We'll be sitting down tomorrow, Monday, Aug 17th at 8am CST, with fellow veteran entrepreneur @John Pogue for a conversation for the Veteran Business Community. John is a Navy veteran who has spent nearly 20 years in digital marketing, helping businesses better understand their customers, leverage technology, and grow. We're going to talk marketing, AI, automation, sales funnels, and what's actually working for small businesses right now. If you're trying to figure out how AI and digital marketing fit into your business, join us. Bring your questions. We'll get into it. Register here: https://www.linkedin.com/events/7494732274911834112

Check it out in the Live Stream Replay Classroom: We discussed: - How he started in Residential Real Estate then grew a portfolio of businesses to Commercial Real Estate, Business Consulting, Mergers & Acquisitions. - - When and why, he left his W-2 job to run his sports complex - - Why COVID actually made his business stronger.

He is a wealth of small business knowledge. The link is in the Calendar.

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LinkedIn gives us the green #OpenToWork ring, which is useful. But what about people who are not looking for a traditional job? What about consultants, founders, speakers, authors, freelancers, coaches, veterans, or business owners? I kept looking at that little green ring and thinking: Why should the message stop at #OpenToWork? What if it said: #OpenToConsult Available for Projects Veteran Owned Book Me to Speak Founder YourWebsite.com LinkedIn does not currently offer those choices. That is where my motto kicks in: Don’t tell me it can’t be done! So I made a simple Customer GPT I captured my existing profile image, replaced the green ring, changed the wording, tested new colors, and turned it into a branded profile badge. Here is the link: https://chatgpt.com/g/g-6a6554ecf3788191b0b02adb3f89388d-profile-branding-ring-pogue-digital-solutions If you could replace #OpenToWork with any message, what would your profile ring say? Drop your idea below.