The Curtis Sliwa Show: Gary Vaynerchuk CRUSH IT sound bite

Connect with Gary Vaynerchuk: website & twitter

Gary Vaynerchuk has captured attention with his pioneering, multi-faceted approach to personal branding and business. After primarily utilizing traditional advertising techniques to build his family’s local wine business into a national industry leader, Gary rapidly leveraged social media tools such as Twitter and Facebook to promote Wine Library TV, his video blog about wine. As his viewership swelled to over 80,000 a day, doors opened to a book deal, several national TV appearances, and a flurry of speaking engagements around the world. Gary’s dual identity as both business guru and wine guy has made him the “Social Media Sommelier.” His impact on the wine world has been commemorated via his inclusion in the 2009 Decanter Power List, an index of the 50 most influential figures in the industry.

Recently, Gary was named #18 on Askmen.com’s Top 49 Most Influential Men of 2009.

In addition to the Web 2.0 keynote above, Gary’s remarks on personal branding, social media, and business at FOWA, Strategic Profits, and South By Southwest occasioned praise from established web denizens including Kathy Sierra and earned the admiration of countless bloggers and aspiring entrepreneurs. Check out the Keynotes tab above for more video and check out Gary’s national TV appearances on the left!!

Gary’s landmark seven-figure book deal with Harper Studio was featured in The Wall Street Journal and he was recently profiled by The New York Times and Market Watch. Watch his interview with Business Week for Gary’s advice to entrepreneurs and small businesses.

This week Curtis joined Michael Mazzariello (a.k.a. “Judge Mazz”) from Street Court. Judge Mazz is a long time fan of the Guardian Angels and their work around the world. He along with producer Chris Strand (and two cameramen), were taken to the streets with Curtis and a crew of the Guardian Angels to film and explore The Underbelly Tour, a walking tour of the subways of NYC and the south Bronx. The footage captured will tie in with a future episode of Street Court.

For the upcoming air date follow Street Court on twitter. And of course we'll promote it on Curtis Sliwa dot com. Here are few photos to document the day.

Curtis, an observer and all round political wise guy comments on the 2008 Election, Wall Street meltdown, Bernie Madoff and the Guardian Angels in 'The Heart of Today', World Spirit's wide ranging documentary filmed throughout New York in 2008

Video Trailer click here.

Visit films website click here.

I recently was out to dinner with my wife and friends and the question came up, "why do they call New York the Big Apple?". We all looked around at each other and said, I don't know but we should find out! So I have sent my team (not Goldbrick) to search far and wide for the answer to this question.

Click here to see what we have found.

Please let me know what you think. Is it true what they say? Do you have another idea why?