IAM1234 – The Power of Connections
Visibility + Resources x Connections = Success
Blue16 Media is a digital marketing agency with a goal to change lives using media and technology.
The equation that makes up the content of our site is:
Visibility + Resources x Connections = Success
Virtual Global Chamber – if you know the right person, you connect with the right person then things can really take off.
CBNation creates a better connection amongst people, it’s like a hub, with profiles, opportunities, and directories of different profiles – people you might want to connect with.
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00:22 – Intro
Do you want to learn effective ways to build relationships, generate sales, and grow your business from successful entrepreneurs, startups, and CEOs without listening to a long, long, long interview? If so, you've come to the right place. Gresham Harkness values your time and is ready to share with you precisely the information you're in search of. This is the I AM CEO podcast.
00:49 – Gresham Harkless
Hello. Hello. Hello. This is Gresh from the I AM CEO podcast and this is episode no. 1234 of the I AM CEO podcast. I hope you are easing into 2022. You've had a phenomenal start to the year. It's obviously an interesting time, with it being a new year, getting to start everything off on a new foot, I guess. And I'm not a big believer in like, okay, the clock strikes, so I'm a new person, but I am a big believer in there's energy around a new year. So I don't think anybody can deny that and getting to start new, but I think don't feel as if the clock striking means that you have to change now.
You can start to make those changes now, next month, the previous 30 days, start to build momentum into your life and knowing that every month, every day is a new day, is a new month, is a new hour, is a new second, is a new minute, you get to start new. If you wanna rewrite your script or redirect it, you definitely have the power within you to do that. So as you have heard, I've gone through each of the questions I usually ask for the podcast. I always ask a kind of question at the end, which is just if there's anything additional that you want to let readers and listeners know, which you heard in episode no. 1233 of the I AM CEO podcast, and how best people can get a hold of you, which is where we're at now.
Episode 1234 the I AM CEO podcast. So I didn't really know exactly what I wanted to do with this podcast as far as this episode and how I wanted to change things and how I could take anything more than 30 seconds by saying, hey, you could get in touch with me this way or that way. But what came to me recently, and I want to further emphasize is the equation that I say makes up each of the different pieces of content on our site. And that's visibility plus resources, times connections equal success. The time's connections part is really where we're at right now.
One of the things that I've been working on, excited to kind of talk about into the new year, is for lack of a better term, this virtual global chamber that's kind of based all around, you know, the content and information. And the thing that I'm most excited about is hearing about that, but also hearing in Florida, there's this chamber of commerce, I believe the Southwest Florida Chamber of Commerce that actually has a free mail model. And there's other models and there's other, you know, constant information that I've read around, you know, having a free mail model, what that looks like, how to execute that and so many different aspects. And that's really that connection piece that I'm submitting. We listened to a previous podcast, maybe about a year or 2 years ago.
I said visibility plus resources equals success. The reason I said times connections is because if you know the right person, you connect with the right person, things can really take off. It doesn't matter if you don't feel like you have the resources that you want to have. It doesn't matter if you don't necessarily feel like you have the visibility that you have. If you have the right person, if you know the right person, if you're in touch with the right person, you have those connections, those relationships with that person basically go to another level. So from a very technical standpoint, connections are one of those strong pieces that I want us to add to the success equation that we want to have as far as what we do.
Same reason I ask every episode, how best people can get ahold of you, is that connection piece. The same reason that I try to kind of reach out to people who have been featured on our blogs before is that connection piece. The same reason that we reach out via social media to try to get people to be on the podcast is that connection piece. How can those connections that you have potentially take these to another level? So what we're doing through CB Nation is becoming a lot more of a hub with profiles, opportunities, and a directory of different profiles as well to people that have been featured on the site, but also people that you might wanna connect with.
That's one of the first steps that we're taking in order to create a better connection among people who are on the sites. Of course, you're gonna be able to kind of search within that community to find people and maybe do some things that you're looking for. So are you looking for potentially a business coach? You'll be able to search to do that. Do you want somebody that's local to your area? You'll be able to search to do that. So these are some of the things that are kind of building out directly through people who have participated on our site or people who have just signed up. So hopefully we could get a fuller, more complete, accurate picture of CEOs, entrepreneurs, and business owners, the business community as a whole.
Now, of course, there are different platforms that focus on that, LinkedIn as well too, but our big kind of differentiator is that we're our secret sauce, maybe I should say, is actually that we're hoping to have our content, the opportunity for people to engage with our content in different and unique ways as a way to kind of provide that glue. So what I mean, delving down a little bit deeper, if you're listening to this and you've been featured on the show or if you're listening to this, maybe you've been featured on our blog or potentially in one of our videos or something along those lines, you might have had that connection piece.
We want that to be the glue that brings everything together. It's that piece of content that really provides that opportunity to connect. It's not just us saying, okay, I wanna connect with you. You wanna connect with me, but it's really a deeper connection that we're hopefully, hopefully, happy to have by leveraging content and co-creating content and co-creating podcasts and creating different pieces. So obviously we've created a tremendous amount of content. That's going to be the basis by which, you know, that found that that site's going to thrive. And you should definitely go there, of course. I have a profile that you can check out, the profile that I have there.
If you go to imgrash.com, you will be able to see a link that goes directly to that profile. You can check out and see some of the things that I'm working on. Some of the things that I've liked as an opportunity to also be connected with strategic partners are things along those lines. So The idea, again, is to connect. And you hear this so many times. I think there are very few people who actually go the extra mile and will make the phone call, will reach out to the person, will read a book, will download whatever it is, and might be the free offer. So don't be that person. Go that extra mile. Don't be the person who doesn't do it, be the person who does do it.
Never rephrase that. So that you do know so many things happen from just having a conversation. So many things happen from building a relationship. So many things happen from having that connection piece. And that's why it's times connections because connections could take things to another level in your business, in your life, and not just talking in our present tense, but talking generationally. Things can be completely changed just because of that connection that you have. So hopefully we get the opportunity to connect. Hopefully, you reach out to me as well.
Truly appreciate you for listening to this, like a little bit of a new series, a little bit of a new thing going into 2022. Hopefully, we'll have more kind of curve balls or maybe disruptive pieces of content that we can kind of create. Looking forward to this new year, hopefully getting started off phenomenally for you. Remember, take the time out to connect, take the time out to have a conversation. Phenomenal things can definitely come from there. And that's why we're visibility plus resources times connections equals success. So this is Gresh signing out, have a phenomenal day. And of course, you can reach out to me. As I mentioned, imgresh.com and also bleu16media.com, but happy 2022. If you haven't heard it already take care, stay safe and God bless.
08:40 – Outro
Thank you for listening to the I AM CEO Podcast powered by Blue 16 Media. Tune in next time and visit us at iamceo.co I AM CEO is not just a phrase, it's a community. Be sure to follow us on social media and subscribe to our podcast on iTunes Google Play and everywhere you listen to podcasts, SUBSCRIBE, and leave us a five-star rating grab CEO gear at www.ceogear.co. This has been the I AM CEO Podcast with Gresham Harkless. Thank you for listening.
00:22 - Intro
Do you want to learn effective ways to build relationships, generate sales, and grow your business from successful entrepreneurs, startups, and CEOs without listening to a long, long, long interview? If so, you've come to the right place. Gresham Harkness values your time and is ready to share with you precisely the information you're in search of. This is the I AM CEO podcast.
00:49 - Gresham Harkless
Hello. Hello. Hello. This is Grash from the I AM CEO podcast and this is episode no. 1234 of the I AM CEO podcast. I hope you are easing into 2022. You've had a phenomenal start to the year. It's obviously an interesting time, with it being a new year, getting to start everything off on a new foot, I guess. And I'm not a big believer in like, okay, the clock strikes, so I'm a new person, but I am a big believer in there's energy around a new year. So I don't think anybody can deny that and getting to start new, but I think don't feel as if the clock striking means that you have to change now.
You can start to make those changes now, next month, the previous 30 days, start to build momentum into your life and knowing that every month, every day is a new day, is a new month, is a new hour, is a new second, is a new minute, you get to start new. If you wanna rewrite your script or redirect it, you definitely have the power within you to do that. So as you have heard, I've gone through each of the questions I usually ask for the podcast. I always ask a kind of question at the end, which is just if there's anything additional that you want to let readers and listeners know, which you heard in episode no. 1233 of the I AM CEO podcast, and how best people can get a hold of you, which is where we're at now.
Episode 1234 the I AM CEO podcast. So I didn't really know exactly what I wanted to do with this podcast as far as this episode and how I wanted to change things and how I could take anything more than 30 seconds by saying, hey, you could get in touch with me this way or that way. But what came to me recently, and I want to further emphasize is the equation that I say makes up each of the different pieces of content on our site. And that's visibility plus resources, times connections equal success. The time's connections part is really where we're at right now.
One of the things that I've been working on, excited to kind of talk about into the new year, is for lack of a better term, this virtual global chamber that's kind of based all around, you know, the content and information. And the thing that I'm most excited about is hearing about that, but also hearing in Florida, there's this chamber of commerce, I believe the Southwest Florida Chamber of Commerce that actually has a free mail model. And there's other models and there's other, you know, constant information that I've read around, you know, having a free mail model, what that looks like, how to execute that and so many different aspects. And that's really that connection piece that I'm submitting. We listened to a previous podcast, maybe about a year or 2 years ago.
I said visibility plus resources equals success. The reason I said times connections is because if you know the right person, you connect with the right person, things can really take off. It doesn't matter if you don't feel like you have the resources that you want to have. It doesn't matter if you don't necessarily feel like you have the visibility that you have. If you have the right person, if you know the right person, if you're in touch with the right person, you have those connections, those relationships with that person basically go to another level. So from a very technical standpoint, connections are one of those strong pieces that I want us to add to the success equation that we want to have as far as what we do.
Same reason I ask every episode, how best people can get ahold of you, is that connection piece. The same reason that I try to kind of reach out to people who have been featured on our blogs before is that connection piece. The same reason that we reach out via social media to try to get people to be on the podcast is that connection piece. How can those connections that you have potentially take these to another level? So what we're doing on through CB Nation is CB Nation is becoming a lot more of a hub with profiles, opportunities, directory of different profiles as well to people that have been featured on the site, but also people that you might wanna connect with.
That's one of the first steps that we're taking in order to create a better connection among people who are on the sites. Of course, you're gonna be able to kind of search within that community to find people and maybe do some things that you're looking for. So are you looking for potentially a business coach? You'll be able to search to do that. Do you want somebody that's local to your area? You'll be able to search to do that. So these are some of the things that are kind of building out directly through people who have participated on our site or people who have just signed up. So hopefully we could get a fuller, more complete, accurate picture of CEOs, entrepreneurs, and business owners, the business community as a whole.
Now, of course, there are different platforms that focus on that, LinkedIn as well too, but our big kind of differentiator is that we're our secret sauce, maybe I should say, is actually that we're hoping to have our content, the opportunity for people to engage with our content in different and unique ways as a way to kind of provide that glue. So what I mean, delving down a little bit deeper, if you're listening to this and you've been featured on the show or if you're listening to this, maybe you've been featured on our blog or potentially in one of our videos or something along those lines, you might have had that connection piece.
We want that to be the glue that brings everything together. It's that piece of content that really provides that opportunity to connect. It's not just us saying, okay, I wanna connect with you. You wanna connect with me, but it's really a deeper connection that we're hopefully, hopefully, happy to have by leveraging content and co-creating content and co-creating podcasts and creating different pieces. So obviously we've created a tremendous amount of content. That's going to be the basis by which, you know, that found that that site's going to thrive. And you should definitely go there, of course. I have a profile that you can check out, the profile that I have there.
If you go to imgrash.com, you will be able to see a link that goes directly to that profile. You can check out and see some of the things that I'm working on. Some of the things that I've liked as an opportunity to also be connected with strategic partners are things along those lines. So The idea, again, is to connect. And you hear this so many times. I think there are very few people who actually go the extra mile and will make the phone call, will reach out to the person, will read a book, will download whatever it is, and might be the free offer. So don't be that person. Go that extra mile. Don't be the person who doesn't do it, be the person who does do it.
Never rephrase that. So that you do know so many things happen from just having a conversation. So many things happen from building a relationship. So many things happen from having that connection piece. And that's why it's times connections because connections could take things to another level in your business, in your life, and not just talking in our present tense, but talking generationally. Things can be completely changed just because of that connection that you have. So hopefully we get the opportunity to connect. Hopefully, you reach out to me as well.
Truly appreciate you for listening to this, like a little bit of a new series, a little bit of a new thing going into 2022. Hopefully, we'll have more kind of curve balls or maybe disruptive pieces of content that we can kind of create. Looking forward to this new year, hopefully getting started off phenomenally for you. Remember, take the time out to connect, take the time out to have a conversation. Phenomenal things can definitely come from there. And that's why we're visibility plus resources times connections equals success. So this is Gresh signing out, have a phenomenal day. And of course, you can reach out to me. As I mentioned, imgresh.com and also bleu16media.com, but happy 2022. If you haven't heard it already take care, stay safe and God bless.
08:40 - Outro
Thank you for listening to the I AM CEO Podcast powered by Blue 16 Media. Tune in next time and visit us at iamceo.co I AM CEO is not just a phrase, it's a community. Be sure to follow us on social media and subscribe to our podcast on iTunes Google Play and everywhere you listen to podcasts, SUBSCRIBE, and leave us a five-star rating grab CEO gear at www.ceogear.co. This has been the I AM CEO Podcast with Gresham Harkless. Thank you for listening.
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