How Important Are Relationships? 👫 (B2B Networking)

Posted on June 7, 2022June 7, 2022 by brianjpombo

Thoughts on the value of relationships and networking after Brian just recorded an upcoming podcast with Grants Pass local, Cat Bonney.

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How important is relationships?

Hi, I’m Brian Pombo. Welcome back to Brian J. Pombo Live.

Today, I wanted to discuss the concept of relationships in business specifically. So it’s all about being relationship reliant for me.

In fact, there are three pillars at BrianJPombo.com.

The first one I like talking about the most, right off the bat, at least, is being relationship reliant.

This is something that came later in life for me, even though I was surrounded by it, and the evidence was everywhere. It didn’t occur to me that the relationships you have the strength of the relationships, but even the loose ties that you have out there in life, or that one of the most important things possible.

That all business is based off of people, you know, like and trust, it’s based off of some form of relationship.

Now, sometimes you don’t necessarily have a relationship with the person, most of the products and services you use, that you spend money on, you don’t know the person behind it. But you have a relationship with that brand.

There is something there, someone has created something, put it forth, and you’ve taken it and exchanged it for money.

There’s a relationship there even at the most crass you know, just financial interaction, you know, even just that there’s still a relationship, and it goes on from there. The strongest relationship you have with someone the people that you paid the most amount of money on the most regular basis.

That’s some of the most powerful stuff and it can tell you something about even the things that you pay a small amount for. It all has to do with the same thing. It all comes back to some form of relationship.

I was reminded of this today because I had a really good podcast interview.

So I have a podcast that’s local. It’s called Grants Pass VIP. And what it does is it covers basically stories of movers and shakers in Josephine County, Oregon. And Grants Pass is the largest town here.

It’s named Grants Pass VIP, because that’s where most of the people will relate to it. Up this past year, about Yeah, about a year about this past year, I’ve been working very closely with the Chamber of Commerce.

Even though a good portion of that year, we weren’t even meeting in person. But meeting over over video chat. So I got to meet somebody that we had known each other kind of at a distance or name’s Cat Bonney.

Cat, she’s just a million different things in town. And she’s one of these people that I finally got to sit down and have an interview with for my podcast, this will be coming up. Not available yet if you’re watching this right away, but you’ll see it soon over at GrantsPassVIP.com.

Cat is a very interesting person, her entire life has been built on the idea of getting out there and making a difference and encouraging other people to do the same thing. And having her hands and a whole lot of different items.

But all around this concept of really making a difference for people and in doing things that that stirs her soul, not just a way to pay the bills, you know, obviously, there’s always that end of it, but you have to have things that really make a difference for you.

Even the short period of time we hung out today at the coffee shop, recording the podcast, even that short period of time I found it really interesting how useful her knowledge is. I mean, just she asked what she can do for me and I just tossed something out there.

And she threw some advice out that I know is gonna save me many hours, and many headaches. And so I thank her so much for that. That’s one simple, subtle relationship that I that I’ve had that I have that I share with her.

You can’t put a price tag on that. But at the same end, it’s going to profit me if you could put a price tag it’s going to profit me greatly over time. If nothing else in the saving of time just for a brief moment, a brief conversation.

These are the things that are true throughout. And if you’re looking to grow things, if you’re looking to look at the world differently, if you’re looking to think more like people who have something that you want out of life.

It comes back down to a relationship. My entire way of building my business for the past, you know, two-plus years, via podcasting, and via the book that I wrote, 9 Ways to Amazon-Proof Your Business.

These are things that that happened because of relationships because I connected with other people, sometimes at a distance will originally at a distance online with a lot of people.

And then also in person talking with people and going through it and wanting to reach out and meet certain people that I couldn’t find a way to get a conversation with until I could find a gift that I could offer them.

The gift in this situation was the Podcast, the podcast allows me to offer a gift of publicity to somebody.

In exchange, I get to meet this person to get to know them better, and find out if there’s anything that I can do in their life and maybe even learn something from them. Simple, simple concepts, these simple ideas, but it all comes back to the relationship.

Business is about other human beings. It’s about you and other human beings connecting. That’s all it is. And it doesn’t matter whether you’re making dog food, it doesn’t matter what you’re making. I don’t know, why do I always go back to dog food, it’s interesting.

Maybe it’s because I have no experience in the dog food market. And but for some reason, my mind always jumps to dog food when I’m thinking about things. It doesn’t matter what your industry is all a relationship based.

This is very difficult. If you have a task oriented mind, my mind is very much at least on the forefront is initially task oriented. I have a little bit of people orientation back there. But mostly it’s task oriented. And it took me many years to realize the practical benefit of relationships.

I hate to say it that was sounds weird, doesn’t it? If you think like a robot, it’s difficult to put it into words. But that’s a sadly that’s where I come from. So that’s all I got for today.

Go check out my book if you want to hear some more about about how to take relationships and take them to the next level and also meet people that you would have never met before. That can be really helpful to you.9 Ways to Amazon-Proof Your Business. You can get a free copy at AmazonProofBook.com.

AmazonProofBook.com.

And I’m going to be back here tomorrow talking about the second or the three pillars for BrianJPombo.com. Stay tuned for that, we’ll see.

In the meantime, get out there and let the magic happen.

Who’s Got Your Ear? 👂 (Average Of The Five People You Spend Time With In Business)

Posted on June 20, 2021June 20, 2021 by brianjpombo

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You’ll always spend time with family and friends, but in business, who are the top people you spend time with?

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Who’s got your ear?

Hi I’m Brian Pombo, welcome back to Brian J. Pombo Live.

I want to talk about who has your ear?

In other words, who are you listening to, who are you paying attention to, what are you paying attention to?

Because that one little thing can make all the difference in your life.

I mean, really, it’s the smallest things, it’s the thin threads that make such a huge difference. I was talking with a friend that I hadn’t spoken to for a while, and went to go visit him today, had all my kids with me. And we were just we’re kind of running some errands.

So I visited a friend, our minds were thinking about a lot of similar things. And one of the things we’re looking at is rentals. And I’m relatively new to the concept of having rentals and so forth. But I know a little bit about it, I have family that’s involved in it.

I have family that’s involved in vacation rentals. And he was in the process of building out one of his rental spaces.

And I had mentioned to him about all those my dad has vacation rentals and telling him about my experience. And I knew a little bit about Airbnb, I was one of the earliest people involved in Airbnb before it was a popular or well-known thing to do, I was renting apartment spaces, and so forth.

When I’d go on out on business, usually, we would grab an Airbnb somewhere, so it was always always a fun thing.

So it’s something I followed along with quite a bit. And we were calling back and forth. And I can tell at one point, he like something switch, she’s like, Oh, well, maybe I should look at making this vacation, rental.

And all of a sudden, something changed.

By the end of the time, when we’re getting ready to leave, he was saying thanks for mentioning that because that might make all the difference that could change how I’m going to be doing everything here, so to speak.

And it’s not like I set out to do anything like that. But one little concept, one little tweak, one little splinter in your mind can change everything, how you do things or how you look at things.

So you really got to pay attention to who you’re paying attention to who you’re surrounding yourself with, obviously, it’s that old adage about, you know, the top five or six people that you hang around with. If you take it just on an income basis, you take the top six people you hang around with, and you take all of your incomes, and you multiply, you add them together, and then you divide them up by the sum, you’ll end up with basically what most of you make on a yearly basis.

If you just take the annual incomes of everybody that we tend to fit whoever was around, and whoever we surround ourselves with.

So what are you plugging into?

Are you listening to podcasts?

Are you reading books?

Are you doing any other type of stimulation that is helping to change your thought patterns?

Helping to direct your mind in a positive direction?

Or in the direction that you want to go?

Are you doing that, and if not, why not?

Have you thought about it?

Are you considering it sit down and actually think about Okay, what are all the different things that I watch and listen to all throughout the day?

Who are the people that I hang around, at work and beyond?

Maybe you should look at plugging into some other areas, working with a mastermind, working with consultants plugging into some people listening to the right podcast.

So I’ve got a podcast out there that be great for most of you out there that are in business, especially if you’re an executive of your business or you’re the business owner. You’re in charge if you’re one of the decision-makers in your business. I got one for you.

It’s called Brian J. Pombo Live you’re watching it right now or you’re listening to it right now subscribe, set this thing to be an automatic thing.

We could start having a conversation you comment wherever you check this out at whether it be on YouTube, or Rumble, or on the podcast itself.

If you’re just getting the audio feed for this go to BrianJPombo.com, leave a comment and give me a question.

Let’s have a conversation back and forth. Let’s see where things go.

These types of things helpful if you do them consistently, but you got to be careful about who you’re surrounding yourself with.

So check that out.

Also check out my book, 9 Ways to Amazon-Proof Your Business. If you haven’t heard about it, you can get a free copy at AmazonProofBook.com.

We’ll be back here tomorrow night. In the meantime, get out there and let the magic happen.

Have You Ever Made A Business Friend On Purpose?

Posted on January 5, 2021January 5, 2021 by brianjpombo

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Some thoughts on long-time relationships and building them to strengthen your business and life.

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Have you ever made a business friend on purpose?

Hi I’m Brian Pombo, welcome back to Brian J. Pombo Live.

Tonight, I had a great experience. I’d like to thank my friend Joe, who’s also a viewer Joe Costomania and his fine family came in through town. They were heading up to Seattle, he’s from Hanford, California, they went up to Seattle and back, and they made this big long trip and they stayed here in town.

And they came out and hung out with the family for this for tonight and brought food and everything. So it was great. I’ve known Joe, since we were in the third grade, okay.

And is he has always been there. I mean, like always, like we didn’t even, we weren’t even like best friends right off the bat, it was just one of these things where we had known each other through grade school.

I moved away for two years, but then came back. But we knew each other through grade school, we got to know each other better and better year after year, we knew each other, we went to the same high school.

So we knew each other all throughout high school and hung out quite a bit. And then afterwards, even after high school, we spent a lot of time together. It was one of these things where we never quite lost track that every couple of years we’d we’d go we’d go quite a while without talking to each other.

But other than that we’ve always kept track of each other. And it’s just been one of those things that’s just endured. And it’s never been one of these things that has been forced, or, you know, there was never a need for it. It was just a friendship that happened. Most friendships happened by accident. And that’s what reminded me about what I want to talk about today.

Because I have a question for you.

And it’s a very interesting question, Have you ever seeked out a relationship to have with someone a business based relationship on purpose?

Have you ever done that?

All the best things happen by accident?

We know that but have you ever tried to do it on purpose?

Have you ever seeked someone out either as a mentor, or a guide, or an advisor, or somebody that you can work with directly, possibly a partner, somebody that you can discuss things, but you went out of your way to get in touch with them and befriend them, and attempt to basically bring them into your circle?

And kind of insert yourself into their circle in a sense?

Have you ever done that and how did it turn out?

I’d love to find out from the people that have done that or if you haven’t done that, why haven’t you done that?

Have you ever considered it?

Do you think that it’s fake?

Do you consider that kind of networking and kind of pushing yourself on people?

I’m curious what you think, especially if you’re not wanting someone from a person other than advice, if you’re wanting to be friends, for a business relationship, or at least for conversation?

Have you done that?

Leave a comment down below because I’d love to hear more about that I have seeked people out specifically on business issues, and they ended up having a long term friendship out of it. And now in my current field, as a business strategist, I work directly with people and that’s kind of what I do is I become people’s friends, in a sense. And then we take it from there and help untie the ideas that they have in order to create better businesses.

If that’s something you’re looking for, you want to find out more about you’re welcome to get a copy of my book, 9 Ways to Amazon-Proof Your Business. You get a free copy at AmazonProofBook.com.

It’s this book right here and you can go Go get yourself a free copy. It’s a short book, you can go check that out, gives you a little bit of information, and gives you an idea of where I’m coming from. And even if you don’t work with someone like me, I encourage you to go and find somebody that can help you untie all these ideas in your mind. And stop being a self milking cow as Dean Jackson calls it. Which I’ve done a video about.

You can go check that out over at BrianJPombo.com. Go check out the self milking cow video. Really interesting stuff from Dean Jackson, who’s a who’s a great marketing mind out there. Anyways, we’ll be back here tomorrow. In the meantime, you get out there and let the magic happen.