What Entrepreneurs Can Learn from James Cameron (Part 1)
What Entrepreneurs Can Learn from James Cameron (Part 1)
James Cameron just made another billion dollars with Avatar: Fire and Ash.
And if he tried to run your business using the same playbook?
You’d be filing for bankruptcy in six months.
I know that sounds ridiculous. The man has created some of the highest-grossing films in history: Titanic. Avatar. He’s a visionary, a technical genius, and clearly knows how to make money at a scale most of us will never touch.
But here’s the thing…
His success comes despite his business instincts, not because of them. And the mistakes he keeps making are the same ones that quietly kill entrepreneurs every day.
Let’s start with the first one.
Mistake #1: He Thinks His Product Will Sell Itself
Avatar: Fire and Ash uses some of the most advanced visual effects ever created. The underwater motion-capture alone is revolutionary. By technical standards, it’s a masterpiece.
And the marketing?
Almost invisible.
Cameron is falling into one of the oldest traps in business: believing that if you build something amazing, people will just show up.
They won’t.
It doesn’t matter how good your product is if nobody knows it exists.
Let me give you a comparison that might sting: McDonald’s.
Nobody goes there expecting gourmet food. But their marketing is so consistent, so visible, and so predictable that billions of people show up anyway.
Great product with weak marketing? You lose.
Average product with great marketing? You win.
Cameron is betting on “trust me, it’s amazing.” That’s not strategy. That’s hope.
And hope doesn’t pay bills.
What to do instead:
Treat marketing like oxygen. If people don’t hear about you, see you, or think about you, you don’t exist. Put as much creativity into your visibility as you do into your product. Invisible businesses don’t survive.
In Part 2, I’ll show you the next two mistakes that make this even more dangerous, and how they might be hurting your business right now.
If you already know visibility is your weak spot, let’s fix it.
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Proactive, Productive, and Profitable,
Dino