You Can’t Fool Brother Vaynerchuk

March 17, 2010 By David Burn 4 Comments

Gary Vaynerchuk was prank called at 5:00 am while in Austin for SXSW. Listen to how he handles it. The dude is quick.

Vaynerchuk says, “What I think is interesting here is we now live in a very transparent world and every interaction maybe recorded. The question is, if I handled this differently would it have impacted how some may look at me?”
The video was posted to YouTube by lalawag, a Los Angeles-based tech site. When I watched the video for the first time, I thought Vaynerchuk was in on it, but from his commentary above, it sounds like he wasn’t.
BTW, Crush It is Vaynerchuk’s new book.

Filed Under: Change Agents, SXSW

About David Burn

I wrote my first ad for a local political candidate when I was 17. She went on to win her race, and I felt the power of persuasive copy for the first time. Starting in Portland in 1995, I worked my way across the country as a copywriter and eventually became a content director making media products for big packaged goods brands. I returned to Oregon in 2008, and now I focus on building brands for companies that matter, including this one.

http://www.adpulp.com Dan Goldgeier

Longtime Atlantans (and Domino’s pizza lovers) may remember that this scenario doesn’t work out so well for some unfortunately named people.
http://scriptxray.com Christopher // ScriptXRay.com

Gary V is a legend.
http://www.rosssimmonds.com Ross Simmonds

I love how he goes from a sleepy hello to strictly business.
http://theescapepod.wordpress.com/ vinny warren

great response. guy is clearly always ON.