Bring The Thunder Contest

Spread the thunder during the next week for your chance to win three exciting prizes.
As Gary Vaynerchuk always says, “You, with a little bit of me… we’re changing the wine world.” To continue changing the wine world we need more of you! Here’s your opportunity to spread the thunder with a shot at some incredible prizes. Gary will draw the winners randomly on February 19th on Wine Library TV!

How to Enter

  • 1) Subscribe to the WLTV Feedburner Feed. You must be subscribed in order to be eligible to win!
  • 2) Spread the Thunder. Email your friends, post in facebook or myspace, review WLTV in iTunes, launch a National TV campaign… get creative and find your own personal way to spread the word about the Internet’s most passionate wine program.
  • 3) Tell us how you’ve helped spread the thunder by posting in the comments section on this page. Explain below how you’ve spread the thunder; then Gary and the WLTV Crew will assign you a number of contest entries as a function of your effort, creativity, and impact.

Prizes

  • Grand Prize (1). The Grand Prize winner will receive a trip to co-host Wine Library TV with Gary Vaynerchuk, then a private dinner with Gary in New York City, and we’ll put you up at a hotel in New York.
  • Runners-up (5). The 5 Runners-up will receive an AppleTV. Watch the Thunder Show in glorious high defintion!
  • Sub-winners (25). 25 sub-runners-up will win an exclusive Wine Library TV Schwag pack, featuring the *NEW* limited edition Wine Library TV wristband and more!

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  1. February 9, 2008

    Sassodoro

    I can’t say I have done anything too crazy, but I do my little bit on a personal level. I tell my friends and family, and I email them with links to specific episodes that seem especially relevant to them.

    Last summer I had Wine Library send cases of (mostly) the same wines to my niece, my nephew, and to me. My niece and nephew have been CKC’s until recently, and although they are interested in wine, they don’t have a lot of money. I picked bottles that are inexpensive and that Gary had reviewed favorably, and I emailed them the links to all the episodes where Gary had reviewed the wines. The idea was to convince them that you don’t have to spend big bucks to drink good wine, and to be able to compare their own experience with these wines to Gary’s experience, each other’s, and mine.

  2. February 9, 2008

    C.J. Brous

    I went “New World” on spreading the Thunder and focused on the Web 2.0:

    1. Of course I Friended you up on Facebook and added all of the aps to my page
    2. Then I “Linked You Up” on Linked in and recommended you
    2. Wrote a review on iTunes
    3. I then took that one step further and rated ALL of the reviews on iTunes — of course dissing the bad ones and pumping up the good ones!
    4. And finally, I created an “Official Vayniac” icon for AIM so the 200+ people on my Buddy List will look at it EVERY DAY and say “WOW — what is that all about?”

  3. February 9, 2008

    Rice

    How I’m passing the Thunder…
    1) Buy wine from WLTV – free shipping helps ;)
    2) Invite targeted friends, coworkers, and relatives over for the wine who I know will embrace WLTV and embrace their own palette
    3) Watch WLTV episodes at the same time tasting the vino.
    4) Tell them to spread the viral thunder and buy more wine from WLTV.
    5) Next week we’ll crack open the Christmas Pack!!

    Small sidenote… EVERY bottle I’ve bought from WL I’ve given away to friends to help spread the thunder… That’s just how I roll.

  4. February 9, 2008

    Senor Sangria

    Here is what i’ve done:

    Standard Stuff:
    - Let all my friends and family know about you guys

    - Emailed special episodes to friends (the beer one really caught the attention of one of my friends)

    Different Stuff:
    - Went onto Yahoo and opened up an ad account. I bought some ads on google for winelibrary TV.

    - I perform implemenation and training sessions to make some money on the side. On the white board i would write tv.winelibrary.com without telling anyone. Eventually someone would ask the question. What is that. Then i would tell them to go experience it. It is nothing that you’ve seen before.

    - As I start my new business and meet with Retailers. I tell them that i’ve met with Gary and explain what he had to say about my sangria. Then i follow up and tell them to check out his show at tv.winelibrary.com

    Cheers!
    - Rick Martinez

  5. February 9, 2008

    billr

    THAT IS geocaching.com sorry for the misspell

  6. February 9, 2008

    billr

    Have you ever went GEOCACHING??????? Geocaching is a hunt for treasure type game that anyone can do as long as they have a GPS device in order to find the hidden caches. I am going to SPREAD THE THUNDER by hiding a geocache by the name of “You, with a little bit of me…..” somewhere in the Northeast Texas area and then I will list it on “geocahing.com” so that it will be available for thousands and thousands to see and go find. When they find the hidden cache container it will be full of “http://tv.winelibrary.com” stickers and a log book to sign. Also, there are Travel Bugs that a geocacher can activate and put in a hidden cache. The Travel Bug is given a goal and geocachers then help the Travel Bug complete its goal by moving it from cache to cache until it’s goal is completed. I am also going to be placing a Travel Bug in the cache and the Travel Bugs name is going to be WLTV and its goal is going to be to make its way to Gary at WLTV via the geocache system and possibly be on the show. It may take it a few weeks or a few years to get to WLTV if it gets there at all. Hopefully it will pass through many hands of those geocasher’s and SPREAD THE THUNDER. This will all start as soon as geocaching.com posts the hidden cache. If you want to follow the progression of either the cache, the Travel Bug or both, then go to geocaching.com and do a search for “You, with a little bit of me…”

  7. February 9, 2008

    Dan C.

    Well GV, I had to do more than just word of mouth, so here’s a link to a little thing I like to call Dan C. Spreadin’ the thunder Round 2! Check out this commercial I made just for you.

    Myspace:
    http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=27926361

    also posted on You Tube:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vz0MiatJufM

    So check it out … there’s a little lightning at the end in honor of the THUNDER show.

    Thanks Gary.

  8. February 9, 2008

    T.Stro

    I live in Japan, for now, and travel Asia extensively and often. What I’ve been doing is resetting the homepages on computers in internet cafes & coffee houses to http://www.tv.winelibrary.com ! Over the past month or so, I’ve done the deed in HK, Bangkok, Jakarta, Manila, Denpasar (Bali), Tokyo, and Saporro. In a couple days I’ll be in Pakistan & will begin my assault in that country! I have no idea if it is working, but the simple thought of someone sitting down to begin their internet session & being greeted with “Hello every-buddy and welcome to winelibrary TV…” makes me smile. Oh, I’ve also created a ringtone for my phone of Gary’s WLTV opening :-) (and Gary, don’t worry about flying me back to the States, I’ll be back for a few months this Spring/Summer. If you catch me at the right time I’ll already be in Ocean County, NJ. I’m saving you major bones!)

  9. February 9, 2008

    MagnumGourmet

    What do you get when you combine 1 man, a 20 foot banner and a 25 mile an hour breeze?

    A failed attempt!

    Keep in mind that all of the things that happened below were in full view of bumper to bumper rushour traffic.

    Had the best intentions of putting up the tv.winelibrary.com banner this morning. Drove to the overpass, go out and noticed that the wind was blowing pretty hard. Went through the truck to see if I could find some twine to hold one of the poles to the fence while I stretched the sign out. Unfortunately, no twine…However, I did find a box of dental floss…It would have to do.

    Got up on the overpass and put the banner up against the fence and tied one pole (not very well mind you) with the dental floss. Started to unwrap the banner. Got it all of the way open and this is where things went awry. The wind changed direction and wripped the sign off of the pole I was holding. I grabbed the end that was whipping around and plastered myself up against the fence. At this point I did get two separate honks from cars below. Not sure if they were Vayniacs or just people who were rooting for the banner to win the fight. Was able to keep the banner up for a couple of minutes and then the dental floss gave up the ghost and the other pole went flying. I figured I had given it my best college try, so I piled everything up in the middle of the overpass and made the following video.

    http://www.viddler.com/explore/magnumgourmet/videos/2/

    My message may not have reached as many people as I would have preferred, but I hope you still give me one or two entries for effort.

    MagnumGourmet!!!!!!

  10. February 9, 2008

    Victor

    I have spread the Thunder on Facebook my blog that as of right now is out of service. I have also spread the thunder to my friends which as of now at least one is now a Vanyiac. Wear my T-Shirts including GV’s Dodgeball shirt to campus and around town as well as my wristbands. If anyone asks I send them here. Got my family into real wine and not just Yellowtail. Purchased different wine for both Thanksgiving and Xmas. If my school work lightens up then I am going to make flyers and leave them in the seats and desks of my University.
    Took a trip out to the East End on Long Island and told everyone about WLTV if they had not heard about it.

  11. February 8, 2008

    Glenn

    Missed your show yesterday with your pops and pipes, but caught up today. Reason I missed it was that I invited 5 of my close friends over for a wine tasting. The kicker is that all of them are big beer drinkers and not one of them had ever experienced wine other than MD or Boones Farm years ago when you drank it for a cheap drunk. By the time we were done, I believe I converted all 5 to become regular wine drinkers. I showed them your episode 148 and they have all subcribed to your show now. Next project is to have a wine tasting over the internet with my 5 siblings that live in 5 different states. We are all buying the same 5 wines and will taste them and e-mail each other our tasting notes as we do it. I know it is not huge but in my own small way with a little of me and a lot of you, I am spreading the thunder.

  12. February 8, 2008

    Ernest_G

    Welp, this is my effort to spread the thunder. Not only have a turned some coworkers in to Vanyiacs. But I also changed my profile details within my gamer tags.

    As you may see, I added a bit of detail to the MySpace profile. I also added some details in my Xbox gamer profile: http://live.xbox.com/member/AceGmr

    Did the same to my PS3 profile, but that can’t be shared without someone adding me to their friends list: PlayStation Network Username: ACE_GMR

    I would of added a banner to my PlayStation Forum signature, but we are not allowed to have content related to alchohol. :\

    But this is my effort, none the less.

    Hope this helps bring in some new thunder to your show.

    GG, GV. :)

  13. February 8, 2008

    Mike Palmason

    I was interviewed by our local newspaper at a wine tasting tonight. One of the questions she asked me was where I learned about wines. I told her that I learned so much from Gary Vaynerchuk at WineLibrary.com. I told her that I subscribe on itunes and that everyone should try it. Hope that helped spread the thunder. My only regret was that I wasn’t wearing my schwag tonight.

    Thanks for everything Gary and Mott!

  14. February 8, 2008

    The Fanjestic

    Ok – so I am having trouble with http://www.spreadthethunder.com – however, I will create a site for Vayniacs to contribute their own wine videos as soon as my IT guys help me set it up.

    In the meantime, I will continue to spread the thunder by encouraging the Fort Worth Jerks to learn wine, through your site, which several have begun browsing for purchases (a very big deal).

    Also, I will continue to promote the WLTV as much as I can through the insurance industry.

    Gary – ever need to cut your insurance costs – I can help no charge! Whatever helps WL thrive!!!!

  15. February 8, 2008

    HuskerJamie

    I changed my status on facebook to say, “Be radool about wine, spread the Thunder (tv.winelibrary.com). I also told wine buyers at our liquor store about the T-Show. I also wore a T-Show shirt to the Chelsea Clinton appearance on the U of Nebraska campus.

  16. February 8, 2008

    aronowm2

    Spread the thunder….Gary I have a unique one. I just did this 10 minutes ago and it’s a “permanent” spread the thunder. I play poker on Pokerstars.com with my wife every night while we watch and listen to your show. Anyways, the site let’s you create an avatar which is seen by everyone for the duration that you are at their table. I had to play with your badges, but I finally came up with one. There are as many as 150,000 players on Pokerstars at once. this is international. So that is some serious thunder on the exposure. also, it’s permanent…so every night people will have Wine Library TV in front of them. I think this deserves more than 1 entry due to it’s stickiness…my screename on Pokerstars is the same as my name here “aronowm2″. Love the show. later.

  17. February 8, 2008

    Craig MacDonald

    Not the mega efforts you’re getting from some, but I have a WLTV widget on my blog (CraigMacDonald.blogspot.com). And in the bordering-on-tacky department I wear my Wine Library Tee when I shop at my local wine store. I keep telling the guy he needs to hook up with GV but so far I don’t think he has.

  18. February 8, 2008

    Rob C

    Hey Gary, I’m pouring my wine at The Virginia Wines Showcase this weekend in Washington DC and I’ll be all schwaged out in WLTV gear. Our chalkboard listing the wines that we are pouring will also have info on it to tell the thousands of people attending the event to get with the program and check out the 17th highest rated wine show on the internet.

  19. February 8, 2008

    Ozzybeef

    I was at a customers today and told him about WLTV. We pulled it up on his computer and jumped around a few episodes. He ended up getting a few bottles from WL!

  20. February 8, 2008

    Sara L.

    doh! i meant that now you won’t have to *wish* you had a theme song!

  21. February 8, 2008

    Sara L.

    hey gar,

    here’s your theme song!

    http://www.saraleib.com/AUDIO/wltvtheme.mp3

    Now you won’t had a theme song…complete with your request of phrases.

    Wish I was gonna be in Boston this weekend, have fun without me.

    by the way, I think this should add to my ’spread the thunder’ awesomeness.

    -sar

  22. February 8, 2008

    Fred

    I’ve been spreading the thunder like crazy. I’ve been telling everyone to check out the show and website. I put a badge blog post up for all my peeps to check out.
    Thanks Gary V. Your hard work and great content are very appreciated. Keep bringing the thunder and I’ll keep spreading the word!

    http://haleybailey.tumblr.com/post/25878150

  23. February 8, 2008

    crank

    I added a badge to my blog and have been telling everyone I know about your show. I’ve gotten our local wine tasting group totally hooked.

  24. February 8, 2008

    Jørn Idar

    Hey GV & Moot!
    This thing is really going large, aint it? It’s totally rad to watch some of the things the people do!
    So, what have I done to bring the thunder to other? Well;

    * Have mailed all the people I have on my mailinglist, alot of cooks here in Norway, including some big names (people working with The Norvegian Cooking Championship, The Norvegian Culinary Team etc.)
    Have also taken my close friends, having wine 101’s, making them see what glass, temperatur etc can do to wine.
    * Have done a iTunes review
    *Did a blogpost on my webpage, also thinking about starting a new wineblog, if I got time for it (havent found any winenewb site’s)
    * Have got my page and Facebook account “pimped up” with WLTV and Thuder widgets (also spread the word on the book)
    * Also, the thing that have made me happy, is my students. I’m the youngest (21 years old) fulltime working teacher in any High School in Norway, and I have done something never been done before in our school. I’m training new chef’s and waiters, the new hopeful in the growing Norvegian restaurantbussines. What I have done is that I have gotten all the parents permission to let they’re children taste wine in scholl. I have used your show (like the Conan “episode”) to show them that the world of wine don’t need to be only the snobs, but something that can make they’re life richer. And these young one’s actually agree. So these hopeful will help spreading the Thunder, but what’s more importent, they have opened they’re eye’s for a so rich and interesting world. The wineworld!

    Thank you all!!!!

  25. February 8, 2008

    Brady B.

    Gary,

    To spread the THUNDER I had several ideas. The first isn’t finalized yet but I’m talking to the biggest wine store in town here (Springfield, MO) to let me put fliers on the doors and in their email magazine. They weren’t too keen on the idea at first since they ship wine across country too, but they are considering a flier about the blog only and a link to a web site that doesn’t directly link to your retail side of things (like You Tube). My second idea is to use the campus resources available at Missouri State. I’ve asked our radio station to tell the listening world about you and I’ve posted fliers on the boards at campus shuttle stops. I’m also trying to get a spot in the bi-monthly email sent out to 22,000 students. Lastly I’d like to start a student organization of Vaniacs but I still need a faculty adviser and approval from the student government association.

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