My most successful book series
was rejected by my agent.
She thought it was so unmarketable;
she wouldn’t even pitch it
to publishers.
Believing in it,
I self published it
and I marketed the hell out of it.
One reason I did this
was to prove her wrong.
And I did.
Much of its success
was BECAUSE she rejected it.
“When George Martin
first met the Beatles and
became their producer,
he liked their sound and their energy,
but he didn’t think they could write songs.
So he licensed a song,
handed it to them and
had them record it.
John and Paul hated doing this,
so they asked if they could write one.
That became their first hit.
Faced with opposition and competition,
they became better songwriters.”
Prove the doubters wrong.
Show them you can make
your product/company/self a success.