Today there is a huge New York Times, four-photo, above-the-fold feature on Gary Vaynerchuk, host of the popular and influential wine video blog Wine Library TV. The paper reports that Gary has a million dollar, 10-book contract with HarperStudio.
It is fascinating to see that Gary has parlayed his video blog and relentless social networking into a successful personality-driven business, which is not dependent on advertising.
Gary was in our office last year for a little champagne tasting -- he barely escaped an exploding cork -- very entertaining video!
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