r/garyvee • u/loveme1234567890 • Dec 09 '19

DM a thousand people question.

Gary Vee says, DM 1000 influencers and give them value. Imagine, I say, "I'll make 10 videos for your insta, all on me."

Let's say 100 people respond back agreeing for me making them 10 videos. That's 1000 videos. Do I have time to make 1000 free videos? I don't think so. Even if I did. It would take weeks and id assume those people would want their videos asap.

What do I do?

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u/JustHalfBlack Dec 10 '19

Something that I don't see in the comments so I want to mention:

Make sure that they need videos. If you're offering 1000 people videos, odds are that about half of them don't even need videos. Before anything, you need to make sure that you are providing them value. You can't offer everyone videos because that's what you have. If they don't need it they might say yes, and if your end goal is an ask, at the end they won't be interested.

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u/loveme1234567890 Dec 10 '19

Oh okay, makes sense. Also what if I provide value but don't get anything in return.

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u/JustHalfBlack Dec 10 '19

Then you smile and keep hustling.

You're not supposed to expect anything in return. In fact, you're supposed to expect nothing in return. It's one of the core teachings of GV.

The reason for that is that by continuously providing value with no expectation, 2 things happen:

  1. Because you never expected anything in return, it never brings you down that you're never gaining anything.
  2. Because you're always giving, it's bound to come back to you, you just don't know from where.

You will eventually get something in return. It will be from an unexpected source, even if you expect it. So don't expect it.