https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GI5IekmvqBY&feature=youtu.be

Brian talks about Donald Miller's book Building A Story Brand.

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Building A Story Brand - A Review.

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

I'm going to be reviewing this book and I'm going to be breaking an unspoken rule that I try not to review a book until I'm at least close to being finished with it.

But this is one I'm going to make an exception on, because I already liked it enough that there's really not much more that can happen in this book for me to be unhappy with it. I mean, it's just the overall direction, the structure of it, I already know where it's going before it gets there. It's just getting deeper and deeper into the point that he's already laid early on in the book.

So I know I'm gonna like it regardless of what he says to do and I'll give you an idea of what that is. The subtitle for this is clarify your message so customers world will listen.

And that's what making a story is all about this, something I've always believed in, something I've worked myself on trying to develop more and more is the ability to tell a good story. It's not easy.

It's not something for some people, it comes natural, or they grew up around other storytellers that they've been able to adapt it well. But it's not something that we naturally do.

Because we don't talk to ourselves necessarily in a story form. You know, we collect data and everything else in our minds, and we have it organized in whichever way is works best for us in our own brains.

But it's not necessarily that we don't realize that so much of what we latch on to came to us originally via story, somebody was telling us a story. And that's what led us into an interest. And it's very difficult to get a point across without telling a story. And you've heard all the examples, you know, they talk about Jesus Christ, talking about everything in the form of parable, I mean, just about every one of his major lessons was in a was in a parables in story form.

I mean, just anybody you can imagine, that has been able to paint pictures for people, it's via some form of story, either complex or simple. But it always comes through the story.

That's how we attach to these things. I mean, most of us, especially those of us who grew up during this era, a lot of the stories that are so cemented in our minds aren't only from books, they're stories from movies, most of us, it's ultimately it's the movies, it's the great movie series and the TV series. And it's these fictionalized stories.

But if you pull back from the ones that are the most popular, it's not the fiction that people get caught up in it, you know it, yeah, a lot of that stuff pulls people forward, you know that special effects, the colorful characters, everything else.

But really, it comes down to the story, and the basis of the story, the structure of the story, and the principles that the story is teaching, that we really latch on to the most popular movies out there. They have strong stories, they may be simple stories, but they're strong stories.

He goes through this quite a bit early on in the book, and talking about structure and how you can take it, whether it be a business or anything else, how you can take a story to be able to build up a brand.

And it's so simple the way he puts it,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9M3wDuJhLo&feature=youtu.be

How to handle both good times and bad times in business.

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Figuring out the ups and downs in business.

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

I want to talk about the ups and downs because one of the things that I've seen is a lot of my friends that are in the self reliance field. So for a long time, and if you go back and you watch some of my original videos, I focused a lot on almost primarily people in the self reliance field.

So people that have products and services that help people to become more self reliant in one way or another. And, in fact, I have an entire podcast that I that we still have episodes coming out on a regular basis, over at off thegridbiz.com is The Off The Grid Biz Podcast. It's not just about stuff that's off the grid specifically, but things that are just different.

It's self reliance based stuff, it's people that want to be different, and stand out and do their own thing from a business perspective. So that's what you can find out more at offthegridbiz.com.

But I wanted to talk about that industry right now, because this is early 2021. We're in January 2021 nd when I first began working a lot with people in that area, well, just since I had started that, that show a couple years back, we had a slump in the marketplace, not across the board, but over a lot of different areas, including the prepping and survival area. That was a huge slump that was happening at that time, a lot due to political situations, and so forth.

And right now, also due to political situations and things that are happening in the news. Everything that is self reliance based is going through the roof.

And I'd love to hear if you have a business that isn't succeeding extremely well, right now, if you have a self reliance based business, because it would be it would be a fun, it would be an amazing thing, because everyone I've talked to on the exact same day, I had some people that I had interviewed, had an auto an auto reply, say talking about how busy they were that they had to have this auto reply on email letting people know that they probably will not be able to get back to them all that soon because of all the extra business.

I have a my wife was looking to order some seeds from a seed company that we've also interviewed on the show. And she said that they they're they're falling behind. And so she was lucky that she had gotten seeds. I think previous to the election she had put her order through.

But since the election things have just gone haywire, they're there, they've just have more orders than they know what to do with. And this is pretty common across the board. I've heard this over and over and over again. If you're in that marketplace, you're on the grow right now your stuff is going through the roof, it won't always be that way, there will be a time where it will start dipping down again.

But be happy that you're in that marketplace. Now, if you're in a marketplace, if you're in a if you're a person like me, I mean, if you're a strategist, I'm a business strategist that plays to that marketplace.

Right now, most of them don't feel like they need a business strategist, because they have more business than they know what to do.

But now, there are sometimes issues where you don't know how to scale quickly enough, or you don't know where to really put your focus wher...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCG2ju3g-qA&feature=youtu.be

Now how can A Man For All Seasons be considered a business movie?

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Business movie: A Man For All Seasons.

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

I got to bring up a movie. That is, I don't think in a million years you'll ever hear someone refer to it as a business movie. But that's what I like doing. I love really pointing to the ones that people wouldn't normally think of.

This happens to be one of my favorite movies and it was different. It's an odd type of movie. It's not a very action packed movie. It's very heavy on dialogue. It's very old fashioned. It's a slow running movie.

But there's a real value to it in the long run. And what it is, this is a story of Thomas Moore, this guy here, who was the chancellor of England during the Reformation that took place in England when King Henry the Eighth kicked out the Catholic Church, and Sir Thomas Moore had an issue with it, but he couldn't outright say it.

Because the way the laws were set up, that he could be tried for treason if he outright came out against it. But at the same end, he didn't want to completely go with it. And so because he was a lawyer, found a way in between.

And what it really speaks to, there's a whole bunch of different levels in this movie.

But one of the main things and I'm not going to ruin it for you, if you haven't seen it yet, but one of the main themes that gets talked about over and over again, in subtle ways, is the idea of how to be very strong in your convictions, how to stick to your convictions, while at the same time not being so stupid as to be loud and obnoxious about them, in order to put yourself and your family in harm's way.

Which is an interesting concept, especially nowadays, when a lot of people want to be as loud and, and outrageous with their opinions as possible and you just don't know where that's gonna lead.

Nowadays, things are things are crazy, you know, there's people on all sides that are that don't want you to have the opinion that you have, I guarantee it, regardless of what your opinion is, I guarantee there's people that don't want you to have it. And in power they may keep you from having it or keep you from expressing it.

And there's a time and place for everything, not that you shouldn't express your opinions. But at the same time, you have to consider all the options on the table and know when the right time and the wrong time is to say things and also be willing to face it when when you when you're really being railroaded by government or anything else.

That's a lot of what goes into this story here. It is a very deep story, it deals a lot with religious tones. But if you look beyond that point, you know, regardless of whether you have a Catholic perspective, or this was the beginning of the Anglican Church and Anglican perspective, or something completely different, it doesn't matter if you can look past the religion, there's a deeper, deeper, deeper meaning there.

And it's the same concept in your business, it comes down to if you can be very careful about how you run your business, and very calm. That's the one thing that this character has throughout the entire movie.

Once again, this isn't necessarily based on pure This is based on a play,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=806i5Cj1gcs&feature=youtu.be

Thoughts on Trump's social media situation and diversification in getting your message out.

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How does Trump's social media purge affect your business?

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

And before you think that I'm going to get into some political tirade one way or the other about Donald Trump…not going to do it, it's not necessary. Because the point I gotta make has goes across party lines, it goes across, even if you're completely apolitical, it's important that you understand what's happening right now and how it can affect your business and how it isn't new.

It really is not new, it's new in the sense that we're seeing some of this stuff more out, right. And the political lines being made a little thicker, in between one side or the other. But it's not new.

So here's the here's the gist. This is 2021 is when I'm filming this. And we've had a situation where Trump is still in office, but in the process of transitioning out. He is transitioning over to the Biden administration here in the United States.

And there was a whole thing about the capital breach and the riot or what have you that happened at the Capitol building. The fact that Trump egged it on, or that he literally inside did it now it doesn't matter whether you think he did or you think he didn't, he was kicked off of Twitter and Facebook, supposedly for doing the same thing.

That he's had long running great relationships with these platforms. There's been threats, there's been blocks and everything else up until now, the thing is, is they were able to completely remove him overnight.

And did it not, I'm thinking not only Facebook and Twitter, but I believe a couple other platforms also did the same thing where they just they purged him. They wiped him off the face of the earth in terms of their platforms.

Now, should they have the ability to do that?

That's an argument you can you can make back and forth. Really there are private company, so they did it and you have a tough time legally getting in there. Because you agree to a lot of these things when you sign up for these platforms now, neither here nor there. The thing is that happens.

Now how does this affect your business, how it affects your business, and you should never, ever, ever put all your dependence on one platform on one area on one place to communicate with people or on a handful.

Because all it takes is saying the wrong thing at the wrong time or saying something they don't like or being accidentally removed completely, which I've seen happen to many people that I know where their material was completely taken off of Facebook, or Twitter or YouTube, and not having really much of a recourse to be able to get it fixed.

I mean, they say that they have, they have situations where you can fix this, but it's not easy. And it doesn't need necessarily need to be your fault for it to happen. The dependency factor is so bad, it's so difficult when you become dependent and think thing is about Donald Trump, he became known as Mr. Twitter, he was known for the tweet, he was known for these things that he did on this platform that he had no control over. He did not own, he took advantage of it.

But that only goes as far as the company is willing to allowing you to let you take it. And they they're not allowing it anymore.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHFS4L3lX_Q&feature=youtu.be

Some thoughts on knowing your market and the appropriate places to communicate with them.

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Where you talk to customers matters.

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

There's been a lot of stuff happening, okay, we are in 2021, the first days of 2021, the second week, technically, of 2021. And in January.

And what we're looking at right now historically is pretty amazing because what's happening is the larger digital giants are doing are doing an amazing job of cutting out very famous and powerful people off of off of their, their platforms, they cut out. Trump off Twitter and Facebook, I think in the same day, or very close to, they've cut down and cut the new parlor, which is a new social media outlet, kind of a quasi Twitter, they cut it out of the app stores, both within I think 48 hours of each other.

It's amazing times, you know, regardless of where you stand politically, the fact that all this stuff is happening is probably my guess will lead to a lot more diversification. When it comes to online media sources and online platforms are going to change quite a bit.

At the same time, even Amazon.com, which handles a lot of the cloud storage, cut Parler out of their cloud storage platform. And I believe all these places pretty much said it's because they don't police the speech properly on their platforms.

Like I said, I'm not gonna get into whether that's right or wrong, or whether you're right or left, or pro Trump or anti-Trump or pro-Biden or anti-Biden, none of that. None of that's important right here for this discussion.

It's important, but it's not important for right now, what I want to talk about is the fact that media does matter. And where you're trying to communicate with your audience matters a whole lot. And if you don't know your audience very well, you might very well be trying to communicate with them in the wrong place.

I was speaking with a group earlier today, and they were looking, they're looking to possibly get involved in either starting from scratch or purchasing a media outlet. And it's a pretty large one, but one that has both digital and physical media involved with it. I won't get into the details. But it's a very interesting idea.

The real question was, is, are the people that were that they were looking to communicate with?

Are those people using that platform or interested or possibly, in the future interested in using that platform?

I know that that may sound a little odd, but I want to give you some context. So up until now, for the last two videos, we've been talking about kind of the process of how to determine how to go about speaking to your audience, how to find your customers, and so forth.

The method that you use is you focus on first who which is the which is the market. And then secondarily, then once you really know what market you're after, you want to focus on, on what, which is the message, what do you want that market that who to do. And after you figure that out, then you have a better understanding of what the media source should be.

Oftentimes, when people are looking to do any form of advertising or marketing, they'll choose the media source first.

They'll say, we got to be on Facebook, we got to be on YouTube, or what have you and they're not fully,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGc1Ptxp3kE&feature=youtu.be

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What do your customers need to know?

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

Yesterday, we talked about who, who you're going after and what is the big deal about knowing who you're talking to who you're trying to reach.

So we talked about that a little bit yesterday, go back and watch that video, if you want a little bit of background on that, and why it's so important when you're dealing with the customer process, why you got to start with who, now with yourself, if you're talking about you and your business and your relationship with your business, you got to start with why.

And there's a whole thing behind that we talked about that a little bit yesterday, too. But it when you're talking about the customer experience, you start with who you got to start with who your customer is, first, you've got to know who that person is.

And you got to keep going back to it, looking at it and saying, Is this really who I should be focused on? Is this really, it?

Do I know this person well, and really getting to know them well over time. Now, the second part is what and what is all about the message?

So I've talked about this before, the three main things you need to know is, is what is who, what, and then where and when. Which comes down to your market, your message and your media.

Let's talk about the message a little bit Should we? What it really comes down to what do you want them to do?

What do you want your customers to do?

What do you want them to know?

What is the action that you want them to perform, is it to buy a product?

Is it to get take something free from you?

Is it to give you their information?

So you could start in the long term relationship with them? What do you want them to do is that you want them to go check something out to figure something out to find something out to ask themselves a specific question, what do you want them to do?

That's where the message is, if you're making an offer, you're going to want that irresistible offer, you're going to want that that unique selling proposition, they call it a USP, you're going to want that tied in with it, that's part of your message, if that's what you want to do, if you wanted to buy something, you got to have something like that in there.

But it all really comes down to every time you sit down to put out a piece of advertising, to have a conversation with a prospective customer or client, you got to know what you're wanting them to do.

And you got to take them from where they're at the who, who they are, where they are, what they're thinking, and you got to take them over to what you want them to do, you got to help them make that connection. And it may not be the first time you talk to them. It may be time after time.

Again, you may need repeating messages, you may need messages that play one right after the other, you may have to take them to us through a sequence. Like they say the funnel, you got to take them through a funnel. That's quite possible. But you got to know what that is.

And if you don't know the who the what is going to be really difficult to craft, your message is going to be extremely difficult to craft.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57DQ0ubKB78&feature=youtu.be

Old Time Radio and thoughts on figuring out who your trying to serve with your services.

Also as mentioned in video here's - Case and Natasha's Channel - https://youtube.com/channel/UCUO-Hg0dtEWIHv9Wyjc37VQ

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Who are you serving?

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

Today, we're going to be talking a little bit about who are you serving, if you're a business, if you're a business owner, if you're someone that's looking to promote yourself, or your cause, it's all the same thing, really.

And a whole lot of it comes back to who you're trying to serve. Now, initially, you want to cover Why, why is always the first question, because why is a very personal question. And you got to ask yourself, why am I doing this?

Why do I want to go forward with this plan, whatever your plan is. And that's the best way to really quantify that is go get the book, start with why by Simon Sinek.

I don't have my copy right here. But start with why Simon, Simon Sinek awesome book, it's a quick read. And he kind of goes into why you want to start with why and why it's absolutely important that you start with why.

Now, beyond that, once you've determined kind of your reasoning, you got to look at who you're going to be serving, that's ideal ideal is to find out who you're serving and what they're after.

So I was speaking with some of my friends who run a YouTube channel, and they've been putting out really great YouTube videos. And so it's a case and Natasha, you can go and check them out, I'll I'll put a link below of their YouTube channel. They were talking about kind of where they're looking to take it and so forth.

We got along this subject of you know, who exactly is your ideal audience?

Who were you trying to help?

Who were you trying to entertain?

Who?

It's such a big question and it's one of these strange things. It's the reason why I have this giant book here. I'm going to compare this to it because I like really strange things.

One of the things I like is really strange, odd books that you can't find anywhere else. And that has to do with really particular subjects. This is an encyclopedia of old time radio, okay, look at how thick this sucker is, this thing is huge.

I could sit down with this darn encyclopedia and flip to any page and find something interesting. I just opened it up right here. There used to be a radio show. That was all on Tarzan. It was Tarzan on the radio, stories of Tarzan. And it's not just stories, these are acted out most of these dramatic radio shows from the 30s, 40s and 50s.

And from the whole English speaking world, and it's a fabulous old time radio, which I am, this is this is a thing that nerds would get. But look at how specific This is, I mean, how many of you would possibly ever enjoy looking or thinking about something like this?

Probably not, it's probably really low.

If I were to try and sell that book, if I were to try and try to get people to buy that book, or buy anything around that book, anything around old time radio, I'd be talking to a really niche market to begin with, let alone someone that'd be willing to buy a whole encyclopedia on it.

So you're talking about a very specific tiny little market. That's okay.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLAqNm11w9o&feature=youtu.be

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Survive and thrive in business during chaotic times.

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

And this is a very special edition. You know, we saw this as a 2021 January 6 and we saw a very amazing display today. That happened in Washington DC, a whole lot of things going on.

One particular thing was people storming a closed Capitol building. And one person getting shot by Capitol Police, and so on so forth. I'm not going to take sides or anything like that. We talked about controversy yesterday and there's a time to, to be loud and proud about what you think.

And sometimes you need to hold that those cards close to your chest. And I'm, it's one of those times, I'm not going to get into that that's a different conversation for a different place.

I want to talk about you though, as a business owner, is how do you handle situations in the outside world that appear absolute chaos, absolutely chaotic. Now, if you don't pay a whole lot of attention to the news, and you don't pay a whole lot of attention to politics and everything else, then you're in a situation where you'll probably have found a way to isolate yourself from a lot of the chaos that goes on around us.

That's fine and good, but the typical person is going to run into that one way or the other a business owner, if you're out there mixing it up with people, you're going to come across it you're going to one way or the other, it's going to find you chaos is gonna find you at some point in your in your business career.

And this advice I'd give to you is the advice I'd give to anyone but I want to give it to you because of our relationship here. I meet with people on a nightly basis here on through our podcasts.

We go through different ideas, sometimes strategies, sometimes principles, but I wanted to really zone in on this very human principle. And that's that you have to keep your head you have to keep going.

Now, just as a quick aside, not to be able to overshadow the principle that I want to talk about. But to pay the bills, go check out my book, if you want to know more about me and my perspective on business, 9 Ways to Amazon-Proof Your Business, you get a free copy at AmazonProofBook.com.

Now, let me set that aside, go back to the point. It's all about keeping steady, and paying attention to what matters right now in front of you, and not letting everything from the outside destroy that.

Because no matter what, the world is always going to be crazy, there's always going to be something going on, that is going to try to draw your attention away. And sometimes that's important enough that it needs to draw your attention away from your business and what you're doing.

All other times much of the time, you got to keep focused on what you're working on. Because you're doing something here you're changing the world, hopefully with your products and services in whatever small way that you possibly can.

If that's the case, I'm going to recommend that you really stay emotionally balanced. And like I say, you really got to be grounded. You have to be grounded in reality. That's one of our main, our main pillars here at BrianJPombo.com.

So I've read this one before I believe on on our chats.

I think this is a great time to read it again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCZDE5HYv7o&feature=youtu.be

Some thoughts on reachout to your base with time-sensitive events.

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Do you use controversy in your business?

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

I'll set the scene for you, okay.

This is we're currently in January of 2021. Technically, it is the fifth, tomorrow is the sixth, we're coming up. By the time you see this, it may already be the sixth, seventh and beyond.

And the reason why I'm bringing this up is because there's a lot of controversy brewing. There was a whole lot of controversy around the 2020 elections in November, and still a whole lot of arguments about who actually won the presidency.

So you've got loads hordes of people going to Washington, DC, and the other places around the world, throughout I mean, they're they're going to be marching here in town, they're going to be marching at all the different capital cities and so forth.

All in support of President Trump against the what appears to be the incoming president of Joe Biden. And there'll be people counter protesting those protests and everything else.

At the same time, there's all this controversy going on about how they're actually going to count the electors ballots, as they see them coming in.

You know, do you count the alternative ones that were sent in from different states?

You know, do you send it back to the states for them to determine which ones they should choose the legislature's in accordance with the Constitution, all this stuff?

So lots of craziness, lots of controversy. And I can go on and on about what all that means.

But here's my question to you, when situations like this come up, and they come up a lot in America nowadays, do you use controversy in your business?

Do you use it as a chance to reach out to your customer base?

Maybe you send out emails, maybe you have a newsletter?

Maybe you do video chats like this, or use any type of social media?

Do you take events of the day that have a controversial charge, and use it to your advantage?

Now, it doesn't necessarily mean that you take a side, but it doesn't mean you don't either. You can take a side if you think that, that it is going to especially if it's going to help your business.

And if you think it's going to play toward your customer base, and you don't mind really turning off a huge portion of people out there, you will turn on a whole lot more people just by bringing up your opinion.

But even if you don't bring up your opinion, can you take the controversy of the day and compare it back to what you're trying to basically sell? You know, whether it be product services? or what have you?

Can you use controversy to at least initially get attention to at least have that hook to bring people in to start talking about that, bring them into the conversation that you need to have to talk eventually, about what it is that you're trying to get them to do? whatever that may be. So hopefully that makes sense.

And you say, well, should you use controversy?

Where I'm well, yeah, I just did I just use it, if I wanted to be much more timely, I can put an actual headline that has to do with the news it...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FXhnioz8hQ&feature=youtu.be

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 iss...