Meet Gary Vaynerchuk, the Social Media Sommelier

On winelibrary.com, Gary shares his passion for wine with 80,000 viewers a day. Increase his stats, subscribe to his motivational show on iTunes andwatch it on the subway on your way to work in the morning. So much energy can only wake you up!

He already published 450 episodes. They all use the same recipe: a webcam, a bottle or two, a glass, a bucket to spit, and a super-excited Gary.

Gary uses many 2.0 online tools to promote his brand: himself. Friend him up on Corkd.com where he posts wine reviews, on facebook, twitter, pownce, linkedin, viddler, myspace…

He just released Gary Vaynerchuk’s 101 Wines: Guaranteed to Inspire, Delight, and Bring Thunder to Your World, a book that is already #2 on Amazon in the Buying Wine guides. Check out the book page on the e-retailer’s site, Gary blogs there, gives consumers his email address to answer their questions before they click on buy, consumers post video reviews and they all gave a 5-star rating!

To support his book, Gary does a TV-tour. Keep an eye on your TV guide, according to his previous national TV appearances (Conan O’Brian, Ellen DeGeneres), it should be worth spending some time on your couch. The weather sucks anyway.

With his passion and the love from his fans, he turned the wine-merchant family business in New Jersey from a $4.5 millions to now a $60m-a-year enterprise. Some call him Oprah 2.0.