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Entrepreneurs Who Inspired Me
Posted 13th May 2009 at 05:00 PM by GT
Entrepreneurs Who Inspired Me
Hello, Warriors: (Also posted at GT Bulmer Web Bizz Blog with additional links and info)
My thanks to Mary Brand, a fellow marketer from the Entrepreneur Forums who got me reminiscing about successful entrepreneurs who inspired me.
Mary posted a question in the Entrepreneur Forums at EvanCarmichael.com asking forum members who or what inspired them to get into sales and marketing. I posted a response there, then decided I would post it here, too, with additional notes and information. Why not? It’s all part of my personal story.
It seems I have always been interested in sales and marketing, although I didn't start seriously developing my skills until I was in my 30s.
It all started when I was about 12 or 13 and a friend and I set up a Kool-Aid stand one summer. We made some good sales, but I’m sure we probably ended up being our own best customers!
After that, I began noticing all those advertisements in comic books enticing kids with visions of making easy money selling garden seeds. I was interested, but since I was Canadian and the ads all had United States addresses, I never followed through. Today, the distance and international border mean nothing, but “way back then,” the U.S.of A. was a faraway, foreign land. That's the way it seemed to a kid, anyway.
In my early 20s, I became intrigued by all the mail-order business ads in magazines. The first training book I ever bought was called Plan For Mail Order Profits (revised edition), by David G. Baron, copyright 1975, Executive Business Institute. I seldom look at it now (except when writing about it in blogs and forums), but I still have it sitting handy on my business bookshelf.
Another notable entrepreneur who inspired me was self-made millionaire E. Joseph Cossman. Although I did later pick up one of his marketing manuals (How to Make More Money in Your Own Business), I first learned of him from his marketing infomercials on television in the 80s.
In those infomercials, one of Cossman's most notable students was Bob Hall of Ontario, Canada, who had become known as the Wheelbarrow King of North America. Bob acquired the domestic marketing rights to a line of wheelbarrows from a foreign supplier and achieved great success.
Eventually, I met Bob in person. We worked together in the mid-90s promoting JewelWay International, a popular network marketing company of the day. We enjoyed success for a few years until JewelWay went the way that so many networking companies seem to go.
By that time, I had become an avid student of personal development books and audio programs. After reading Napoleon Hill and Dale Carnegie in the 80s, I was introduced to the inspirational and motivational works of Earl Nightingale, Anthony Robbins, Steven Covey and Brian Tracy.
As a leading authority on personal and professional development, Brian Tracy remains the source I most often turn to first for entrepreneurial inspiration and motivation.
It was no surprise that when the opportunity presented itself in March, I became an affiliate for Brian Tracy products and started promoting them on my StarrBizz.com website.
More recently, I became an iLearningGlobal affiliate at the invitation of fellow entrepreneur Evan Carmichael, of EvanCarmichael.com.
Brian Tracy is the Chief Learning Officer with iLearningGlobal. The company offers an incredible selection of personal development products in a variety of formats. Evan and I feature iLearningGlobal products in the Entrepreneur University section of his EvanCarmichael.com website.
There have been numerous entrepreneurs who inspired me over the years. The short list presented in this web biz blog post simply highlights a few of them.
GT
* iLearningGlobal: Brian Tracy - Learn from the Experts!
* Think Green 4 Life - It's ALL about the environment!
* Niche Power Group: Personal Web Biz Mentoring
* StarrBizz.com, Web Biz Opportunities | Web Bizz Blog, News and Views
* Follow Me On Twitter: gtbulmer | StarrBizzcom | ThinkGreen4Life
Hello, Warriors: (Also posted at GT Bulmer Web Bizz Blog with additional links and info)
My thanks to Mary Brand, a fellow marketer from the Entrepreneur Forums who got me reminiscing about successful entrepreneurs who inspired me.
Mary posted a question in the Entrepreneur Forums at EvanCarmichael.com asking forum members who or what inspired them to get into sales and marketing. I posted a response there, then decided I would post it here, too, with additional notes and information. Why not? It’s all part of my personal story.
It seems I have always been interested in sales and marketing, although I didn't start seriously developing my skills until I was in my 30s.
It all started when I was about 12 or 13 and a friend and I set up a Kool-Aid stand one summer. We made some good sales, but I’m sure we probably ended up being our own best customers!
After that, I began noticing all those advertisements in comic books enticing kids with visions of making easy money selling garden seeds. I was interested, but since I was Canadian and the ads all had United States addresses, I never followed through. Today, the distance and international border mean nothing, but “way back then,” the U.S.of A. was a faraway, foreign land. That's the way it seemed to a kid, anyway.
In my early 20s, I became intrigued by all the mail-order business ads in magazines. The first training book I ever bought was called Plan For Mail Order Profits (revised edition), by David G. Baron, copyright 1975, Executive Business Institute. I seldom look at it now (except when writing about it in blogs and forums), but I still have it sitting handy on my business bookshelf.
Another notable entrepreneur who inspired me was self-made millionaire E. Joseph Cossman. Although I did later pick up one of his marketing manuals (How to Make More Money in Your Own Business), I first learned of him from his marketing infomercials on television in the 80s.
In those infomercials, one of Cossman's most notable students was Bob Hall of Ontario, Canada, who had become known as the Wheelbarrow King of North America. Bob acquired the domestic marketing rights to a line of wheelbarrows from a foreign supplier and achieved great success.
Eventually, I met Bob in person. We worked together in the mid-90s promoting JewelWay International, a popular network marketing company of the day. We enjoyed success for a few years until JewelWay went the way that so many networking companies seem to go.
By that time, I had become an avid student of personal development books and audio programs. After reading Napoleon Hill and Dale Carnegie in the 80s, I was introduced to the inspirational and motivational works of Earl Nightingale, Anthony Robbins, Steven Covey and Brian Tracy.
As a leading authority on personal and professional development, Brian Tracy remains the source I most often turn to first for entrepreneurial inspiration and motivation.
It was no surprise that when the opportunity presented itself in March, I became an affiliate for Brian Tracy products and started promoting them on my StarrBizz.com website.
More recently, I became an iLearningGlobal affiliate at the invitation of fellow entrepreneur Evan Carmichael, of EvanCarmichael.com.
Brian Tracy is the Chief Learning Officer with iLearningGlobal. The company offers an incredible selection of personal development products in a variety of formats. Evan and I feature iLearningGlobal products in the Entrepreneur University section of his EvanCarmichael.com website.
There have been numerous entrepreneurs who inspired me over the years. The short list presented in this web biz blog post simply highlights a few of them.
GT
* iLearningGlobal: Brian Tracy - Learn from the Experts!
* Think Green 4 Life - It's ALL about the environment!
* Niche Power Group: Personal Web Biz Mentoring
* StarrBizz.com, Web Biz Opportunities | Web Bizz Blog, News and Views
* Follow Me On Twitter: gtbulmer | StarrBizzcom | ThinkGreen4Life
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