We make the business, the business does not make us...

I know that I talk a lot about us changing wrestling for the better, but well, that's the whole point to this blog.  Personally, I feel that things like UFC and reality TV have hurt our business over the past decade and the only people that can change that is us.  We make the business, the business does not make us.  Some people may disagree with that statement, but from an actual business standpoint, it is dead-on.  A business is only going to be as successful as the people that are in it, no matter what industry you are in.  Sure, a CEO can walk away from a company and that company will be fine, but the company makes sure that the new CEO is just as good as the last one, if not better.

The same logic can be used for the wrestling business; because it is only as good as the people that are in it.  Whether that is promoters, wrestlers, managers, referees, or anyone else in the back, everyone does their small part to make this business better, or worse.  I feel many people only focus on the bigger companies and not much on the smaller places.

I compare people in the wrestling business to voters; a small contribution is all part of a bigger picture.  It's like any other industry, where each person does their small part to make a larger product in the end.  So that is why I always talk about how important it is for even the smallest of indy wrestling company to treat things as a business, rather than a hobby.  If even one company in a state treats it like a joke and does not care about making money at all, then everyone else feels that it is okay to do that also.  We should be pushing each other to be better.  We should be working together to make money, rather than acting like one place is better than another.  NO promoter on the indies makes enough money to live comfortably, so technically, no one is better than anyone else, we are all equals.

I posted about all of this awhile back when I talked about running almost tiny territories.  The idea is to build an area, build the buzz about pro wrestling as a whole.  I said in that post that there is a power in numbers, and I really feel that many people do not realize that.  One person tells this person, then they tell someone, so on and so forth.  Put your pathetic excuse for an ego aside and work together man.

So I guess my point here is that each and every one of us in this business can make a difference somehow.  Figure out what that difference is that you can make, and do everything you can to help this business that we love.  Like I said, it is like being a voter, each person counts in the big picture.