Tag: Mother Earth News Fair Albany Oregon

Are You Flexible?

Posted on by brianjpombo@hotmail.com

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

http://DreamBizChat.com
More Daily Vids➡️ – shorturl.at/ctAB4

Are you flexible? Hi, I’m Brian Pombo. Welcome back to the Orange Office in Grants Pass, Oregon.

I’m with BrianJPombo.com and I was going to come to you with a completely different topic tonight, but I have to be flexible because tomorrow I am going to be a leaving town to go to The Mother Earth News Fair in Albany, Oregon.

We’ve been leading up to this. If you’ve been watching any of these videos, you know that this is the process. This is what we’re going to be doing this weekend. So we’re going to be on our way up there and that’s starting tomorrow and it’s going to be a really busy weekend.

The vehicle that I had planned to take decided to start giving me some trouble and talking back today. So that is not the vehicle we’re going to be taking. We are going to be taken a rental vehicle instead.

So all this stuff happens all at the last minute. Thank goodness it happens now and not during the trip.

You know, you gotta look at the bright side of things and you’ve gotta stay flexible.

You gotta I mean I’m pulling in a late night here because we got a bunch of things that need to go out tonight.

Needs to happen now and a lot of things end up popping up in your way and you just gotta keep moving. Don’t forget you’re not the only one. When these things happen to you, it happens to all of us. It’s part of the process. Remain flexible.

Flexible is the word. Speaking of flexibility, if you are a business owner, you know what I’m talking about. If you’re an executive and you’ve been working at your company for awhile and you’re one of the ones that everyone depends on, you know about flexibility.

And if you’re looking to take your business and flex it out, how about that for a little link there, we’re going to flex out your business and really make it into your dream business.

Go to DreamBizChat.com go and check out the video there. DreamBizChat.com link is in the description. Go Click on it. Go check it out. There’s a video there. Tell you all about it.

I’m not going to go through it today. Go through it just about every single day with you. So go check that out. I got to get my work done. Tomorrow we’re going to be out on the road. Maybe have something fancy to look at. Maybe not, I don’t know, but we’ll show you.

Show you whatever the adventure is that happens when you’re out on the highway and day after that, we’ll be at the Mother Earth News Fair.

Lots of interesting stuff, guaranteed coming up.

Go check out offthegridbiz.com is the podcast. We’ve got new episodes even coming out tonight. Go check it out. Have a good one.

One Is The Deadliest Number

Posted on by brianjpombo@hotmail.com

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

One Is The Deadliest Number

http://DreamBizChat.com
More Daily Vids➡️ – shorturl.at/ctAB4

If you get all your business from one media source, one is the deadliest number.

Hi, I’m Brian Pombo. Welcome back to the Orange Office. I’m with BrianJPombo.com and this is Brian J. Pombo Live.

Today we’re going to be talking about the concept of one being the deadliest number out there. I think that actual quote comes from Dan Kennedy. Don’t quote me on that, but I think it does. Dan Kennedy a marketing genius and the concept is simple.

If you are dependent on any one media source for advertising for a publication, then you’re in big trouble.

It’s only a matter of time before that comes to haunt you. Okay. When we’re talking business, that’s what we’re talking about. I’m going to get into all that.

I’ve got some quick housekeeping to go through. On yesterday’s episode we discussed Frank Hyman and his book Hentopia. This is an awesome book. If you want to find out more, go back to that episode or go to offthegridbiz.com

I’ve got an interview that just popped up today with Frank Hyman. He talks all about his book Hentopia and even if you aren’t interested in chickens, okay. If you’re interested in building a business and learning how you can use the writing of books, the speaking at events and so on, so on and so on, to be able to help you build your business. This is a great episode to listen to. These books are fabulous.

This is put out by Storey Publishing. Look at the quality, I don’t know if you could see that well from here, but it’s really high end stuff.

This is not just some self-published thing. Not that there’s anything wrong with self-publishing, but a story publishing does a great job. This whole book is about how to build habitat from top to bottom, including feeders and everything else for chickens. Even if you’re on…especially if you’re on a budget.

So Hentopia, check that out. Frank Hyman, I told you I was going to show you the book. I’ve showed it to you.

Also, if you are a business owner or an executive in the self-reliance field, meaning you have products, services, a storyline that encourages people to become more self reliant. You’re somebody I’d like to talk to. Go to DreamBizChat.com. Go and check out the video there. It’s self-explanatory. It’ll give you an idea of what I’m offering and it’s free. It’s completely free.

DreamBizChat.com go check it out.

Third thing I want to talk about before we talk about this handsome gentleman, we are talking about David and Beth Pruitt who are with Amp-3.net. A fabulous emergency prep website.

We’re going to be talking more about them later. I spoke with them this morning. Got to hang out with them on their, Mountain View Ranch out in Sam’s Valley. Fabulous time. Salt of the earth people, like my friend Richard used to say, and I look very much forward for you to hear our conversations that we’re having together.

I wasn’t even going to be talking with them about the Mother Earth News Fair, but it came up and they got to tell me what they thought about the Mother Earth News Fair and their experiences with it and why they think it’s so cool.

So, we’ll be talking to them later. That podcast will be coming out after this mini series that we’re putting out right now on the mother Earth News Fair.

Now, the first episode that we have out, I’m getting back to the subject, getting back to the subject. First episode that we’d put out was yesterday. The mini series on the Mother Earth News Fair.

Once again, go to offthegridbiz.com to hear The Off The Grid Biz Podcast. You’re going to want to go to episode eight with this gentleman. His name is Andrew Perkins. Andrew Perkins is the events and business development director, I believe for Ogden Publications.

Ogden Publications are the folks that put out Mother Earth News and they put on the Mother Earth News Fair.

Why do they put on the Mother Earth News Fair? Mother Earth News has been around since the late sixties or seventies, I don’t have the date right in front of me.

They’ve been around for awhile.

They used to have, a whole set up that people can come and see. It was static. It was in one spot and is this horrible? I’m forgetting the name (The Eco-Village). Y

ou’re going to have to go listen to the podcast to find out the name, the name of their setup that you can go and see a physical representation of what their magazine was about. Well, that had gone away years ago. When Ogden took over the publication.

They said, hey, what if we could have something similar? And they said, “why don’t we do an event?” And we could have an event, people can all come and see it. We can have people put on….it’s basically an expo for a homesteading and everything that goes along with Mother Earth News that we’ve talked about on previous episodes.

I got a great interview here with Andrew Perkins, go and listen to it.

One thing he pointed out that I think is so important is how they were able to survive as a magazine.

I mean how many magazines are left anymore? Right? Print is really having a tough time, but look at how they’ve been able to survive. They’ve created a physical environment for people to interact in.

They’ve created community by doing that. I think it’s a point, we don’t even make that much on that episode, but they’ve built up a community. And I found this out and there goes Andrew….my screens gone.

But they up this community and in talking to all the people that are going to be presenting and speaking there, there’s this really tight knit community, really cool people and because of that they’ve been able to survive in an area that most people would say, “well, print dead, it’s done for now.” It’s not done for, it’s just got competition now from online content and so forth.

So it’s not on its own anymore because of the competition. People have to be more creative.

You have-to-have more than one media set.

You can’t just be coming from one spot. You’ll last for awhile, you won’t last forever. This is included in advertising. If you’re advertising and you get most of your people from one area, that’s fine, but you have to diversify. You have to have media diversity.

Media diversification is what is the name of the game.

You got to get out of your comfort zone and grow how many places you are reaching your crowd, your market, whether it be current customers, whether it’s potential customers or whether it’s past customers. You need to be meeting them in every chance that you can. Every format of media possible is the way you got to think about these things.

Otherwise you get bogged down with one thing. All of a sudden that media is gone or that media gets competition that wasn’t there before and your whole business is over. You don’t want that. I don’t want that. So diversify your media goal. Listen to that podcast.

Tomorrow we are going to be talking about expertise in an interview that I had with Deborah Niemann, who is the Thrifty Homesteader. She’s got a secret to how to become a very well known expert and she did it all. It all happened over many years and, but it happened magically and it’s something that you can copy.

We’re going to talk about that tomorrow. We’ll see you back here. In the meantime, get out there and let the magic happen.

How Expos & Trade Shows Can Explode Your Profits

Posted on by brianjpombo@hotmail.com

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

How Expos & Trade Shows Can Explode Your Profits

http://DreamBizChat.com
More Daily Vids➡️ – shorturl.at/ctAB4

How Expos and Trade Shows can explode your profits.

Hi, I’m Brian Pombo. Welcome back again to the orange office in Grants Pass, Oregon. I’m with BrianJPombo.com and this is Brian J Pombo Live.

Everyday we come to you with another tip of a way that you can make huge changes in your business.

Okay, so today we’re going to talk about expos and trade shows and other things like conventions and ways that you can get out there and make a huge change in your business.

It has to do with networking.

Nowadays with social networking, with social media, we all expect to be able to do things online. We all expect to be able to reach people by email, reach people on social media, reach people electronically as much as possible, and do everything from behind a desk.

Really, if you can focus on doing something else, if you can focus on going the next level and taking it out to the physical world, you’re gonna really see the big difference.

I’m doing it myself. So within the self-reliance field, which is one of the areas that I’m focusing in on right now, and I have a podcast, I’ve mentioned it before, it’s The Off The Grid Biz Podcast. Here’s the latest business card.

I’ll tell you more about that in a second.

I’ve got this podcast, right. This gives me a chance to get out there and interview people within the self-reliance field, get to learn more about it, get to learn more about their business.

Because I’m talking to them from a business end and it’s changed everything. So today I was talking with Andrew Perkins. Andrew Perkins, who works for Ogden Publications.

Ogden Publications publishes Mother Earth News. Mother Earth News is a magazine that helps people in the self-reliance field and specifically in homesteading and kind of living off the land and learning how to do things the way people always used to be able to do it, but kind of teaching people how to do it again.

So raising animals, raising your own food, taking care of your own place, that type of deal.

Mother Earth News has been around for a long time, but they realized a few years back that if you’re going to survive as a magazine, you have to expand out. You can’t just be just a print magazine and that’s it.

So they created these Mother Earth News Fairs, there’s six of them that happen across the country. These are basically it’s an expo that gets put on all across the country.

They bring in speakers, they bring in authors to come out, put on workshops, show people how to do things, get people’s hands dirty and really show them all these things that people were interested in who would read the magazine except it’s like alive. It’s right out there for them to see and do. So this is exciting.

I’m going to the Mother Earth News Fair in Albany, Oregon. It’s on the first weekend of August and I’d love to see you there.

If you’re interested in the self-reliance field as I am a head over to MotherEarthNewsFair.com and go buy yourself a ticket.

Head on out there and reach out to me. I’d love to love to come and meet you.

This is one of the reasons why I had these business cards made. So what’s the point of a business card nowadays? It kind of seems, you know, old fashioned right? Well business cards, I dunno, for the past 20 years or so, they’re not all that useful unless you use them right.

The way I see business cards, this is just my way of showing that I have something serious. I’ve got a podcast to be able to interview people. This is cheese. If you’re talking cheese versus whiskers, we’ve talked about this before and we’re going to talk about it tomorrow.

Cheese versus whiskers. This is cheese to the business owners out there that are looking to promote something. It’s a podcast where I’m asking to interview people.

I’m not asking for them to buy anything. I’m not asking for them to listen to me. I’m asking to talk to them and give them a chance to get their point out there. So that’s what this business card means to them. For me. I’m more interested in the other side of the business card. See all these lines. It’s all blank. That’s what I’m interested in.

I’m interested in filling this part out so I will give one of these to somebody and then if they don’t have a card or anything with them that tells me their contact information, I’ll get their name. I’ll get everything I can and have them right here and I get to hold on to that.

You see, that’s the most valuable thing about a business card. It’s showing that you’re serious. It’s showing that you had some pre-thought to this coming forward.

You may have a chance of them remembering you after they take home a card, but more than likely they’re going to put it in a pile with other business cards or it’s going to sit off to the side and get forgotten about. That’s just life.

That’s just how things are people. It’s too easy to forget about those types of things. But I plan on using this business card. We’ve got this whole plan. I’m going with Sean Douglas, my producer.

We’re going to head out there. We’re going to be there for two days, Saturday and Sunday. Get to meet people, get to mingle, get to network a little bit and learn more about the entire niche.

So how can you use this?

Find an expo, a convention, a trade show in the niche that you are working in. What you will find there is you will find people with who are either in your audience, in your customer base, or you’re willing to find people who are playing to your customer base and you want to learn from them.

You want to see what you can do together to be able to meet the same customer base. There’s so many options out there, but that you got to get off your duff out of the office, out of in front of the computer and go out and meet some people. So that’s today’s tips.

Go to DreamBizChat.com if you’re in the self-reliance field, if you are an executive or business owner, go to DreamBizChat.com and go and watch that video there. I’d love to hear what you think about it. There’s an application to fill out if you think it applies to you.

Tomorrow we’re going to talk about more cheese, less whiskers. We’ll see you tomorrow.