How a Creator Made Five Figures with Live Shopping

0:00Admit if you've done this. When you're trying to make content and get big, you're like, oh, this other person sucks and look at all the followers they have. I'm so much better than this person. Why are they, they suck, this is bull crap. I'm getting shadow banned. How many people have done that? Real talk, have looked at someone else or many other people in your genre. Beauty, motivation. You're looking at everybody else and you're deploying envy and jealousy instead of humility and accountability. Real talk, if somebody has millions of followers, and you don't, they're better at you in this game.

0:33This is sports, y 'all. This is sports. If you lose 11-4 in a one-on-one basketball game, do you say I'm better than them? If you lose 6-2, 6-2 in a set of tennis, do you shake their hand at the net, look at everybody around you and be like, I'm better, that was just, you know, do you do that? This is sports and content creation land. This is the Gary Vee Audio Experience. Good morning, good morning, good morning. Welcome to Tea with Gary Vee. Episode what? 104. 104 in the building. If you have a question for me in this show, ask the question in the chat. Just like Jess from Homestead, SJ Studios is in there.

1:18Rich LaCosta, big shout out to Robert Sala. Very excited about my former Jets coach getting a new job. He will be the Titans new coach. You're getting a good one, Nashville. a real, real man, a great dude. Congratulations to him. Green Dog, good to see you. Congrats to the University of Indiana getting their first national championship. I'm sure people are super hyped that our alumni, that was a big one last night. Matt G, good to see you. Again, everybody, if you have a question, ask it right here in the chat. My team is here to capture the best questions and we will answer them. Two of my cousins worked for you, James Orsini and Summer of Season.

1:54Let's go, 7th Thursdays, again, and we love the Orsini family. Been a fan for 10 plus years, read all your books. Actually speaking of books, are we putting a book in the store? What is in there? Meet me in the middle or? Can we put both? Can we pin both? Does that work? Yeah, let's get the books there. I'll get a copy of each in a rant. You can find one of each, please. I made five figures as a live TikTok shop creator because of you. Let's go, Jess, from the Holistic Homestead. Everybody, Jess said, I've made five figures as a live TikTok shop creator because of you. This is a revolution that's going on.

2:28I just posted on Instagram about live social shopping of a clip with me with a Raghav-like beard in 2015 predicting live shopping. And it was because I was already watching it in China and knew it would be a matter of time. It's been a decade. Court, how old were you 10 years ago? I was 16. 16. It took a little bit, but we're here, live shopping is here. Please learn about it. It is the unlock. TikTok shop, TikTok affiliate is a huge unlock for all of you. Double click the thing, double click the thing, double click the thing on the screen right now. Double click and keep joining the fan club.

3:05I love seeing Fanny there. Look at Fanny, that little heart. Book games are always forever. Who came from the text? Who came from Instagram? Who came from the notification? And who just showed up from the FYP? In the comments, I need all 700 of you. FYP, text, Instagram, or notification. Let me know, let me know. This is the home for Tea with Gary V. Let's, right now, get into the show. Who's got a question? Matthew, Norea, Raghav, who's got it? Yes, Gary. Danielle wants to know one non-negotiable habit of yours. Kindness. the one non-negotiable non-negotiable habit I have is to lead with kindness, to be kind to love my fellow man and woman regardless of anything definitely the bullshit that the world has bought into, gender religious, race, credence income, age, all the bullshit, all the fucking bullshit all of you bought into because politicians and others have weaponized fear on your punk asses.

4:15So that is my one non-negotiable. I just do not know how not to lead with it. I don't understand it. I'm not scared of people. So many people on this live right now fear people. Trust is earned. Fuck that shit. Trust is given by me. You have to earn your way out. And honestly, for me, you gotta do a lot of things to get out of there. I'm not a one strike I'm a baseball boy Court I'm a baseball boy There's no one strike you're out with me I know many people that are a one strike you're out Individual They are grounded in deep insecurities And lack of self esteem That's why they do that They're scared of people Hurting their feelings Their judgment on them How they make them feel And that is where I'm at So Savage thank you for joining Renee's Brains Thank you for joining Georgia Peach Thank you for joining.

5:10Who's new here? You have found the little kind and practical and accountable and optimistic corner of the internet. I'm so glad you're FYP. If you have joined here from your FYP and have never seen me before, don't know who I am, or maybe saw one video once, is that the same person? I have good news for you. You have found the positive, practical, best part of the internet where we keep it real as fuck and we keep it real kind. And that's where we're at. Next question. Ruth asks, Ruth. Ruth, yes. I love a good Ruth. What's the most underrated skill creators should be building right now that almost no one is taking seriously and why is that?

5:50Most underrated skill that creators should be taking right now that most people are not talking about? Live shopping. To become a live shopping host. Let me show you how to do it. Even though Eliza Belaway, who I love so much, has already bought the kids' book. Who here, let me show you a skill all of you should learn. who here is a super aunt not like an aunt like accountable aunt but you're an auntie you have nieces and nephews who here is a remarkable uncle I like being I'm a very good uncle by the way who here is a great aunt or an uncle who's a grandma or grandpa or who's a parent that is a kid between three and six if you do pinned on the screen right now is my remarkable New York Times almost best selling book we missed it by like a thousand covers Almost best New York Times selling book, meet me in the middle, around Patient Pig and Eager Eagle.

6:42Everybody in the chat that is reading this to their kids, tell everybody how awesome it is. Please click the link right now. Is there any coupons or discounts? Or we don't know, right? Maybe not, there we go. 10 % off on$47 orders and plus? Right now it currently says 33 % off. 33 % off, you can get this for$13.49. Yeah, right now, and I see Sirica, Sir CEO, picked up my book on how to get better at content. Ironically, this book is the answer to Ruth's question. That's also in the store. That's on your bottom left cam corner. If you hit the shopping bag, everything's in the store. Grab this right now and be the greatest parent, uncle, niece, nephew ever.

7:23Promise, promise, promise. That's a skill that people need to learn. How to use AI, Sora 2, how to use all those. If you're a creator, how to use AI. I, the number one skill creators need to learn is humility and patience. You know, HP is not for Hewlett Packard. HP is for humility and patience. An incredible lack of skill in the community of creators. So many people give up too soon. So many people give up too soon. Christine, thank you for viewing the product. All of you, thank you who's looking at the GDG. Thank you for viewing the product in the store where when you're live, you can actually see who's in the store.

8:06Everybody, just click it right now just to see why is Avengers behind me, number 10? Because, Sean, I am heavy into comic book land. In fact, I'm coming off a two-day off-site with VFriends, my universe. VFriends is this incredible, there's Gratitude Gorilla, Headstrong Honey Badger, Decisive Duck. VFriends is my crazy universe. We got crazy characters, look at this. Let me show you a couple more. Resilient Red Devil. So I'm very deep into self-aware hair. This is why I'm building the VeeFriends, VeeFriends. You can find them anywhere, chat, you can see it, Google it. Manus, thank you. Dolls Credit Solutions, thank you for picking up the book.

8:49J.Froff, you're a real homie. Thank you for picking up both of the books. Live shopping is real for everyone. As you can see above me in the auctions, this is VeeFriends stuff sold on the most popular auction site on the internet. You can see what's going on. If you want to learn more, if you are a manga, anime, Comic-Con nerd, if you've got kids five to seven that are going crazy about Pokemon, you have to check it out. ToroShop, great to see you. Big shout out to 370 to 270. Losing a lot of weight on social, good for you. All right, let's keep it going. Can you retouch on humility and patience for creators?

9:29The biggest issue for creators is they don't have humility and patience, so they give up. They don't have humility, so they're worried about other people's opinions. When you're humble, you are immune to gossip. You're immune to jealousy. You're immune to envy. You're immune to these outside forces that I would argue dictate 95 % of people's lives. And so when you're humble, you know, when you, for example, yee-haw, I'm a cowboy. Everybody, please go to the bottom right and start doing all the weird stuff on TikTok that I like so much, I will interact with it. But everybody, I'm telling all of you, many of you, many of you, thank you so much, it's Coach Lance for getting that for your three year old.

10:13Oh, he got it for$7.89, he had some coupons. Many of you have this very big flaw called audacity. Matthew, do you know how many people say things like, I'm posting all this great stuff but nobody gets me, or I'm shadowed banned or the algorithm screwing me. You know, I, on the other hand, as you all know, say we've sucked for 18 months. That's a very big difference. I'm like at the top of the game and I'm talking about like we stink, I stink, we've got to get better, we suck, I suck, as a leader, I suck, you suck, we suck, I suck, I suck. Humility. Other people are like, you know, the algorithm screwing me, I'm making great stuff, look at, Let's go into admitting our right now.

10:59I need all 864 of you, admit if you've done this. When you're trying to make content and get big, you're like, oh this other person sucks and look at all the followers they have. I'm so much better than this person. Why are they, they suck, this is bull crap, I'm getting shadow banned. How many people have done that? Real talk, have looked at someone else or many other people in your genre, beauty, motivation, whatever. And you, yeah, thank you SideQuest Queen. You're looking at everybody else and you're deploying envy and jealousy instead of humility and accountability. Real talk. If somebody has millions of followers and you don't, and they're better at you in this game.

11:42This is sports, y 'all. This is sports. If you lose 11 to four in a one-on-one basketball game, do you say I'm better than them? If you lose 6-2, 6-2 in a set of tennis, do you shake their hand at the net, look at everybody around you and be like, I'm better. That was just, you know, do you do that? This is sports and content creation land. Also back to patience train, if you take up archery, archery, do you just expect to be Olympic level archer on your first time, there's people that have not been put in the reps. They've not put in the reps. By the way, nobody is shadow banned. 99.9999, nobody's shadow banned.

12:35You just suck. Your content sucks. It's not hitting. Sama, great to see you in here. Rap Rap, great to see you in here. Anna, thank you for joining. Applause, thank you for joining. Everybody, while I do this one minute of thanking everybody, Two things I ask, double tap the screen and go to the bottom right and hit the little gift box and do all the actions, the VR, the AR, all that stuff. I don't need the timer, thank you though. Migs, good to see you. Justin Wood, Heather, thank you for joining. Katrina, personal growth coach, thank you for joining the stream. The car slinger, thank you. The grind culture, thank you for picking up Meet Me in the Middle.

13:12Literally, if you do not buy this for your kid right now in the next 30 seconds, your kid will not be successful in life. I don't know if you know this. It's very weird. It's this new superstition. If you do not buy this book in the next 30 seconds here on TikTok, your child will not be successful. I'm joking. Maybe not. Kelly C. Thank you for picking up the book. New Zealand Native. Thank you. Yeehaw! Migs, thank you so much for that nice comment. You don't need to send gifts. They're like.0003 cents. I'm showing you on the bottom right, joining the fan club. I love showing people the thing that you should be doing.

13:53You don't, listen, friends, you don't need to buy anything. Let me make my official statement on this forever. No one ever has to buy anything from me. Not the wine my daddy sells, not this incredible Pokemon-like marble world I'm building called VFriends. You don't need to hire VaynerMedia. You don't need to hire me as a public speaker. You don't need to send your kid to VaynerSports to join our agency. You don't need to eat at Little Maven or Fly Fish Club or Capon's in New Jersey in my restaurant group. All I want you to do is watch how I'm building a business. Watch how I'm bringing value.

14:27Watch how I am selling things that I believe are worth it and replicate that. Dinever48 says garage sale boy and you're absolutely right. You're absolutely right. My favorite thing, my favorite thing is for people that know me as like that guy that yells on the internet or garage sale boy when they actually do homework and realize who I actually am as a businessman. I'm happy about that because I hope it inspires people to live their full life to who they are and do what they want. You know what I want? I want to find Macho Man Randy Savage mugs at garage sales for 25 cents and flip them for nine bucks.

15:07That's more exciting than the$8 million deal we just closed at VaynerMedia today. All right. Bobby, good to see you, Chubbler. Good to see you. All right, let's keep it going. Augusto asked, how do you decide when you should change your content strategy? Say you decide to stop, ask Gary, or start recording your day 24-7, what factors do you take into consideration? When I stop? When you stop or start new shows, new things. Pure intuition and curiosity. As you know, all of you know, here's a little preview to everybody on here. I'm getting serious about podcasts. We are gonna come out guns a-blazing.

15:48Pew, pew, pew. I don't even know what that was. Pew, pew, pew. Lasers. What am I, a robot? You know, I've just been thinking about it for a year and now we're gonna do it. You know, live streaming in the morning with Tea with Gary V like this. You know, I just go with intuition. I go with what excites me. I go with what I feel. I go with what I want. I live a human life. I do not live an academic life. I do not live a guru told me life. I live a what's in my gut, how do I feel, what do I want to do. I'm a creator, I'm a builder, I'm deeply curious, I'm deeply creative, I'm deeply operational. All these things have serviced me well in the many businesses that I've built, but more importantly, in the great joy that I've had for three decades.

16:38my 20s 30s and 40s were all phenomenally exciting and happy for me plenty adversities plenty things I would tweak here and there but I sit here today as a 50 year old man super thrilled with nothing but hunger excitement and ambition for my next 50 years and I've done that I'm purely listening to myself they tell athletes listen to your body right I listen to my body I listen to my soul I'm super in with myself it's me and me me and I myself with me I'm in that place no outside force matters and that's how I make those decisions Raga Lauren thank you for the comment Alina, Jman let me thank everybody who's picking up the kids book is red hot right is it the kids book bit is that the one that's pinned I just want to thank Catherine Pina Take a Test Drive Automotive Studio OXOIO Archie Lex Thank you all for buying kids books.

17:34A lot of people are buying this for under 10 bucks. Like all these different coupons? Where do people get coupons? In this top left corner. Friends, in the top left corner, there's like, looks like a little coupon or a note. It's like a percentage. A little percent, top left corner, click that. For some reason I'm seeing in the shop that people are buying this$30 book for like seven, eight, seven, six. I like it. You guys are crafty. You guys are crafty. All right, let's keep it going. Thank you, Catherine just bought the book for her granddaughter. Thank you for that, Catherine. That means the world to me.

18:05All right, everybody, ask your questions in the chat. Double tap the stream. We've got a thousand people in here. It means the world to me. Bottom right corner, hit that little arrow and share and repost. If you came from the text, if you came from my Instagram, if you came from the FYP, or if you came from the notifications, let me know how you got onto the show. I need 945 answers right now. How did you get to the show this morning? I'm learning, I'm building, I'm figuring things out. And how many people have never seen me before? Literally you have no idea who I am. This is the first time you've been here from FYP.

18:38Say never before. In the chat say never before. You have no idea who the hell I am. Alright let's keep it going. That's the next question. If you have a question ask it in the chat. G Alex asks what's the biggest what was the biggest turning point for you in your life? Not in a business standpoint but more personally if you recall. I would say the biggest turning point in my life, I mean the biggest turning point in my life I don't remember which was I was born in the Soviet Union which is a shithole and a terrible place to be born. More similar to North Korea than any other part of the world right now.

19:13And the turning point was I was able to get out because Russia and America made this trade and a couple hundred thousand Russians were able to get the fuck out. And that is the great lottery ticket of my life. That's the turning point of my life. but I don't remember it. Remembering the turning point in my life probably when I fought Oded Weinstock in second grade. It was the first time I fought. There was a lot of pressure. I went to Martin Luther King Elementary School on the wrong side of the tracks at Edison, New Jersey. You know, Oded tried to punk me. We fought. I won. And I think that when I was seven or eight that's when I became a man.

19:53I think more kids should fight I'm not kidding about that I know people are like what I know modern parenting is not on that kick but that was a very big turning point for me because I had to make a decision like was I going to be someone who was going to get pushed around and punked or was I going to fight back and you know that was a I think a lot of men specifically aren't yee-haw aren't challenged these days enough to make those decisions and come out soft and insecure. And not that fighting's the answer, but like whether it's sports, whether, you know, the number one thing is parents have to get out of kids' business.

20:41Parents had a little bit of a better balance. Look, I don't think like parents, like I love that parents are in kids' stuff now. Now so many of us grew up with dads not around at all. I like many of the things, but I think we overcorrected. And I think parents need to get out of kids' businesses. If you're a parent that fights your fights for your child, then you're gonna be a parent that fights your fights for your children when they're adults.

21:07And that's a problem. Anybody right now who's watching, if you're deeply involved in your 25 year old's life, paying for them, constantly taking, like, it's a problem. It's a problem, it's hard, because we love these, I have a 16 and 13 year old, I've just been living through it, I'm living through it. You love these people more than you love yourself. You'll die for your children, right? But,

21:34you can't fight your kids' fights. And the turning point of my life was winning that fight. I also fought by the way me and Oded Weinstock were like Ali and Frazier we fought three times we fought four times actually the third time was a full day fight I won in second and third grade cause I was on some tenacious shit in sixth grade he punked me good it was a rain it was a snow day we had to be in pre-homeroom in the hallway I ran my mouth on him cause he knew nothing about sports I like to claim I turned around and he pushed me into the locker and the locker combo hit me in the ribs and then he got on top of me before the teachers broke it up.

22:20Truth is, if I'm keeping it real, I think I kinda rewrote history there. He like punked me in the morning. Whole school's talking about it. Oded beat up Gary. I don't know if you've ever been a sixth grade boy in the lower income areas of New Jersey, but when your whole school is talking shit that you lost a fight in the morning, you are at the crossroads of your life. I've never been at the crossroads of my life like that before. Or since. I fucking, out of like a fucking 1980s movie, stood up and fucking lunch, walked over to him and said, after school on Marco's Hill by the ice cream truck.

22:56This is real. If you grew up in Edison, New Jersey during this time, confirm it, Marco's Hill where the ice cream truck was, right outside of John Adams Middle School in Edison, New Jersey. And fucking, we fought. And he was winning early. And I got lucky. I'm happy to admit it. He was on top of me throwing fucking haymakers. He was twice my size at this point. At least 50 % bigger. I'm getting very fortunate nothing's really landing. I'm like, I'm laying there with Odette on top of me. Fucking 50, 100 kids around. And I'm like, this is fucking it. This is fucking it. This is it. And I'm rocking.

23:35Because I was very scrappy as a kid. Like wrestled a lot. Even though I didn't do anything official. like it was just backyard fucking, and I'm fucking rocking, and somehow by the graces of fucking God, I get Oded off of me, and then the moment of my life happened. I throw a right on the ground, we're both on the ground, I throw a right and kick, and I fucking kick, and my fucking foot hit Oded Weinstock directly in the fucking mouth. Kinda looked like I might have hit him, no one really knew it, we both are like, we kinda get back up, and it's like the moment of re-engagement and the dude is bleeding heavy.

24:15And Tyler Bunting, may he rest in peace, was there. Max Thomas, that was his little crew. Also my friends, but they skewed it. And Oded was a little shook, a little embarrassed, and ran off and that was it. Fucking greatest moment of my fucking life and it's not even close.

24:38thank you Conor Board that was it man that was the that was it and again if you know anybody that went to Edison New Jersey in the mid-80s hit them up they will validate they will validate it was a big moment I came into school the next day all four foot fucking four of me feeling six six, seven fucking, like a male fucking model. I think the girls paid attention. That was it. So I don't even know how we got there, but that is what happened. All right, let's keep it going. So go ahead and bring back today. Hold on, The Car Slinger, thank you so much for picking up, ooh, some comic books. Yes, everybody, bottom left-hand corner, there's a little shopping bag, click that.

25:26that all the stuff is in the store. And if you're a collector, you're gonna go crazy. And if you really wanna learn about, if you really, really wanna learn about marketing and you wanna go deep and you really wanna learn how to be great at this game, this is it right here. It's in the store. Let's pin it. Oh, it's pinned now. I'm making it easy. Double click twice to save your business life. Here it is. Let's go. 21 people have it in their cart. 21 people have it in their cart. 21 savage individuals have it in their cart, yet they're hesitating on the Apple Pay. Motherfucker. But if you can't afford it, don't do it.

26:02But if you can't afford it, don't be a bitch. Maybe they're stacking the coupons. Oh, they might be stacking coupons, everybody. Top left corner if you want to steal everything in the shop. All right, let's keep it going. Who's got a question? Gary, Jet asks. Jet? Yes. All right, I love this person. Maybe he's playing on the football team. I don't know if that's their real name. You've lived in New York City for what, decades? More than half my life. Yeah. Just curious, what about New York draws you here, keeps you here? There's no city like this for a maniac like me. You know, some people, you know, maybe in this room, they need the woods.

26:43They like that rural life. They like that quiet. I'm the reverse. I sleep with a sound machine like, like heavy, loud, white noise. I need the action. I need the stimulation. I'm at peace when it's chaotic. You know, you guys know what my office normally looks like. I cleaned it up a little bit for New Year, but like by the end of this year, it will have all sorts of stuff. I need all sorts of the stimulation. I am in my most calm, most calm when I am around noise and chaos coming out of a meeting at 11.30 at night. 11.30 at night. Have you been in LA at 11.30 a night? Or Chicago or San Francisco or Boston?