Who’s Your Daddy: Parker, GaryVee or TBD?
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A lot of you are here for one reason, and one reason only: Gary Vaynerchuk linked to a post I wrote about him being a market maker.
I have some gestating ideas about the response to that article, but they’re not developed enough to share with you yet. In fact, I want to ask you guys a question or two to help me sort out my thoughts.
You certainly click when Gary tells you to — I know this because I have seen significant traffic boosts subsequent to his tweeting of my URL. And according to at least one winemaker, you buy when he says to buy. What I’m wondering is, are you just replacing one guru (Parker) with another (Gary)? If so, forget about the sea change many of you have noted in the comments to that last post.
Take the following poll and help me get to the bottom of this, and I will be eternally grateful — so grateful that I will reward you with a coupon code for free shipping on any order in our little store by using the coupon code “Gary” during check-out. Honor system of course, since I have no way of knowing whether you’ve actually taken this anonymous poll or not!
Loading …BONUS ROUND! If you’re familiar with Gary Vaynerchuk, you know that he finds and comments on any web post mentioning him…let’s make a little contest out of this! Guess exactly how long it will take Gary to find this post and comment on it, and the person coming closest will win some nice wine accessories, including an everyday wine carafe from d547. It’s about 9AM on Monday morning, and I’m guessing his Google Alerts will send him here by about 11PM tonight. Perhaps faster. Your thoughts?
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March 23rd, 2009 at 8:22 am
Great post. I look forward to you tweeting the results of your poll sometime soon! I know for me, it is about friend’s suggestions on what to try (fortunately for me, my friends are winemakers and wine bloggers). I will watch some of Gary’s show’s, but we have different tastes and so we tend to not like the same wines. Though he is always spot-on with the nose and the characteristics of the wines.
My guess would be around 7PM EST is when he will comment.
March 23rd, 2009 at 8:49 am
I bet he’ll find it by 2 pm EST. He’ll spend his lunch Googling himself (NTTAWT).
March 23rd, 2009 at 8:50 am
I bet he’ll find it by 3 pm EST. He’ll spend his lunch Googling himself (NTTAWT).
March 23rd, 2009 at 9:00 am
Shana Ray, thanks for your comment. Makes sense to me!
Jaime, you too — but I think you made two guesses by accident. I’ll split the difference and say 2:30PM EST if I don’t hear back from you soon
March 23rd, 2009 at 9:10 am
1 pm. I’m going to call him right now. Kidding!
March 23rd, 2009 at 9:27 am
It all depends who your peers are! I wouldn’t tarnish many talented tasters, winemakers, and bloggers by presuming to call them my peers.
Gary will find this before the evening rush, say 4 pm EST
March 23rd, 2009 at 9:59 am
I predict Gary will be ornery and NOT comment on this post!
Another wine buying influence choice would be winery tasting room personnel….
March 23rd, 2009 at 10:26 am
OK, I’m in for 3:30 EDT. I’m a newbie to wines, so I seek out the wine store folk and ask their opinion. There seem to be no shortage of opinions.
March 23rd, 2009 at 10:39 am
by 4pm EST!
March 23rd, 2009 at 10:52 am
6 est
March 23rd, 2009 at 10:53 am
Gary must be a night owl. Guessing by the time he settles in for an evening of work it will be 8:30EST
March 23rd, 2009 at 10:54 am
But then again I am going to tweet this to him so perhaps I should say right now!
March 23rd, 2009 at 11:41 am
Jaime is in for 3PM…but looks like that’s not the winner
March 23rd, 2009 at 4:59 pm
I’m in for 11:45 PM Eastern Time on Tuesday. Though, I think El Jefe is on to something.
Thanks for the free shipping. Is is wrong for me to have wine shipped all the way across the country? I’m sure Dr. Vino would not be happy.
March 23rd, 2009 at 7:34 pm
Man I was busy today
March 23rd, 2009 at 7:36 pm
Oh and I am super happy with the results of the vote as I really think #1 and #2 so far are the LEGIT places to go to for your advice, though i would really like it if people would just randomly try new types of wines every at bat!
March 24th, 2009 at 3:43 pm
And Tommy is the winner! I guess you will be getting a couple of accessories in addition to your Riesling. Congrats!
March 24th, 2009 at 4:15 pm
Yay! Thanks Jill. I’m looking forward to some tasty Riesling and snazzy d547 gifts.
March 27th, 2009 at 12:00 am
Ya, it’s all about the peers and community!
I think that’s why Gary has so much influence. He isn’t trying to advertise his store. He instead provides a lot of interesting content to a cool wine community online that can often fall back on his store.
March 30th, 2009 at 12:23 pm
Are we just link baiting Gary now? Are we reverting to the old days when shady webmasters would resort to putting words like “boobs” in their META tags just to get traffic whether they had boobs on their site at all? Has GV become the “boobs” of the wine blogosphere, circa 2009?
March 30th, 2009 at 12:25 pm
No link-baiting Dale. Gary’s traffic isn’t sticky. They’re interested in one thing: Gary, more so than wine.
I hope you’re joking.
March 30th, 2009 at 3:42 pm
I figured, Dale, but just wanted to make sure