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Lindley - Egan Wedding at Memorial Drive Presbyterian and Paraiso Maravilla in 2009

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Julian St. Pierre - Genius Entreprenuer; Generous Mentor- Rest in Peace


This evening, my wife told me of very sad news. Our good friend from New Orleans, Julian St. Pierre (center picture) of Studio Vieux Carre passed away in his sleep. Julian was a special individual.

While I am unsure of the details of his passing, I am very sure of my admiration for this man. I met Julian 8 yrs ago when Julie and I were in our 2nd yr of business. We lacked aim and artistic direction for our work. We were holding a booth at The Houston Bridal Extravaganza. The show was a mild success by that point. We were about to call it quits when it occurred to me to pull back the curtain and meet the booth behind us. The booth behind us was "Custom Video by Terry", which now is known as Studio Vieux Carre. That one instant changed the direction of our business. That instant was meeting Terry and Julian. Terry's artistic talent and Juliannes marketing genius were what we modeled ourselves after. Julian was unusually generous with his ideas. I loved how confident, even "a little cocky" as he would say, that he was. He was such a great energy to be around. I will miss him.

In my life, I have a handful of mentors that I learn a great deal from. Julian is in my top 5 or 10 for sure. He taught me so much about marketing a small business, in particular wedding video business. He was talented. He was nimble. He was very smart.

The last conversation I had with Julian, was about 6 months ago. We talked for 55 minutes! We would try to keep in touch about 1-2x/yr. I always had tons of questions for him about how he marketed his business and many other aspects of wedding and event video. To me, he is the king of wedding and event video. His business model is the best around. And, amazingly, he always continued to improve it, evolve it. With the creation of Collaborative Organizations like "In Focus" . He was God's gift to small business, in particular documentary video. He helped all the artists make money and keep from starving.

http://www.infocusvideoevent.com/

Funny thing, in that last conversation, Terry had to pull him off of the phone. He just loved to talk about marketing, video, and business. What a passionate guy!


I would like to know when the memorial service is. I owe a lot to Julian. Much more than I ever got a chance to tell him. I'm sure there are many in the Wedding and Event Video Production business who could say the same.

Julie and I will be praying for God's peace on Terry, her son, Joe, and their family. Julian, thanks to your enduring generosity with your ideas, your spirit lives on. Thank you for being part of our lives. God bless.

Jack
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