The chef that grew up with the grandma who cooks tends to always beat the chef that went to the culinary institute. It's in the blood.

Without hustle, talent will only carry you so far.

Now, if you truly understand how marketing works today, you know there is no individual six-month campaign; there's only the 365-day campaign, during which you produce new content daily.

Through EdgeRank, Facebook weighs likes, comments, and shares, but it currently does not give greater weight to click-throughs or any other action that leads to sales.

If you do not care about your end user immensely, especially in the next few years, your brand will die.

The reason I was able to grow my business was that every day, after producing 30 minutes of wine television, I spent 15 hours a day replying to every single person's e-mail and every single person's Twitter @ reply.

If you know exactly what you want to be, you need to spend as much time as possible with people who are actually that already.