How to Biz Dev Through Instagram's Direct Messages
The GaryVee Audio Experience
Gary Vaynerchuk
4.8 • 18.3K Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2017
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
This is one of my favorite moments of this past year. A simple but tactical piece of advice that SO MANY of you should be taken advantage of. You know how crazy it is that you can just "DM" someone on Instagram and get their attention? If Macho Man Randy Savage had an Instagram account back in the day and I knew that if I just hit him up enough times I might just get his attention, I would be ALL over it. We live in a world where we can essentially get to anybody we want to. For all of you who have a small business or who are looking to bring on new clients or contact influencers to help spread your message, it's all in the palm of your hand .. Start taking advantage of the tools we have and start making sh*t happen !!
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| 0:00.0 | Hustling 24-7 on the Instagram DM. It is the 2017 opportunity. |
| 0:15.2 | Okay, so here's my haircut with Manny. Manny, how long have you been coming here now? Two years, you think? Three? |
| 0:22.8 | Two. |
| 0:24.9 | He's still going to another place where Manny worked and had a bunch of different guys that would come |
| 0:29.3 | out here but Manny cut it one time. I liked that extra short. It was just perfect. So that's |
| 0:34.2 | what I've been going with. So Manny shoot the shit. Last couple of times I've been quiet at the |
| 0:38.9 | haircut. I've just been so focused. But in the, in the ever-never ending quest to pump out seven days |
| 0:47.0 | a week, going to hacks. I think, you know, barber shop talk. So last, uh, |
| 0:53.9 | dear, that was pretty good how we did the Sunday week ahead look, right? So let's do that. |
| 0:58.9 | Another thing I want to talk about. I want to edit the Ask Gary V show where I told the guy who |
| 1:04.5 | was building small business websites how to go into search, how to search the hashtags, how to go |
| 1:09.9 | to DM. I mean, it is, you know, a lot of people like to talk about how it's going down in the DM on |
| 1:14.7 | Instagram. And I know that's for, you know, hooking up and Netflix and chill and all that. But it's |
| 1:20.6 | also going down for business development. And so I'm going to talk about thank you so much. |
| 1:26.7 | It's your new email. To me, it's where people could be doing so much business damage. And I'll |
| 1:31.4 | talk about that in one second while I give you the quick review of the week ahead. So tomorrow, |
| 1:37.0 | big MLK day. I'm taking, I'm going to the next game, taking one of the kids. And then I've got a |
| 1:44.5 | meeting with Kelly, Kelly McCarthy, who was my right hand along with AJ and building VaynerMedia |
| 1:51.6 | in the early days now killing it at Nike. And then just some family stuff and some phone calls with |
| 1:57.2 | Brandon from Wine Library Tuesday, early morning basketball, 6 a.m. Meeting with a former client at |
| 2:03.1 | 830. Another client meeting at 9. Another client meeting at 1030. And then a live webinar for something. |
| 2:09.9 | Then a couple internal meetings for nonprofit stuff. Then this Russ's manager. A little face time |
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