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Want A More Simple Life?

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Want a more simple life?

Hi, I’m Brian J Pombo with BrianJPombo.com welcome back to the Orange Office. This is Brian J. Pombo Live coming to you from Grants Pass, Oregon.

Today we’re talking about simplicity, life simplification, a great little phrase that this fellow made up right here.

This is Gary Collins. Gary Collins is the writer of many books including some one called Off The Grid, which ties right into my Off the Grid Biz Podcast, which I got to interview him on. If you check out the description, you could see the link going back to that interview and I highly recommend you listen to it.

Now at the time of the interview we did it over video chat and he doesn’t look a lot like this. He’s got a beard now and a baseball cap on, so he looked like a completely different person but very sharp guy.

Lots of fun to talk to and he’ll be a lot of fun to listen to make sure and listen to that podcast. He’s got a lot of energy and a lot of the stuff he talks about, it’s really funny because a lot of the stuff he talks about that, uh, I heard someone else saying is a lot of common sense.

He has a lot of solid common sense, but he delivers it in a very confident, straightforward, no bs attitude that makes it a lot of fun.

One of the themes that he has is this concept of life simplification.

And the way I see it is it’s life simplification for the purpose of lifestyle design. So if you can have the ideal life, my friend Tyler says that, it’s a life you don’t need a vacation from. If you could design a life you don’t need a vacation from, what would it be?

And would it be more simple? If you really distilled it down to its most simple form, what would that be? How would that look? If you could just make it as basic as possible just to start out with, just to make your life easier, stress-free, and really be what you want it to be. What would that look like?

That’s what Gary focuses on, that’s his perspective on things. And that’s what he helps people bring people to. He has a series of books. Has a new one coming out called the Simple Life Guide to Financial Freedom.

So we talk a lot about that on the show where he’s talking about financial freedom. He’s talking about, how to really simplify things to be able to get what you want out of life while at the same time not messing people over and really having a good moral life.

Go listen to that because I think it would help you out.

I think it’s very much in terms of a lot of the concepts that we talk about here. He actually lives off the grid. So beyond what most people would off the grid, he lives off the grid, he and lives very much an off the grid lifestyle.

He tries to stay off social media except for business and so forth. And he’s got a lot of cool concepts. Go and listen to that episode.

If you are a business owner or an executive that’s in the self-reliance space, meaning that you have products and services and a lifestyle that promotes self-reliance to others, then you’re somebody I’d like to talk to. Go to DreamBizChat.com. At DreamBizChat.com where I’m discussing the dream business transformation.

There’s an eight and a half minute video you can watch. Just go take a look. It’s free to apply and it’s free to take part in the Dream Biz Chat if you’re so interested, if you’re so inclined. And if you qualify, go and check it out. I’m quite a ways off from being able to have any Dream Biz Chats right now or at least two weeks to two months out right now with them. So there is a waiting list, but if you go apply, I will definitely get back to you within the next week and a half or so.

Like I said, we’re kind of backlogged and like on a lot of great episodes on, Off the Grid Biz coming out even tonight. Go and check it out once again. DreamBizChat.com. Tomorrow we are going to be discussing, uh, let’s see, what are we going to be discussing?

I don’t know. It probably the next episode of Off the Grid Biz, which is going to be coming out tonight. Ooh, go and check it out. It has to do with, how to have these types of businesses.

How would you have…..we talked about, expert type businesses or adding some expertise into the business that you already have? We’re gonna talk about a person that’s been doing that themselves. They’ve been practicing this concept of learn, do, teach, and it’s just, it’s a constant cycle. I think you’ll find it interesting.

We’ll see it tomorrow. In the meantime, get out there and let the magic happen.

How To Beat The Man

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How to beat the man. Hi, I’m Brian Pombo. Welcome back to the Orange Office in Grants Pass, Oregon.

Today we’re going to be talking about how to beat the man. In other words, the big guy, the one that’s in charge, the one that seems to be running things, the big corporate giant, whoever it is.

If you’re a business person, you’re in a specific industry, chances are you’re not at the tip, tip, tip, tip top of that industry. There’s bigger people that tend to have their sway over the marketplace and can sometimes be the bane of your existence.

If you’re dealing with any form of competition whatsoever, even if it’s just a subtle competition from Amazon.com like we’ve discussed in the past. There’s a way that you can handle that and someone that put it in a really good way. Is this fellow here, his name’s Andy Brennan, I got to interview recently on The Off the Grid Biz Podcasts.

You can listen to it at offthegridbiz.com if you check the description, you’ll see the link going directly to Andy’s podcast episode. He is a co-owner in Aaron Burr Cider. He is the writer of Uncultivated, a new book that’s been out. Go and check that out.

His claim to fame is creating cider out of wild apples. He is from New York state.

He has a whole interesting story that you really ought to go and listen to. Well, one of the points he makes towards the end of the interview, he discusses how there’s one thing that the big guys really can’t do when it comes to competition and there’s a whole bunch of ways to beat out competition.

I have a whole series of videos, regarding the nine different ways of how to beat Amazon at their own game. You go and find those wherever you’re watching these videos.

You could scroll back and find those, just type in “Amazon” (at brianjpombo.com) and see if you can find it. But he mentions a way that ties into a lot of the ways that I have in terms of how to be at all competition.

And I think it’s one of the major ones and it comes down to relationships.

Having one-on-one relationships with your customer base is so huge. It’s so enormous and it’s one of those things that larger companies just can’t do.

Even if they could do, if they could wrap their mind around it, I’m not sure they would. I don’t think they understand how important that is. If you’re able to do this, you can lock in the loyalty from your customers and it’s in a perfectly organic way.

It’s not like you’re doing it just to lock them in and to keep hold of your customers, but even if you were, you’d be able to do that if you focused on the relationship that you have with them versus just the product or what they’re getting out of the product or service that you provide.

Get to know the person, treat them like a human being. You will beat out everybody else. If you’re able to get in physical proximity to them, whether you have to travel or not, do it. Find a way, throw a convention on. Go to a convention where your customers are already hanging out or where your proposed customers hang out.

Get to know them, meet them, let them see you as a person. Put yourself out there as a person.

Write a book like Andy did and put yourself out there as a person. Be vulnerable in that sense. By doing that, you can beat out the big guys because they’re never going to do that, they really won’t.

They could if they really wanted to, but they’re not going to and they want to be able to do it with as much finesse as you can do being a scaled down smart company.

So with that in mind, if you are in the self-reliance field, if you help people either through your products, your service, or the message that surrounds it to be more self-reliant, your someone I’d like to talk to.

Go to DreamBizChat.com, there’s an eight and a half minute video. Go and watch it. Find out more about what the dream business transformation is. It’s a completely free process, but I’d like to find out what you think about that video and find out about what we’re offering.

They’re completely for free for business owners and executives in the self-reliance field. That’s all we got for today.

Tomorrow we’re going to be talking about, let me see if I can remember. Hold on. It’s coming. It’s coming. Another person that I interviewed on The Off the Grid Biz Podcast, it’s going to be a brand new one.

It’s not even out right now, but it will be out tomorrow, and she has a secret on how to handle adversity, how to look at adversity and handle it in your business if you’re able to handle it the way that she does in the way that she describes….you’re a winner in my book and you’re the type of person that I like to do business with and I know there’s other people that will think the same thing.

So be sure and show up tomorrow. In the meantime, get out there and let the magic happen.

Big Why – Little Why

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Big Why, Little Why. What’s the difference? What’s it all about?

I’m Brian Pombo, welcome back to the Orange Office in Grants Pass, Oregon. Today we’re going to be talking about big why, a little why and a particular why that this gentleman had.

His name is Frank Hyman. You’ve heard me speak of him before. If you’ve been listening at all this week, we’ve been talking about his book Hentopia, his process in getting this book published.

It’s very, very interesting how it went from a very little why idea to become a really an extension of his bigger why. I’ll tell you about it a little bit right now, but first let me just tell you. If you happen to be in the self-reliance field and you help people to become more self reliant through your products and services, let’s say you’re a business owner or you’re an executive in that business, you’re the type of person I’d like to talk to.

Go to DreamBizChat.com it’s specifically for business owners and executives in the self-reliance field. Go there. You can click on the link. It’s in the description above, below where it, depending on where you’re watching this, but you click on the link or type it in DreamBizChat.com. There’s a quick little video there. It gives you an idea of what the dream business transformation is all about. It’s completely free. Go check it out.

Let’s talk about Frank Hyman here. I interviewed him not long ago, a couple of weeks ago, something like that. I know all the days are, all melding together. I’ve been having a lot of activity happening lately and it’s been super busy. So Frank though is very interesting. He has a very interesting story. It’s a very friendly guy.

He has a great way of speaking. He’s a good storyteller. I really enjoyed listening to him. It’s a conversation I had with him over the phone. So it’s a little…..you gotta listen to it like you’ll listen to somebody talk on the phone, but it’s not a bad podcast.

Go and listen to the episode. It’s over on OffTheGridBiz.com you can find the link also in the description down at the bottom. It should be there, it’s a the special episode I did with Frank and he talks all about his business, how he got around to writing this book Hentopia and the process is interesting, I’ll give you the background.

His wife, they were living in an area where they could have chickens, they had enough room to have chickens, she wanted to have chickens and he’s like, I just want to be able to have a vacation for two weeks at a time and if we have chickens, we’re going to be tied at home.

I don’t want to have to be tied at home. So he did some research and found a way where he could still be out and go on two week while she could have her chickens. And so it would all work out perfectly.

As he got into that, he realized this is a lot more simple than people realize. I think I can show people how to do this on the low end. People that don’t have any money whatsoever, I can show them how they can take, let’s say, pallets….old wooden pallets and break them up and make a chicken coop out of it. He talks about all that in here. Really interesting stuff.

It’s all about habitat. It’s all about building the places where your chickens would live if you had chickens, very interesting.

And so that little why of just wanting to make his wife happy, allowing her to be able to have chickens while at the same time allowing him to have his creature comfort of being able to leave town for two weeks at a time.

That little why is also tied to a bigger why because his whole life…..going all the way back to his childhood. He’s kind of been put onto a path of trying to help people that are disadvantaged.

That maybe not economically capable of being able to do everything they want to do. And so this was his way of being able to go out there and he puts on classes and he’s going to be at the Mother Earth News Fair in Albany, Oregon.

He puts on classes to show people how to do this stuff. He wrote the book, he’s planning on writing more books around the same topic to show people that it’s not that tough to get what you want out of life if you’re willing to just be a little bit creative. And he’s certainly been creative with his time.

It’s that entrepreneurial spirit, but that big why of wanting to help people. And while at the same time having fun. That’s another thing he mentions a big point of his life is and wanting to do speaking and all these other things. It’s just to have fun. If he could have fun, he’ll keep doing what he’s doing. Great message.

Go listen to that podcast. This was just me trying to get you to go home and listen to it. If nothing else, go listen to it. Tell me what you think of it because he has a lot of great points to bring up and a lot of great points that would tie back to business, which is why we call it the Off The Grid Biz Podcast.

Tomorrow we’re going to be talking about the episode I did after that that came out after that.

You could also listen to that when it’s with Andy Brennan of Aaron Burr Cider. Okay. He’s, he’s from over in New York State and he makes cider out of wild apples and he’s got a very interesting story.

Also another phone interview and it’s a very intriguing interview indeed. The point I want to bring up tomorrow that we’re going to talk about here is his idea of how you can use one secret to be able to beat the big guys.

If you are a company that’s looking to beat the big guys out of their profits and be able to make a huge difference, this is something you can do that they can’t do or can they, maybe they can.

If you’re are one of the big guys and you’re trying to keep one of the little guys from picking you off, this might be a way of doing it also. Hmm. We’ll see you tomorrow. Have a great day. Get out there and let the magic happen.

Easy Way To Expert Status

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Here’s somebody you gotta listen to, this is Deborah Niemann. She’s going to tell us about the easy way to expert status. I’m not sure if she call it that.

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

Go over and listen to Deborah Niemann. She’s known as the Thrifty Homesteader. You can find her at thriftyhomesteader.com but before or after you do that, go click on the link that’s in the description going to Off The Grid Biz Podcast.

It’ll take you directly to her interview that I had with her, delightful person to talk to and she has so much experience in the world of homesteading and it’s only from her going out and trying it out. She went out, she tried it out, she started it, and then she started teaching it.

She started teaching in a small way, gotten into it a big way, got into it even bigger way, and now she’s an expert in the field of homesteading in some very specific areas. And you’ll find out by going and listen to that podcast.

I got to hold some things back. I got to get you over there and listen to it. Go listen to the interview. It’s relatively short and the stuff that she has in there, if you’re looking to be an expert in your field or an expert in a new field for you,

I think you’re going to get some good nuggets off of what she’s saying.

All you have to do is translate it back to what you’re doing regardless of whether it’s homesteading or anything else. Take her path and copy it and use it in your own life and you’ll, you’ll be, you’ll be thankful you did.

If you’re looking for any assistance in that, especially if you already have a business that’s successful, if you’re the business owner, if you’re an executive in that business and you’re looking to take it to really be the dream business.

If you’ve got a concept that you’d like to achieve and you’re just wondering what the pathway is to get there, the first step is to develop a plan, a strategy. This is specifically what I do. I’m a business strategist and I help business owners go from point A to point B and really building their dream business even if it’s from scratch.

But if you’re successful that’s the best way to do it is after you’ve already been successful. Taking that car that’s already moving and turning the wheel works a lot easier than if it’s not moving.

Go to DreamBizChat.com if you think that that sounds interesting to you at all, go to DreamBizChat.com is my personal site. It’s got a video there. I go through the details of what that’s all about, but go check that out.

Go check out Debra Niemann’s interview. It’s a great interview and go check out her website at thriftyhomesteader.com and we will see you tomorrow. Tomorrow we’re going to be talking about Frank Hyman.

Remember, it’s the guy that wrote this book (Hentopia). We talked about him before, but I’m going to talk specifically about his interview and some of the nuggets that he left behind. We’ll be talking about that tomorrow. In the meantime, get out there and let the magic happen.

One Is The Deadliest Number

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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.

What Is YOUR Business?

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Find out why Brian suggest that your REAL business is in sales and marketing. Not just the products or services you offer.

For more on this, checkout the podcast Brian mentions in today’s video here – http://offthegridbiz.com/dave-zook-horizon-structures/

How Can Your Story Make You More Money?

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Mark C. Robinson – Walkin’ Pets

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A Major Secret to Success

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A Major Secret to Success

A Major Secret to Success, with Sean Douglas.

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Brian & Sean went out to an event and met David & Beth Pruett from Amp-3.net

  • Today’s conversation is about the value of getting out and mixing it up with people in the target market you work in or want to work in.

For us, that’s getting to know people in the off grid, homesteading niche.

Are You Grabbing the Public’s Attention?

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Are you getting the attention you want?

Listen to Brian & Ann Molloy of Neptune’s Harvest discuss the highs and lows of running a family business: http://offthegridbiz.com/ann-molloy-neptunes-harvest/

  • Brian shares a recent podcast conversation he had with Ann Molloy from Neptune’s Harvest and how well she know the business and the products they offer.
  • You need to have someone on your staff that can do the same thing. And doesn’t mind getting out in the market place to promote the company.
  • That is to say, you need someone that can hold themselves out as an expert.

How to Streamline Customer Service

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Do you think your company is providing good customer service?

  • Brian shares some thoughts from his conversation with Brad James from Beepods and how they’ve had success with helping customers with this area of their company.

Listen to Brian & Brad James of Beepods discuss the systems behind a growing business: http://offthegridbiz.com/brad-james-beepods-beekeeping/