This is the Gary V. Audio Experience.

Because we're gonna be in charge!

A lot of people try to detrade attention through social media and making a business of it,

so what can be better than to talk to an expert on this subject?

Welcome to this podcast Gary Vaynerchuk.

How are you?

I'm amazing.

How are you?

Good, thanks for having me.

Listen, how does one become an expert on a thing that is still growing

and people still try to figure it out?

I mean social media.

By being a practitioner, you know, there was a day when painting was new,

and the people that became good at it were the ones that were painting.

It's amazing to me how many people have opinions about Facebook or Instagram or LinkedIn

or making videos or doing this kind of podcast and getting people to listen to it.

A whole lot of people with opinions who've never done it.

And so I believe the great way to be great at anything is to be a practitioner.

You know, people ask me all the time, I make the analogy, you know, you can read about push-ups.

But if you want the results that push-ups give you, you have to do the push-ups.

And I just think a lot of people with business, entrepreneurship, and specifically being a social media content creator

or a modern media digital creator, read a lot, talk a lot, pontificate a lot,

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