{"id":16030,"date":"2019-02-10T21:21:24","date_gmt":"2019-02-11T02:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobbiejrae.com\/home\/?p=16030"},"modified":"2025-10-22T16:57:29","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T20:57:29","slug":"marketing-bj-rae-eagle-encouragement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bobbiejrae.com\/home\/marketing-bj-rae-eagle-encouragement\/","title":{"rendered":"Marketing 101"},"content":{"rendered":"

What can a person learn in Marketing 101?\u00a0 Here is the first lesson\u2026<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Today at the RV park, I walked our two dogs individually.<\/p>\n

As Simba and I headed down the street, a young couple approached him.\u00a0 \u201cHello, cutie!\u201d the man said to Simba.<\/p>\n

These people have much darker skin than our family has.\u00a0 And, based on the bumpers stickers I had seen on their car yesterday, they also have different political beliefs from our family. But Simba did not care.\u00a0 He just loved him all the same.\u00a0 After spending a few minutes with Simba, the couple agreed that they had to have a Morkie just like Simba. They wanted to spend more time with our cute little Morkie, and I told them where our RV is in the park\u2014even though they are different from us. I knew that being kind to them was the best way to persuade them to share our beliefs, if we decided to try to do so.<\/p>\n

Then I walked Chico.\u00a0 When we were almost back to RV, a Canadian man named Gordie who lives across the street from us stopped to chat.\u00a0 We chatted for a while, and Chico was fine with Gordie.\u00a0 But then another man exited Gordie’s trailer with a beer can in his hand, obviously drunk.\u00a0 The second man was also different from both Gordie and Chico\u2019s own parents because we do not get drunk.\u00a0 Chico let him know he did not like him.\u00a0 He immediately began growling, barking, and generally making a fuss.\u00a0 In fact, he also fussed at the Canadian man he had cared about previously after the second man came out.\u00a0 We quickly agreed to finish this conversation later, when neither Simba or Chico was around.<\/p>\n

That young couple visited our RV two hours later.\u00a0 When they visited, we sat outside and chatted for hours about everything from medical problems to politics. Because we had been kind to them, they actively listened to our views\u2014even though our views are radically different from theirs.\u00a0 Before they left, they said they would seriously consider what we had shared with them about our beliefs.<\/p>\n

Later this afternoon, my husband and I were out walking without the dogs, and we ran into the couple again.\u00a0 We stopped to chat again, of course. They asked more questions about our beliefs, and before leaving they said something amazing.\u00a0 They said that they need to remove the bumper stickers on their vehicle.<\/p>\n

If I was your instructor in \u201cMarketing 101\u201d, I would make these points about this story.<\/p>\n