different thumbnails, different hooks, complete insane psycho discipline."
"Not just Instagram and TikTok."
"You can post on TikTok today with zero followers on a new handle you make up called Janet in Atlanta."
"You can post on TikTok today with zero followers on a new handle you make up called Janet in Atlanta and that post with zero followers that you created today if you make a good piece of content has the ability to get more views than me with 15 million followers on TikTok."
"What does TikTok want? What does Shorts want? What does Facebook want? They want you to stay on there as long as humanly possible."
"There are literally everyday people who are becoming TikTok affiliates and selling on live shopping and changing their lives."
"There are literally everyday people who are becoming TikTok affiliates and selling on live shopping and changing their lives."
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"I was very fascinated when I invested in Tumblr because I thought Tumblr was different in 2008. You follow like art or like music, you don't follow people. And that was a foreign concept."
"What first fascinated me about Tumblr — I was a very early investor in Tumblr back in 2007."
"For all the OGs in the room, it was originally done by Tumblr years ago. I was an early investor in Tumblr and I thought it was going to be bigger than Facebook and Twitter."
"I was an early investor in Tumblr. I called my brother after I invested in. I said, 'Bro, I just invested in a company that's going to be bigger than Facebook and Twitter combined.'"
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"I was also a very loud advocate for Musical.ly when it looked like it was just 13 and 14 year old girls dancing. Musical.ly was giving you content in a different way."
Mentioned in 1 episode
"I think coins are about to explode. They've been an old man's game. I can see because of what's on TikTok — youth culture's coming in. So what I saw in trading cards in 2017, I think is about to happen in coins. Maybe you know something about coins. I think you should go buy some good ones. I think they're going to 10x."
Mentioned in 1 episode
"My dad would lose his mind out of happiness right now if 50 people an hour walked into Wine Library, even if none of them were going to buy wine or liquor, because the reality is just like live shopping in your FYP on TikTok, somebody might not have been thinking about buying wine or liquor today but they end up buying."
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"Whatnot's amazing, eBay's amazing, but what TikTok does is give you random audience. That's a big deal."
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"SMS marketing is working extremely well and this is clearly an incredible channel to figure out how to penetrate."
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"QVC and HSN still do staggering numbers. Staggering. On cable."
Mentioned in 6 episodes
"Very important YouTube Shorts because Gemini is going to be one of the biggest AI agents and it's getting its content from YouTube Shorts."
"YouTube Shorts because it is feeding Gemini's LLM and will show up in AEO and GEO for every business unit here."
"The content you put out on YouTube Shorts is feeding the Gemini LLM, which is going to allow your product to show up when people type in, I need a healthy beef jerky."
"Gemini is Google's AI. Gemini is going to be a very major player in AI. The way someone's going to show up of who should I follow for fashion advice when they type into Gemini"
"how many people in this room now will go to ChatGPT or some other or Gemini and AI to look up something that only 18 months ago they would go to Google search for."
"Go do three to five hours of research with ChatGPT or Google Gemini or Perplexity or whatever your choice is."
Mentioned in 5 episodes
"If Rips needed a house and I had to buy him one, I'm going to ChatGPT and saying, 'Who's the best real estate agent in Atlanta?' Whatever shows up, shows up."
"All the great things you know, AI is commoditizing in your face. Zoning, inspections, and everything you bring to the table — I'm like, 'ChatGPT is better than you.'"
"how many people in this room now will go to ChatGPT or some other or Gemini and AI to look up something that only 18 months ago they would go to Google search for."
"If AI wins the next three to five years and most of us are going to ChatGPT or something like it instead of Google, it's just what Google did to the yellow pages"
"How many people here have used ChatGPT or an AI thing?"
Mentioned in 5 episodes
"LinkedIn, Twitter, Substack want to keep all of us on their platform for as long as humanly possible. When we make content creative that is actually relevant and conducive to the platform, that creative has a high propensity to reach that audience."
"You think I'm happy that Substack came out? I had this figured out 20 years ago when it was email and search. I'm not happy that social came along. I hate when new platforms come and I have to spend 400 hours of research to get good at it."
"There's the written game, you know, the whole Substack Beehive game."
"There are people that are going to explode on YouTube, Substack, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat"
"There are people that are going to explode on YouTube, Substack, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat, and every other platform that are literally going to start tomorrow because they have figured out something of value that the end consumer is interested in."
Mentioned in 3 episodes
"That algorithm from LinkedIn to Snapchat Spotlight to Twitter X to Facebook and Instagram and TikTok and YouTube and YouTube Shorts — all of them over the last four years those algos have been written more and more towards relevance."
"There are people that are going to explode on YouTube, Substack, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat"
"There are people that are going to explode on YouTube, Substack, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat, and every other platform that are literally going to start tomorrow because they have figured out something of value that the end consumer is interested in."
Mentioned in 2 episodes
"In my company, the number two person after me is Claude Silver. She is the chief heart officer."
"Whether it's Claude or OpenAI or Perplex whatever it might be."
Mentioned in 3 episodes
"have people that you went to high school with come to your liquor store look you dead in the face as they pulled up in their BMW"
"Why do you own a BMW? Do you or do you like what the brand does to make you look to other people? I know in the macro that 98% of people that buy a Mercedes or BMW likes what it makes other people think of them, not that they like it."
"Do you or do you like what the brand does to make you look to other people? I know in the macro that 98% of people that buy a Mercedes or BMW likes what it makes other people think of them, not that they like it."
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"The big business idea that's out there right now is the QVC Home Shopping Network internet play."
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"Things like Commission Junction and all these things out there have nothing but affiliate links left and right."
Mentioned in 3 episodes
"The big business idea that's out there right now is the QVC Home Shopping Network internet play."
"You might be better at the QVC part than the content stuff."
"live shopping, QVC on social media is going to go"
Mentioned in 2 episodes
"Let them still pay for your Uber cuz it's on their credit card."
"If you complain about not having money and you're taking Uber four times a day, you're fucked up."
Mentioned in 1 episode
"Good job, Netflix. Even though they shut that shit down."
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