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AJ Vaynerchuk

A Story of How One Company Almost Earned My BusinessOctober 30

Here is a quick little story highlighting why Twitter can be a great asset for most businesses:

Story starts off with this tweet:

I have been using the food delivery service foodler for a few months now and have had nothing but great experiences. The service makes ordering food SUPER easy, and that is obviously something that is worth while for me. A few days after that tweet I received an @reply from a competitor of Foodlers:

Grubhub did a great job of using Twitter Search to track tweets regarding their competitors. Instead of being sneaky and inauthentic, the company sent me a tweet from the company account with a nice message regarding their service. I went ahead and checked out the website and decided to give it a shot today. That right there just gave Grubhub business they would have never had before, and took away business that Foodler should have received. On top of that, Grubhub gave itself the opportunity to gain and “steal” a customer.

Unfortunately for Grubhub, their product was inf

How NOT to pitch your website / applicationOctober 27

The following is a quick summary of an experience I just had regarding my site PleaseDressMe. If you are going to approach website owners / content owners with your service, DO NOT do anything listed below.

I received a Gchat request from someone I didn’t know. I accepted it just in case it was someone I actually did know.

The individual started off with “Thanks for accepting my chat request.” - That’s fine.

Then the individual states, “I can’t remember where i saw you first but it must have been linked to a cool application. Do you have an application for social networks?” - Really? You couldn’t take 5 seconds to figure out who I am and what my company is about?

A few minutes later the individual writes, “I see that you have a facebook app, have you made one for OpenSocial?” - Actually there is no PleaseDressMe Facebook application… yet

The individual then responds with: “Ok, when you have a facebook app, you should add it to company XYZ” - Well that was clearly a quick, well calculated pitch.

Please, please, please, please don’t follow this model. If you are going to approach someone with a business proposal of sorts take the time to know who they are, what their website is about, and how you can actually help them. The individual who approached me did no preparation, and offered no reason as to why their site would actually benefit me. I had no idea what t

Back from my 1 month off (Blame PleaseDressMe)September 9

I haven’t updated this blog in about a month, and today I decided enough was enough. I have been super busy with class and work, but that is no excuse. I am back on track, I promise

So what has happened the last month? One thing:

PleaseDressMe is a t-shirt search engine that I launched along with my brother Gary Vaynerchuk, and good friend Joe Stump. We also brought on a good friend of ours Chris Henslin on to make the whole thing look pretty.

The last week or so has been nothing short of crazy. I have been working 18 hour days along with my regular class schedule. I disparately need sleep, but PleaseDressMe’s early success has provided me with enough energy to keep moving forward.

We will be doing SO much in the coming weeks and months it will blow your mind. We have a few family friends helping out with the tagging end, and Gary, Joe, and I are working future features. We are all handling all sorts of other things, but some how we are finding the time!

So that’s really it for now, check

Gnarls Barkley + Lonely Island = Who’s Gonna Save My Soul aka WIN!August 5

You need to watch this twice, I recommend at least 7 times:

Who's Gonna Save My Soul @ Yahoo! Video

I Love Baron DavisAugust 1