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How Many Different Ways Are You Showing Up?

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Thoughts on differentiation while doing what you love from a recent podcast interviews with the Corn Man. 🌽👨

First Episode with Corn Man ➡️ http://offthegridbiz.com/charles-wiley-corn-man/

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How many different ways are you showing up?

I’m Brian Pombo, welcome back to Brian J. Pombo Live. Today I’m going to talk about my friend Charles Wiley, and his book, and album and everything else revolving around his Corn Man project.

A couple days ago, I received these in the mail, I wanted to make sure you saw them.

Check this out. This is the Corn Man t-shirt. I got a copy of the original Corn Man book, Story Of The Corn Man.

This is Chapter one.

Now chapter two just came out.

Now, what’s Corn Man?

Corn Man’s a project. And you can find out about this by listening to my podcast Off The Grid Biz Podcast where you can find it offthegridbiz.com.

And I’ll put a link in the description going to the first episode that I interviewed Charles.

Well, we just had him on a recent episode, well….I just recently had him back to talk about his chapter two book that came out. And I’ll get into it in a second.

Well, what ended up happening was, Charles is a musician, right. How this whole thing started, is he fell into the situation where he started researching the whole idea of how corn is and everything that we eat, that the corn lobby has been extremely good at getting corn into everything, to our from our fuel to everything we eat, to a lot of things we were and everything else, they just they found a way to similar to the soy industry and found a way to fit corn into everything.

And so this inspired him to want to talk about this idea and how he knew how to do that, up to that point was through his music.

So what he did was he put together an album, he had some he had a piece of art put together by a friend. And this was the original art is him as a stock of corn. And then it kind of inspired him to make this whole album that kind of and he found a story developing.

So what did he end up doing, he made a children’s book out of it.

And that’s what this is. It’s the story of Corn Man.

And it’s a series of books. This is the initial book about how a regular everyday person ends up being turned into this Corn Man like creature. And it’s very interesting.

I wanted to point something out. He took an idea. He plugged it into something he already knew how to do. And then he tried something else and put it into an area that he had never….he’d never written any children’s books before.

But he got together with his wife and she helped him develop a storyline and develop the script for it. And he got together with Andy Westhoff. His wife’s name is Deirdre by the way.

And he got together with Andy Westhoff, who did the illustrations for this and also did illustrations on the second one that just came out, you find these in Amazon.com, under The Story of Corn Man.

So the story of corn man, the original and then chapter two. And then on top of that, he made an audio book for his original book he’s doing he’s doing it, he came out with merchandise and everything else why I met him at the Mother Earth news Fair, last year in Albany, Oregon. And so we hit it off.

And I was inspired by his enthusiasm for his project and his ability to take one simple idea and how to put and his put it out there in a million different ways, and continues to come up with new ways to put out the same thing, including ideas in the future, possibly doing something animated or something else.

I mean, there’s so many ways that you can take this and develop it and find an audience for it or multiple audiences for it. So it’s really interesting stuff, great conversations, watch for that second show when it comes out.

And I just want to thank Charles for sending me a T-shirt and a book.

And I want to inspire you to take your ideas, get them out there work with somebody who has some experience in the areas is trying to work these into don’t just go one direction, don’t just do the same old thing that you’ve always done.

Try and hit multi medias, try and hit multiple forms of media and to even just to reach the same audience. If you can do that. You it creates multiple dimensions to your work.

And that makes you more real to the average person out there, especially if most of the work that you do is online, try doing something physical, so that it adds a whole nother dimension, like I said, so. Hopefully that makes sense to you.

If you would like to know some other ways to be able to capture your audience and to really stand out in your competitive space. Check out my book, 9 Ways to Amazon-Proof Your Business. You get a free copy at AmazonProofBook.com. We’ll be back here tomorrow night. In the meantime, get out there and learn Let the magic happen.

What 1 Thing Would Explode Your Business?

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Justin Lair & John DeSpain – Fiber Light Fire Starters

What one thing would explode your business.

Hi I’m Brian Pombo welcome back to Brian J. Pombo Live coming to you every day from Grants Pass Oregon.

Today we’re going to discuss what is the one thing that would totally blow your business out of the water in a good way. What would make it completely explode and give you a whole lot of momentum to be able to run off of. There’s one example I wanted to bring up with you and this is an example that came up in conversation with Justin Lair and John DeSpain of Fiber Light Fire Starters.

Fiber Light Fire Starters is a company out of Klamath Falls, which is not that far away here from Grants Pass. And I got to know them because they were at The Mother Earth News Fair in Albany, Oregon that I went to. We’ve got all of these episodes on The Off The Grid Biz Podcast interviewing people that we met there.

Well we didn’t meet them there, but we’re told about them afterwards. Janice Cox of Natural Home At Home told us about them and so we track them down and got an interview with them.

Found out what brought them to that same spot and found out a whole bunch about their business experience and how they’ve built up this one product business into multiple products and into a growing business.

One of the amazing concepts that Justin brought out was this idea that they, they had a huge boom as soon as they found the way to get into subscription boxes.

Now do you know what subscription boxes are?

These are those things that you subscribe to in a certain topic and you get a box over and over again every month, usually it’s monthly, and you get a box in the mail with whole bunch of products from different companies that have to do with that one subject.

I can’t remember all the different names for all the ones out there, but one of the most popular ones that I’ve heard of is the one that people use who are into doodling and scribbling and art.

So they’ll get one that has all these artistic things in it that you could use.

I’m sorry, I don’t know. I don’t know the terms or anything. And it’s late, so my brain’s not working.

But you get the idea, these subscription boxes you buy, you get on a monthly basis and they come in the mail with a whole bunch of stuff.

The subscription boxes, nothing more. In most cases, many of these, they don’t make anything of their own. Most of the time they find other companies that are producing products in that niche and they get new materials to be able to into their boxes and then the boxes get sent on to the people who are subscribing.

It’s a great concept in general.

Justin and John got into all got their fire starter products into all of the subscription boxes having to do with outdoors and here’s why it’s important and here’s how they were able to find it.

They knew who their audience was, they knew who their ideal audience was.

If you know who your ideal audience is and if they happen to have subscription boxes, like there’s many, many outdoors subscription boxes.

I can’t remember the number that Justin told me, but go listen to the episode where he discusses this.

The fact that they understood who their ideal market was allowed them to find this area that most people wouldn’t even think of as these subscription boxes and be able to get in to them and that allowed them to find their crowd. So who is your crowd? If you know who your crowd is, if you know what your niche is, if you know the people that love your product or service or would enjoy it, find out how to get to them more often.

They were able to find subscription boxes.

It’s a great way to be able to introduce themselves to new people.

They also found that trade shows worked out really well.

Trade shows the ones that worked out the best for the ones that were specifically in the outdoors niche. So these are all concepts and ideas, but it all comes back to the who, I was having this discussion with my friend Vinny earlier today.

It all starts with the who.

The more you understand who your audience is, the easier it is to figure out how to get to them and what to say to them and really what to sell them. You know, whether it’s services or products.

If you’re going to be expanding your line at all, the most important piece to know is the who your market, who is your market, who are they?

Go listen to that episode with Justin and John.

It’s great.

It’s one of the latest episodes on there, at the time of this recording. Go and listen to it at OffTheGridBiz.com, the direct link is in the description.

And if you’d like to be able to sit back and really study the who from from another person’s perspective of your business and really be able to to pin that down and be able to expand how you get to them. Then let’s talk.

Go to BrianJPombo.com and click on the How to Grow My Business. Or if you’re in the self-reliance field, like Justin and John, go and check out DreamBizChat.com. That link is also in the description, and that happens has to do with the dream business transformation.

You’ll learn all about it by going to that site, so hope you have a great diet. Get out there and let the magic happen.

Life Goals Relate to Business Profits?

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Rick & Elara Bowman – Backyard Green Films: Part 1
Rick & Elara Bowman – Backyard Green Films: Part 2

So how do your life goals relate to your business profits?

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

Today we’re going to be discussing a conversation that I had on my podcast with Rick & Elara Bowman of Backyard Green Films. And you can listen to that conversation, it’s been split up into two episodes over at offthegridbiz.com.

The links are in the description to those two episodes, part one and part two.

That’s Rick & Elara Bowman.

Now they have started up a company called Backyard Green Films and they produce films straight out of their backyard.

I mean, it’s all done homemade. It’s all done with all their own equipment. Self-funded where they’re building documentaries.

They’ve already made documentaries before.

Right now they’re in the process of finishing up this documentary on the Holstein Dilemma, which is….well, I won’t ruin it for you.

Go and listen to the podcasts about that conversation where they actually discuss what their whole movie is about.

But the piece I wanted to bring to you here today is their concept of real life goals.

How they’ve created a whole lifestyle and it isn’t what many people would consider absolutely ideal.

It’s not about the ideal amount of money that you bring in or the perfect life.

It is more like what do we want to do?

What would be the funnest thing to do?

What would be the most fulfilling thing to do in our life and how can we do that and still hit all the practical points that we know we have to do. We gotta be able to pay the bills, gotta be able to do all those things.

How do we do that and make this work?

They’ve found a way to be able to do it and it’s not about making a certain amount of money.

It’s about having the certain lifestyle that you’re after.

I think that’s one of the most inspiring messages that they bring to these two episodes that they fill up over at offthegridbiz.com. It’s the Off the Grid Biz Podcast.

Go and listen to those two episodes and I think it’ll give you a perspective of how you can design your life.

Don’t get caught up on a specific number of how much money you need to make every month.

Yeah, that can be helpful in terms of the long run, but in the short run, you gotta be willing to work within the parameters of what you got in front of you and we’ve only got a short period of time here on earth.

You gotta work with what you’ve got and still be able to make a difference and still do what you’re passionate about and get out there and travel and do what all the things that you want to do.

It doesn’t take a million dollars, multi-millions of dollars to do some amazing things with your life and these are two people that are doing some incredible things.

I got to meet them over at the Mother Earth News Fair, in Albany, Oregon, where we got to meet so many people.

This is part of the series that we’ve put out all on the Mother Earth News Fair. People that we met there and all their interesting stories and how all of that relates back to business and it can be helpful to you, so go and listen to that audio.

You know, within the next week I’m going to be discussing some other really cool things that don’t have anything to do with the podcast.

One of them is a movie that I just finished tonight.

Now if you happen to have Netflix, I’m going to suggest you watch a movie called, and this is funny.

It’s called, Dolomite Is My Name.

This is with Eddie Murphy in it.

If you go and you watch this, it is based on a true real life story of somebody that came from nothing and built an entire persona and built an entire business out of it.

I’ve got to talk about how this relates back to your business.

Now, just to warn you, it’s extremely vulgar.

It’s extremely outrageous and not for kids, but if you can handle that, go and watch, Dolomite Is My Name and we’re going to be talking about that next week.

So I’ll give you some time to watch it.

I don’t want to have any spoilers, but it’s based on a true story and I think it’s actually inspiring and there’s a lot of great lessons in there that you can use and fit directly back into your business.

So if you’d like to be able to work with me and be able to talk some more about how these principles fit into your business, go to BrianJPombo.com and look at the options there.

Also, if you are in the self-reliance field, like Rick & Elara are, go to DreamBizChat.com. That link is also in the description DreamBizChat.com.

We’ll give you the chance to have a free Dream Business Transformation with me only. Take 60 minutes.

Go and check that out over at DreamBizChat.com.

Hey, come on back. Every day I’m doing these daily videos where we discuss another principle, another strategy, or another tactic on how to be able to stand out with your business.

I’m happy to have you here and we’ll see you next time.

Get out there and let the magic happen.

Who Is Your Tribe?

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Uncle Mud – Natural Building Chieftain

Who is your tribe?

Hi, I’m Brian Pombo welcome back to Brian J. Pombo Live. Coming to you live from Grants Pass Oregon. Today we’re going to be talking about your tribe, the group of people that you consider, customers, clients, fans, supporters, so on and so forth.

Who are they? What do they have to do?

Do you actually have a group that follow you in a sense that consider you their one and only way in your space?

Before we get deep into that, I want to promote DreamBizChat.com for all business owners, entrepreneurs, executives of businesses that are in the self-reliance field, meaning you have products and services that help people to become more self-reliant.

If you are looking to take your business from where it is to where you want it to be and you just need help as far as developing a path, a long-term strategy in order to get there, whether it’s in six months, whether it’s in five years, do you have a step-by-step path on how to get where you’re looking to go, especially if you’re a successful business and you’re looking to scale up?

Well, go to DreamBizChat.com watch the video there and see if it’s something that you’d be interested in because I’m offering for possibly a short period of time, a free conversation with me where I will help you develop or at least start your dream business transformation.

What’s it all about?

Go to DreamBizChat.com and check it out. The link is in the description.

Now let’s talk about tribes.

Oftentimes when people are putting together their business, they focus it almost solely around the concept of what their business is as a service or a product and they focus on developing that service and product as opposed to developing who that product is for.

That’s why most of the things I talk about, I take all the way back to focusing back on your perspective, client and customer. You’ve got to think about them as much as possible first because that’s where most of your, your marketing is going to lead you to.

That’s where most of your communications are going to lead you to. Any focus that you have back onto growing your business is gonna have to come back to the WHO.

One of my three pillars that I focus on is called relationship reliant, which means you got to have a relationship in a sense. Even if you don’t actually know who they are, you have to have a relationship with your prospective customers.

You have to put yourself out there either personally or as a brand or as a team of brand or a team of people that are producing a brand. So you really gotta put it out there.

This all comes back to a conversation that I had. I’m sorry, I’m getting distracted. My wife is texting me on my phone while I am attempting to do some form of communication with you.

So let me come back. This all comes back to a conversation that I had with a guy named Uncle Mud.

Seriously, this is what he goes by. Uncle Mud, his real name’s Chris McClellan, but he somehow he picked up this moniker and we talk about it on the show that he’s known as Uncle Mud because he has gotten good at natural building.

So that’s when they put buildings together, made out of what most people will consider useless junk and also mud and something called cob, which is an Adobe like substance of mud. It’s clay and and Straw and so forth that you put together.

He knows all about this stuff. He’s learned how to do it really well and he shows people how to build structures out of it, including a rocket mass heaters, which you’ve never heard of.

It’s worth looking into. It’s really interesting. Pizza ovens, stoves, new and full on houses and cottages all out of very simple items. And his message is much more deeper than mud. It has to do with developing your life and one of the main aspects that we talk about in our conversation is developing a community.

Now, some of this stuff has happened accidentally or has happened serendipitously for him, but you can take these concepts and use it yourself. So think about that.

Go out there and listen to this episode of the off the grid Biz podcast. This conversation I have with uncle mud, that link is also in the description or you can go to off the grid is.com for the Off the Grid Biz Podcast.

I believe it’s podcast number 22. I don’t have it right in front of me but I think that’s where it is. Go check it out. Conversation with Chris McClellan, also known as Uncle Mud. Really great guy. Really interesting conversation.

Tomorrow, I mentioned this quite a few episodes ago, I got a piece of mail that is bringing all types of ideas into my mind on, on the how you should be running your business.

What’s a piece of mail have to do with your business?

Well, come on back tomorrow and you’ll see. So thanks for coming. Get out there and let the magic happen.

What Does “Success” Mean?

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Scott Smith – Earth 2 Earth Compost Pail

So what does success mean?

Hi I’m Brian Pombo welcome back to Brian J. Pombo Live coming to you live from Las Vegas of all places and today we’re going to be talking a little bit about the meaning of the word success.

First, I would just like to implore you, if you are a business owner or an executive that’s in the self reliance field, meaning you have products and services that help people to become more self-reliant. You’re someone I’d like to talk to. Go to DreamBizChat.com link is in the description, but you can type it in yourself. DreamBizChat.com there’s an eight and a half minute video on that site. It’s all free. You go watch it. I’m not even going to put a cookie on your page so that you just keep seeing ads for me or anything like that. There no ads currently on that page, but go and check it out.

If you’re interested in what I’m talking about on that page, it’s a chance to be able to talk to me directly about you and your business.

Where are you?

Where do you see yourself going?

So go to DreamBizChat.com and check it out. Let me know what you think.

Success. You could go and look up the definition. I don’t have it right here in front of me. Go look up the definition and Google of what success means, but it’s a pretty relative definition. It really is. I think a lot of us especially if you, if you’re in America, you may have a very standard view of success. It may revolve around money, it may revolve around prosperity, but really success is completely relative term. If you really think about it so much so that it really doesn’t have a good definition.

There’s a preacher that I know of that I heard talk about this before and he said that success doesn’t exist. And when you have something that’s so loosely defined as success, then it’s kind of true. It doesn’t really exist. It isn’t a specific thing. But you can always define it. You can always call it whatever you want and do you, and it can be whatever you want it to be. In the end.

Success is where you view yourself going in life and what would be a positive outcome?

Are you already successful?

What would make you more successful?

Is Success a destination?

These are all questions you have to ask yourself and I know I’m kind of bouncing all over the place, but it’s because I had an interview with like a fellow who’s relatively new to the business world, relatively new to owning a business.

His name is Scott Smith. He owns Earth2Earth, compost pails. This is an invention that he came up with himself. He based it off of things that people had already done for themselves, but he is one that created something that he took out, had it patented and is trying to sell as many of these little compost buckets as much as possible.

It’s very, very interesting and it’s a great conversation because there’s a guy that comes from construction. He has a very plain spoken way of speaking, very direct and to the point, but at the same time he’s a little bit of a philosopher and he’s realized that success isn’t necessarily about how much money you make, it’s about the lifestyle you make.

It’s about having something to build off of, having a direction that you’re taking life in. And he’s definitely doing that. It’s a great talk. Go and listen to it. The link is in. The description is named Scott Smith. This is the Off The Grid Biz Podcast is where I interviewed him.

So go and check it out.

Tomorrow we’re going to be talking about another podcast, another interview that I put out, and I’m going to be talking about kind of the, the ideas behind it. If you found any of this interesting, go to DreamBizChat.com.

Otherwise we’re gonna see you tomorrow and I’ll still probably be here in Nevada even though I’ll be flying around. So maybe I’ll be in a different state. Who knows?

We’ll catch you tomorrow, have a good night and get out there and let the magic happen.

Physical Side is Business

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Let’s talk about the physical side of business.

Hi I’m Brian J. Pombo welcome to Brian J. Pombo Live coming to you from Las Vegas, Nevada. Of all places. That’s right.

We’re going to be talking about events. This is only fitting being that I am at a an event, a convention style event right now, and it’s funny how when you’re at an event, especially way outside of the normal place that you would normally be, Las Vegas is quite a distance from Grants Pass Oregon.

When you’re at an event time seems to not work the same way and you don’t behave in the same way you would in any other time. You don’t think the same way. You’re very outside of your element. There’s an advantage to that. When you’re in business, you’re putting on an event.

You can get people to do things, say things, talk about things they normally wouldn’t do, so there’s an advantage, especially on the business end of things. But when you’re the consumer, when you’re on the consumer end or you’re somewhere in between a business to business end of things, sometimes things get switched up mixed up and all the rest.

It’s for this reason that I missed yesterday’s daily talk that we have together here on Brian J. Pombo Live, and I apologize. Today I’m coming back to you with two episodes. This first episode is all about events.

It’s very specific because we put out a podcast earlier this month where it’s only me and Sean E. Douglas, podcast producer extraordinar where we’re sitting and talking about the Mother Earth News Fair.

This is part of the whole recap for the 2019 Mother Earth News Fair extravaganza that we went through. So go and listen to that podcast. It’s episode 20 minutes. I’ve got the link in the description also in the description.

If you’re a business owner or executive that’s in the self-reliance space, you’re going to want to go check out DreamBizChat.com and it’ll tell you more about it when you get there. It’s just a quick video.

You don’t need to add in your email or anything else. Just go watch the video. Tell me what you think. So go and listen to this episode.

It’s only me and Sean talking, no interview or anything of that sort. It’s just very simple. What you’re seeing right now, if you’re watching this on video or hearing via podcast, is a very tired individual. I’m up early today. I’m going to go get some breakfast, get out there and get involved in a live physical event, whatever industry you’re in, find an event that you can plug into.

There are so many benefits and we talk about that from a business perspective on that podcast. Oh, very similar to how we’re talking in the interviews that we’ve had with speakers and experts and exhibitors from the Mother Earth News Fair. You’ve got to start digging into this.

There’s so much value from physical connection. Even if you have an electronic store, you know, if you’re just on a website doing e-commerce or you have a local business, there are huge advantages to physically meeting up with your clientele or potential clientele.

Even if you don’t get any new business, being able to interact with them one on one in a convention, an expo, any type of live event. Even to the extent of a smaller life events, local live events, a farmer’s market, a growers market, anything that’s very quick and easy to get to.

It doesn’t have to cost you a bunch of money, but get out there and meet your clients. Press the flesh, shake some hands, get to know them as people.

The physical world is out there. Don’t ignore it because your competitors more than likely are tomorrow. Well not tomorrow. Later today, I’m going to bring you another episode and what we’re going to talk about while your guests is as good as mine, so have a great one.

Get out there and let the magic happen.

Would Your Business Survive Armageddon?

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Michael Foley – Farming for the Long Haul

Can Your Business Survive Armageddon?

Hi, I’m Brian Pombo, Welcome back to the Orange Office in Grants Pass, Oregon. Today we’re going to be talking a little bit of emergency preparedness, especially in terms of your business.

Are you a good prepper when it comes to your business?

Have you actually thought of what you were going to do if things really got tough out there? And what, I mean, what do you do with your business? If something really horrible happens, something apocalyptic, let’s say the electrical grid shut down or something of that sort, what would you do?

Well, this was kind of some of the talk of where we were going when we spoke with Michael Foley. He wrote the book, Farming for the Long Haul.

The whole thing’s all about resilience. How do you make things last? How do you make things last pass bad economies?

His whole purpose isn’t directly toward business. He deals a lot with homesteading and farming, but you could take the exact same concept and apply it back to your business. And really ask yourself, are you hitting on all the main points?

Some of the things that he points out is are you involved locally? Is your business, even though you may have an international or national based business, are you involved locally? Do you have a customer base locally that you could depend on if necessary? Do you work one-on-one? Do you have forms of direct sales with people?

All these things are things to keep in mind. We talk about a little bit more they’re on the podcasts. Go and listen to it. Really sharp guy, very educated. He’s spent years as a teacher. He just recently came out with this book.

This is his first book and I think he’d like to come out with more from the way it sounded. We talk a little bit about the book writing process. Talk about public speaking. So if you’re looking at doing either of those things to help propel yourself, your business, your concepts and ideas, you’re going to want to listen to this episode of the Off the Grid Biz Podcast. So go and check it out. The link is in the description. Once again, his name is Michael Foley and he wrote Farming for the Long Haul.

Really good talk that we had there. I really liked it. I got to meet him over at the Mother Earth News Fair this last weekend. So that was lots of fun. In the future, tomorrow we’re going to be switching gears a little bit. We are going to return back to the Mother Earth News Fair and discuss some of the other concepts that we came across there.

Tomorrow we’re going to be discussing something a little bit new.

We’re gonna talk about the psychology behind the relationship and how that ties back in personality and the psychology of that. This is an area we haven’t discussed yet here on the videos.

We’ll probably have a little series of videos where we talk about that tomorrow.

In the meantime, if you are a business owner or an executive and you happened to work in the self-reliance field, meaning you have products or services that help people to become more self reliant and really ties into our conversation here with Michael, go and listen to it. If you feel like any of those things hit for you and you’re looking to really tune up your business, I’m sure you’re doing great.

I only work with successful people really. And so if you already have a successful business, you’re the type of person I’d like to talk to. Because if you have a place you’re looking to go and you’re looking to have someone help you to get there, that understands business, that understands your type of business, a self-reliance based business, go to DreamBizChat.com.

You can also find the link in the description. You can go and click on that. If you happen to be listening to this via podcast and aren’t able to see it, it’s DreamBizChat.com talks all about the dream business transformation on that page. It’s a real simple page. It has a video, eight and a half minute video. Go and watch it.

If you think that you qualify, fill out the application. I’d love to be able to chat with you. So until then, next time, like I said, we’re going to be talking about personalities and psychology tomorrow and how it ties back to your business. So we’ll see you tomorrow.

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

How Important is Customer Service?

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Chris White – DripWorks

How important is customer service to Your Business? Hi, I’m Brian Pombo. Welcome back to the Orange Office in Grants Pass, Oregon.

With me today for the first time on these videos is Tyler Pombo, my oldest son, he’s five years old and he is just going to be helping me out a little bit as we talk today about the interview that I had with Chris White.

This fellow right here, he’s from Drip Works. You can find them at dripworks.com and they deal in drip irrigation and he gave a talk over at the Mother Earth News Fair in Albany, Oregon.

I didn’t even get to see his talk, but supposedly it was really good. I talked to him afterwards. He felt good about it and it was an interesting thing because he comes at it from a different angle.

He’s a sales representative for Drip Works and is one of the first people of his position that I’ve actually had on the show.

That was very interesting to come at it from that end and come up with some different questions and everything. I had talked to them about how this worked in the marketing plan for Drip Works.

The one thing he pointed to is that Drip Works has that really makes them stand out in the marketplace is customer service. And so they make sure they have customer service lines. Even though a lot of their stuff is online base, so you go on their site and purchase some of their items.

Everything is made to include people that are brand new to drip irrigation. So they have kits and so forth that you can buy and all these other things.

They have trained people in their customer service so you can call them and ask them if you have an specific issue, what you should be doing, especially if you’re new to the whole thing.

That’s what Chris’s job is. And if you look at it, really everything that he does has to do with customer service. So the whole him being at this show, him giving a speech on why it’s important to have drip irrigation and if you’re interested in having drip irrigation, why you should look into it and ask the pros that know how to do it. All those things, it’s all part of customer service.

It’s all part of being out there and being a real person in this digital world. Oftentimes we want everything to be automated and we forget that you gotta be real. You have to have….everything is one-on-one, everything is relationship reliant.

That’s what I say over and over again when I’m working with my clients and customers and helping them to able to really connect with their customer base and make it completely competition free. Is to really have that one-on-one relationship. So customer service, it’s not only necessary in your businesses necessary in every business to really make you stand out, go and listen to that episode.

I’ve got a link in the description below. Also in the link in the description below or above, depending on where you’re watching this is a a a special link that I talk about every time and all of my videos and it’s specifically for those of you who are owners and executives in the self-reliance field.

If you own a company that helps people in some way or fashion to be more self-reliant, like Drip Works, how they show people how to be more self-reliant, how to do gardening and so on and so forth. If you’re that person, go and go to DreamBizChat.com show them real quick. So what’s that website, Tyler? DreamBizChat.com.

Go to DreamBizChat.com like we said, the link is also in the description. I normally have my little card that I use, but I didn’t have it with me. Yeah, this time it’s a big card. Yeah, big card, that we’re using.

So, DreamBizChat.com go there, check it out. There’s an eight and a half minute video. It’ll explain itself and you can apply and you qualify for the dream business transformation. Go and fill out the application. It’s perfectly free and I love to talk with you.

On the next episode we’re going to be discussing an interview that I had with a very smart individual, somebody who has a long range vision in the field of agriculture and where things are going in terms of homesteading and everything else. How does that apply back to your business?

You’ll find out on the next episode, so we’ll see you tomorrow. In the meantime, get out there, get out there and let the magic happen.