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Gary Vee Rocks The Mic, Wins AdPulp’s International Humanitarian Award

May 5, 2014 By David Burn

The words we use are important. Words convey meaning.

Right now, I am looking for the words to convey how much I love this ass-kicking, fact-kicking session from Gary Vaynerchuk, head of Vayner Media.

In the video, a person asks Vaynerchuk how to meet “relevant people” at South By Southwest. Gary Vee rightly does the questioner and the larger world a great service by breaking down what’s wrong with the thinking that misinformed the question.

“When I hear people categorize others human beings as ‘relevant’ it makes want to vomit on myself,” he says.

Vaynerchuk is a humanist and it takes a humanist with brass balls to endow brands (and the company’s behind them) with the necessary degrees of humanity that will make them palatable to the real life people we sometimes refer to as consumers.

In a new article about sales on Medium, Vaynerchuk notes, “I pay attention to what people do and look for patterns. I think of conversion in an emotional more than an analytical way.”

In other words, sales and business is personal. At all levels, business is an exchange between people. It can be an equitable exchange or something less. When it’s something less, may today’s digitally-empowered consumers have mercy on your brand’s soul.

Vaynerchuk sees sales (and the taking care of customers that enables it) as art. A sale is something he creates and he believes in masterpieces. To get there, he uses leading questions “to reverse-engineer your needs and provide the insight that I could deliver on.”

At the heart of Gary Vee’s offering, and the reason for his charm and success, we do not find the social media tactic de jour. His message is about the fundamentals and the need for applying them in life and in business. Be a good person/business. Offer to help. And continually serve and grow your relationships.

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Filed Under: Ad People, Awards, Conferences, Industry Analysis, Influence, Sales, Social Media, Social Networks

About David Burn

Co-founder and editor of Adpulp. David wrote his first ad for a political candidate when he was 17 years old. She won her race and the advertising hook was set. Today, David is a copywriter and creative director in Austin, Texas.

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