A marketing executive who built a company fast enough to make the Inc. 5000 list explains why awards prove you can do something, but they don't change who you are. External validation feels good. It doesn't remake you.
So for me, we just won the Inc. 5000, one of the fastest growing marketing companies in the United States. And it was a very cool award because I started off as a kid in the basement, literally just learning marketing. Ideally wanted to do it for myself in the beginning for a prototyping company I started and then ended up doing it for other people. You know, it's super interesting seeing because I like these awards behind me. I used to be like, I just want ClickFunnels, right? Like that was, that was the shit back in the day. And then now we're winning the Inc. 5000 and now we got, you know, some other stuff cooking. GHL Diamond. Like there's, there's these awards and like before I just was like, you know, I just want one of these. And now it's like I have, you know, all these and they really don't mean shit. Like, it's just, it just proves that I know what I'm doing. But at the end of the day, like, it didn't change me. It doesn't change who you are.
