People That Had an Effect on You and Your Business, Who Are Not Marketers

Many peo­ple influ­ence us per­son­ally and in our busi­ness val­ues. The big dog mar­keters that have been doing it for years and are rak­ing in the dough, can teach us a lot. And some we even men­tor with. Because we believe in what they are doing and they are extremely inspi­ra­tional for us.

There are also other peo­ple besides mar­keters that have had an influ­ence in our lives. Includ­ing our busi­ness val­ues. Fam­ily most cer­tainly is influ­en­tial on us. One way or another. But what about other influ­ences? Other peo­ple that are not mar­keters or family?

I have a great pas­sion for music and the peo­ple that make it. And even though they don’t seem to have much to do with run­ning a busi­ness, they still had an effect on my val­ues. Here’s an example:

Perseverance

There is a band called Die Form (fore­warn­ing, they are very dif­fer­ent if you decide to check them out). They are from France. And it’s basi­cally just one guy run­ning the whole show. His name is Philipe Fochet. And his lit­tle cre­ation, Die Form, has been around since the late 80’s. Now here is why he has had an influ­ence on my values.

When he started out, he did every­thing. Wrote the music, pro­duced it, made the art for it, every­thing. And he did this for years. Only within the last few years has he hired on oth­ers to help him pro­duce the albums.

He basi­cally started from scratch and built his own project to suc­cess. Now he has a very devoted fol­low­ing and many other artis­tic venues that he works on. This is a mantra we can put towards our busi­ness as mar­keters and lead­ers. Never give up and always keep going for­ward. Work your way through the hard times and you will succeed.

Extreme Pas­sion

Another per­son, that I’m sure many of you will have heard of, had a big part in my life as well. His name was Steve Irwin. Many of you will rec­og­nize him from the show “The Croc­o­dile Hunter”. Now a lot of peo­ple thought he was pretty goofy. But it was because of that he was suc­cess­ful. In a dif­fer­ent way.

His goal with the show and his zoo in Aus­tralia was to be able to show the beauty of the nat­ural world. The liv­ing breath­ing ani­mals of nature that hold such awe for him. And he did do that, no mat­ter how goofy he seemed. He was like that because of his pas­sion. He is one of the most pas­sion­ate peo­ple I have ever seen. And that always got to me.

I’ve loved ani­mals all my life, and when that show started, I was amazed by his extreme pas­sion. It was con­ta­gious and it’s some­thing that we can take into many parts of our life, includ­ing our busi­ness. Pas­sion for what we do.

There are more peo­ple, obvi­ously, that have had an effect on my life. And in turn my busi­ness val­ues. But these two have some of the most. All kinds of peo­ple can effect us and our out­look, per­son­ally and in business.

Who else has effected your busi­ness val­ues that you didn’t expect? It might even be peo­ple you never thought of.

~Chris

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