Mike Abasov

This is not a hardcore tip but, for many people, not an obvious one either. Of course, you can go search for tags like “marketing” or “ubc,” or else, if you like. But the following idea I got from Twitter. Remember when you checked whom your followers follow to see if there were any cool folks out there? This is just like that.

So, what I do is I go to a tumblr post like, say, the latest video from Gary Vaynerchuk. Then I look for notes on the page. Here they are:

All these people use tumblr and like stuff that you like. Now go and check out their blogs! This way I’ve found many interesting people like, for example, Derek Jensen.

On another note, I’m collecting blogs of my readers/followers to read them and connect better. So leave a link to your blog in the comment section below!

*Both links to the books in this post are affiliate. I decided to play around with Amazon. However, monetization is NOT the purpose of this blog at all. I am truly sorry, if you feel in any way offended by this move. I do mean every single word I write here.*

Gary Vaynerchuk’s “Crush It!” is simply awesome. Just as many other people, I found out about Gary by watching his presentation on TED’s website. From the first moments, I knew that this guy appeals a lot to what I believe in, especially, when he was talking about “donating to Haiti for retweets” trend, which I hate with every bit of my soul.

Gary’s doesn’t sell a dream of doing nothing and being reach, which many bloggers try to sell. He talks about working very hard and loving your job in order to succeed. This is exactly the kind of philosophy I follow.

So, after getting my iPad, I went to Amazon and bought a copy of Gary’s book. (By the way, it cost $2 less on Amazon than on iBooks). I read in in two days from cover to cover, and it’s just extraordinary. Fact is, this is a book I will remember and, maybe, the one that will change my life in the same Alina Wheeler’s “Designing Brand Identity” did three years ago.

Have you read it? What do you think?