Well I’m on a whirlwind reading experience just now and read Crush It!: Why NOW Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion in a couple of sittings.

This is an easy book to read quickly, even, I imagine for slow readers who feel it is an effort to wade through a book.

You’ll be pleased to know that Gary Vaynerchuk is just as compelling in print as he is on video. You can listen to him here talking with Agel Network Marketing Pro, Eric Worre, about how to ‘crush it’ and what it can mean for MLM: Gary Vee and Eric Worre Interview

I grabbed the book (and paid £12.99 at Waterstones in the UK for it.) I popped on to Amazon a few days later and found it at a much lower price. Gosh I hate that!

Anyway I couldn’t wait to delve in and as I’m pretty much up on the power of social media I can honestly say that there wasn’t much in it that I don’t already know BUT, (and this is a big but!) It is an incredibly inspiring and passionate read.

So What Can You Learn in ‘Crush It?‘

Well it will completely blow your mind if you are a beginner just looking to get going with social media for branding yourself online.

Gary gives some great resources and tips throughout the book and in an appendix at the back. He even gives away five business model ideas for Vlogs (Video blogs) because he says he just doesn’t have time to implement them.

I bet we will see prolific Vlogs and Blogs cropping up now on these ideas which are as diverse as a ‘tea blog,’ to a Sports blog.

Well I am British – maybe I’ll go with the tea. I’ll leave the Sports to you..

What did I love most about the book?

I love Gary’s passionate style. He is ‘all in.’ No excuses and no whingeing here. If you need a kick up the butt to get into action and make your dreams come true then this is a must read.

I love his inspiring story as a Jewish immigrant from Belarus who came as a kid with his family to the US with nothing to their name. Gary is proud of his family and what they have built.

What didn’t turn me on so much?

Gary is all about ‘hard work’ and there’s a point in the book where he indicates that if you are crushing it you might go to sleep at 3am and get back online at 6am!

Not sure about you but on that area I prefer to follow Tim Ferris’s ‘4 Hour Work Week.’ (Amazing book by the way)

I think a balance in the middle suits me more and I prefer leveraging my time and although there is something genuine and wonderful about how Gary insists on answering all his social media emails etc. himself.. it sounds absolutely exhausting.

Again I’m for the Randy Gage style of don’t give out your email to EVERYONE! On the other hand you do have to be accessible with social media and everything really is changing. What was acceptable years ago (hiding behind a door of privacy is less appealing to your followers as they want to reach YOU)

How does this work for MLM?

Well as I said in the blog post about the Gary Vee Interview with Eric Worre, Gary doesn’t really ‘get’ MLM (and why would he?) so there is a limit to what you can learn for your actual MLM business here in terms of duplication etc.

However there are some incredible lessons about branding YOU Inc. so if you’re a Mike Dillard fan you will definitely want to read this.

A blog or vlog, when done with heart and passion, is an amazing way to attract people to you for your MLM but it isn’t for everyone.

I give this book a big thumbs up because you will get lots of inspiration to be great (which is always welcome!) as well as a possibly a massive WAKE UP CALL about what is possible with Social Media these days.

On a very happy note if you didn’t yet see the video that Robert Kiyosaki made for me as a result of doing this online social media branding, and in fact promoting my MLM then you can watch it here:

You can grab the special offer at Amazon UK here:

I’d love to hear your comments so if you’ve read ‘Crush It,’ please share your thoughts with us here at the blog.