Summary: <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Episode 25.<br> <br> <br> <br> This is "Part 2." Be sure to listen to "Part 1" here: <a href="http://offthegridbiz.com/rick-elara-bowman-backyard-green-films-part-1">http://offthegridbiz.com/rick-elara-bowman-backyard-green-films-part-1</a><br> <br> <br> <br> Do you use events (topic-based and trade shows) to grow your business and interact with customers? Is it worth the expense and time?<br> <br> <br> <br> Rick Bowman is audio and video producer. Elara Bowman is a project manager and accountant. Together they have teamed up to travel country to record and promulgate the stories of incredible people and a monumental dilemma that everyone.<br> <br> <br> <br> Here we continue the conversation we began on the last episode and dive deep into attending events and long-term goals.<br> <br> <br> <br> Listen Now!<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> * Find out more about Rick, Elara and Backyard Green Films: <a href="https://backyardgreenfilms.com/">https://backyardgreenfilms.com/</a><br> * Watch their videos on YouTube: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnQm6NOFcMrvJQrv09Xzt6w">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnQm6NOFcMrvJQrv09Xzt6w</a><br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Find out the business events secrets for growing and strengthening ANY company: <a href="http://brianjpombo.com/secrets/">http://brianjpombo.com/secrets/</a><br> Full Transcript<br> Rick: First off, having the film out there is to me the biggest thing.<br> Elara: Yes, my big thing too.<br> Rick: Because I feel like that will open up our audience a little bit more towards maybe wanting to listen to our podcast as well going and maybe becoming more interested in heritage breeds and seeing some of our clips of interviews that we've put up on our YouTube channel. Hopefully what I'm thinking with the film is that it'll be able to venture off and be able to make another film that continues the story of heritage breeds and of farmers.<br> Podcast Intro: If you're someone who refuses to go along to get along, if you question whether the status quo was good enough for you and your family. If you want to leave this world better off than you found it and you consider independence a sacred thing. You may be a prepper, a gardener, a homesteader, a survivalist, or a farmer or rancher, an environmentalist or a rugged outdoorsman.We are here to celebrate you whether you're looking to improve your maverick business or to find out more about the latest products and services available to the weekend rebel.From selling chicken eggs online, to building up your food storage or collecting handmade soap.This show is for those who choose the road less traveled the road to self-reliance for those that are living a daring adventure, life off the grid.<br> Brian: Looking back on just what you've done up until now going to events like the Mother Earth News Fair, like the Heirloom Expo, would you recommend other people plug into the same type of events?<br> Elara: I think it's very individual depending on the type of business they have. And here's one of the problems that has occurred. I mean is anybody in business knows we are going through a fundamental shift in not only the way we do business, how we do business, how we finance, how we market, there's a huge shift. And I would say businesses have to be really really agile in order to adapt quickly.<br> Because a lot of storefronts are going out of business because you know, people don't come in the door anymore. You just order it online.<br> You know, you might have strategic partnerships between similar businesses are completely different businesses and you really have to stay up on that in order to be able to compete with people that can.<br> In a way, our experience has been very similar to the animals you have to adapt to survi...
