
Today, Gary Vaynerchuk’s new book, “The Thank You Economy” is being released – and Chapter 12 is devoted to our San Francisco dental practice!


Best of the Bay, a San Francisco Bay Area television show (seen on KRON Chanel 4, our local NBC affiliate station) that spotlights local businesses, nominates Dr. Irena Vaksman as the Best Cosmetic San Francisco Dentist for the following neighborhoods: financial district, SOMA, Marina and Pacific Heights.

On Friday, July 30th, I was fortunate to be on a panel with other SMBs at the Social Currency CrunchUp, sponsored by TechCrunch. As a San Francisco dentist, a local-centric business (as compared to some other national brands also on the panel), I hope that our perspective was helpful for local businesses looking to capitalize on social media. The event itself was great, and I got to chat it up, and learn from, some very interesting folks. But it was the Grammy award winning rapper, Chamillionaire (and his entrourage) that stood out from the crowd.

First, some background: Loic Le Meur is the founder of Seesmic, an awesome twitter client. Loic also co-founded (with his wife, Geraldine) LeWeb, which is the…"largest and most important Internet and technology conference in Europe and is becoming a must attend event" (so says Michael Arrington, the founder of TechCrunch; a preeminent tech blog). After a …