Wine School with Gary Vaynerchuk

Wine School with Gary Vaynerchuk

August 23rd, 2008 // 11:45 am @ Jim Kukral

A few weeks ago I got to spend a day and a night hanging out with Gary Vaynerchuk of Winelibrary.tv as he was in town for a book signing. The full video experience of my time spent with him will come later, but for now, I have a video about a person I met who was in Gary’s entourage… Marianne Frantz of the Cleveland Wine School.

The video below is an interview I did with Marianne about the Cleveland Wine School, with a funny impromptu appearance from Gary V in a few places. Pretty funny. The video was shot at lunch after a live taping of the Thunder show with Gary in Cleveland Browns Stadium (personal video on that to come later). Go watch, great episode.

Why am I posting this video about a regional company when my blog is read by thousands of people who don’t live in Cleveland? Well, it’s a perfect example of how anyone can make a video commercial for their company with a simple inexpensive camera. Something I encourage all businesses to do. Tell me this isn’t a video you’d like to show to your customers to educate them about your business?

The whole thing took me 10 minutes to edit, and by using the Flip camera, easy to record. Why aren’t you doing video yet? Give me a ring so I can help you get on it, or sign up for my free Online Video Toolkit for some free advice.

Here’s the video on Youtube if you wish to view it there.


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7 Comments → “Wine School with Gary Vaynerchuk”


  1. Jerome B.

    2 years ago

    Awesome job Jim. I especially like this video because I'm in it. Also Thank you to Marianne for inviting us to the Wine School and letting us try a fabulous wine.

  2. Yeah, that's right. Thanks for stopping by. Fun day eh?


  3. Fendyk

    2 years ago

    The video you have taken is very funny and interesting as well.You have put up an new idea,that shooting with an camera is not a hard task and any one can do it.But I hope editing can only done by experts.

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  5. Rachel

    1 year ago

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  7. Vaynerchuk is a really saavy guy when is comes to market positioning and and branding. He's pretty much single-handedly built up his wine empire from basically nothing and total obscurity to one of the most visible people, if not the most visible, in his market. I'm all ears as to anything he says or does.


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