Summary: <br> <br> <a href="http://brianjpombo.com/5-excruciating-steps-to-become-a-business-strategist/"></a><br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <a href="http://DreamBizChat.com">http://DreamBizChat.com</a><br> <br> <br> <br> Five excruciating steps to become a business strategist. Hi I’m Brian Pombo, welcome back to the Orange Office here in Grants Pass, Oregon. Tonight we’re going to be talking about what led me to become a business strategist.<br> <br> <br> <br> Kind of give you a little bit of background about me because I’m always being asked, “you know, how did you end up in this field?” “Do you have degrees,” and so on and so forth about this.<br> <br> <br> <br> So I’m gonna just give you a brief background of this and also let you know that if you are a business owner or an executive in the self-reliance field, meaning that you have products or services that help people become more self-reliant, that again can depend more upon themselves as opposed to on others.<br> <br> <br> <br> Be a little bit more independent. If that describes you, go to DreamBizChat.com watch the quick video there. I’m not selling anything. Merely talking about the chance that you can have a free chat with me. <br> <br> <br> <br> Normally I charge $600 and above a for strategy sessions like this. If you happen to be in that field, if you happen to be in a decision maker position, you’re someone I’d like to talk to, go to DreamBizChat.com, talks all about the dream business transformation. <br> <br> <br> <br> Like I said, just a quick video. <br> <br> <br> <br> Go take a look, let me know if you’re interested or if you don’t like the video, let me know. I’d love to hear it.<br> <br> <br> <br> So let’s talk about business strategy or really what led me to business strategy, which is a really strange world. I’m going to start, a few years back, let’s see….around around 2007, I started out working with a national radio talk show host, actually with a few radio talk show hosts.<br> <br> <br> <br> But I would talk about one specifically in which I was brought on to help out with Internet basic basic internet outreach and social media. And I ended up going a lot into podcasting because it was when podcasting was first starting out.<br> <br> <br> <br> So I was brought on board. Did I have any background on this? No. I had no degrees in online anything because of my age.<br> <br> <br> <br> I’m 40 now, so that kind of gives you an idea, but you could do the math. Back in 2007 where I was at that time, there weren’t a whole lot of people that had a whole lot of ideas concerning social media, podcasting, and I had some experience just as a consumer and as someone that’s a pretty quick learn.<br> <br> <br> <br> I knew a little bit of html and I knew some basic internet stuff, so I was hired to kind of help out in that area.<br> <br> <br> <br> Now as I was helping out in that area, I found that certain things, certain forms of blogging, certain forms of podcasting was getting attention from the search engines.<br> <br> <br> <br> Back then Yahoo was still relatively still had a little bit of pull and especially Google. You can see, if you did certain things on your website, if you did certain things with your social media, you got attention from Google and Yahoo and that became a field known as search engine optimization, otherwise known as SEO.<br> <br> <br> <br> So when I went all out on my own, SEO was still relatively new craft. And so I learned all about SEO. I got hired from a number of local people and people just kind of referrals and I got to learn all about search engine optimization. I could help somebody if they had a local business, if they had a larger business, be able to control a certain amount of what they got...
