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Smart Business Revolution | Turn Relationships into Revenues | Networking | More Clients | Relationship Advice

"Top 100 Small Business Podcasts 2014" -- Small Biz Trends. Former Clinton White House Writer John Corcoran shows you how to build relationships intelligently to get more clients, grow your income and advance your career. Discover how you can use win-win networking and intentional relationship-building with Influencers and VIPs, even if you "hate networking" or feel like you have "nothing to offer" people who are successful. Interviews with today's top entrepreneurs and authors such as Dan Pink, Michael Port, Gary Vaynerchuk, Marie Forleo and Guy Kawasaki, who reveal how they use relationships to grow their businesses and their incomes. Find out more at SmartBusinessRevolution.com.
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Wade Wyant | From Two Business Failures to 80 Employees and $30+ Million in Revenue

Wade Wyant is a seasoned entrepreneur, business coach, and author. His most recent company is called Redegades, which helps families protect their digital privacy and safety. Wade is a longtime entrepreneur, Scaling Up coach, and executive advisor focused on mid-market companies as they scale into industry-dominating businesses. He is also a member of YPO and EO, and served as President of the EO West Michigan chapter and in the leadership of YPO. One of Wade’s past startups was a technology com...

Mar 18, 202235 min

Dr. Jeremy Weisz | How to Launch A Podcast Successfully

Dr. Jeremy Weisz is the Co-founder of Rise25, a company that helps B2B business owners connect with their ideal prospects, referral partners, and strategic partners through a done-for-you podcast service. Dr. Weisz has been involved in podcasting for 11 years and was a senior producer for one of the early business podcasts; he assisted in putting all of their systems in place and helped them add volume, feature, and edify various business leaders. Dr. Weisz has also been running his own podcast,...

Mar 14, 202214 min

Abeer Qumsieh | EO Jordan | Losing It All and Rebuilding After the Pandemic

Abeer Qumsieh is the Founder and CEO of Khibraty and Better Business, which is based in Jordan. Her company has been deep in the team-building activity space in the Middle Eastern region. She has extensive expertise in organizational development and transformation, service culture development, and organizational mindset. Abeer is also an investor and a philanthropist. In this episode of the Smart Business Revolution Podcast , John Corcoran interviews Abeer Qumsieh, the Founder and CEO of Better ...

Mar 11, 202216 min

Marty McDonald | How One Digital Marketing Agency Combined Their Passions with Their Strengths

Marty McDonaldis the Co-founder and CEO of Bad Rhino, a full-service digital marketing agency based outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He has been in the digital marketing world since 2002 and has consulted with all kinds of small businesses and startups, helping them succeed online. Today, Bad Rhino is a social media marketing and digital agency that services clients locally, nationally, and globally, especially in the world of beer and golf. They've won top social media agency awards.Marty...

Mar 07, 202238 min

Dr. Jeremy Weisz | How to Be a Gold Medalist at B2B Podcasting

Dr. Jeremy Weisz is the Co-founder of Rise25, a company that helps B2B business owners connect with their ideal prospects, referral partners, and strategic partners through a done-for-you podcast service. Dr. Weisz has been involved in podcasting for 11 years and was a senior producer for one of the early business podcasts; he assisted in putting all of their systems in place and helped them add volume, feature, and edify various business leaders. Dr. Weisz has also been running his own podcast,...

Mar 04, 202223 min

David Nilssen | Magic Johnson, Outsourcing Versus Offshoring, and Advocating for Education Worldwide

David Nilssen is the Co-founder and CEO of Doxa7, which helps businesses build high-performing global teams in the Philippines. He’s also the Co-founder and CEO of Guidant Financial, which has helped over 25,000 entrepreneurs to secure $6 billion to start or buy a business. David and his business partner received the National Young Entrepreneur of the Year award in 2007 from the Small Business Administration (SBA) as well as seven-time Best Places to Work on Array. David is also an active invest...

Feb 28, 202223 min

Robert Clinkenbeard | The Ironman Mindset for Entrepreneurs

Robert Clinkenbeard is the Owner of The Radix Group, which provides leadership and coaching programs for CEOs, presidents, and business owners. He founded and sold his $20 million business 15 years after immigrating from Scotland to the US. He is a respected Entrepreneurs' Organization (EO) leader and mentor and published two books including Ironman Mindset for Entrepreneurs, which has helped him become a sought-after speaker at many global events. Robert is also a disciplined athlete who has co...

Feb 25, 202227 min

Ashtan Moore | [Top Agency Series] Raised by Hippies and Building Businesses

Ashtan Moore is a Co-founder and Partner at Model B, a Washington, DC and Atlanta-based digital marketing agency that helps companies and entrepreneurs increase sales, communicate with key audiences, and drive influence in the marketplace. He is also the Co-founder and Advisor to Ironclad Accounting and Finance and is a member of Entrepreneurs' Organization (EO) Washington, DC chapter. With a background in engineering, Ashtan built Model B’s digital marketing platforms to employ smart algorithms...

Feb 21, 202239 min

Mark O'Brien | [Top Agency Series] Rising Up the Ranks From Intern and Doing Sales to Becoming the CEO and Owner of Newfangled

Mark O'Brien is the CEO of Newfangled, a digital marketing consultancy for digital and traditional marketing firms. They help creative and digital agencies develop new business opportunities. Mark started working at Newfangled in 2000 as an intern before rising up the ranks to become the President and CEO of the company. He bought it over a five-year term from 2009 to 2013. In this episode of the Smart Business Revolution Podcast , John Corcoran interviews Mark O'Brien, the CEO of Newfangled, ab...

Feb 18, 202242 min

Keith Fiscus | From Combat Medic to Growing and Scaling a New Business in a New Industry

Keith Fiscus is the Founder and CEO of Innovative Career Resources and Staffing, a professional recruiting and staffing firm specializing in accounting, finance, biotechnology, pharmaceutical, nutraceutical, customer experience, and executive administrative professionals. He is based in Orange County, California. Keith is also a proud veteran of the United States Army (Airborne). After completing his enlistment in the Army, he parlayed his experience as a combat medic into a career in the health...

Feb 14, 202229 min

Peter Gerritsen | [Top Agency Series] Innovating and Leading a 100-Year-Old Agency Peer Group

Peter Gerritsen is the President of Taan Worldwide, a network of different member advertising agencies operating in 30 countries and 60 cities worldwide with over 50 member companies. He's also a 30-year veteran working inside agencies, and he's a speaker and thought leader for agencies. In this episode of the Smart Business Revolution Podcast , John Corcoran features the President of Taan Worldwide, Peter Gerritsen, to discuss the top challenges agencies face today. They talk about how Peter be...

Feb 11, 202251 min

David Bartholomeusz | Lessons From Exiting an Entertainment Business, Dealing With Childhood Trauma, and Guiding Leaders

David Bartholomeusz is a serial entrepreneur and a Facilitator at the Entrepreneurs' Organization (EO). He specializes in empowering entrepreneurial leaders and building communication habitats in which communities thrive. He is also a strategy and alignment guide, vision leader, and marketing strategist. David holds a degree in law and spent many years working in the professional entertainment industry. In this episode of the Smart Business Revolution Podcast, John Corcoran interviews David Bart...

Feb 07, 202237 min

Lisa Vitale | The Journey to Leadership and Building Apps to Support a Service Business

Lisa Vitale is the President of SimplyDIRECT and of Entrepreneurs'​ Organization (EO) Boston chapter. She has more than 20 years of experience in marketing strategy at SimplyDIRECT, focusing on delivering client campaigns on schedule and on spec. Lisa started at SimplyDIRECT as CFO and previously worked for the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and PJA Advertising + Marketing. She has been a member of EO Boston since 2013 and will remain the President-Elect until June 2023. In this episode of the Smart...

Feb 04, 202228 min

Ian Burnstein | Surviving Encephalitis, TIGER 21, and Building a Self-Storage Empire

Ian Burnstein is the Co-founder and COO of Storage Pros Management (SPM). He is a former attorney turned real estate and self-storage entrepreneur who has invested in multi-family, RV parks, self-storage, and cannabis dispensary sale-leaseback sectors. He has been a part of more than $500,000,000 in transactions since 2015. Ian is currently an investor and the Chair of a TIGER 21 peer group, Owner of Storage Business Owners Alliance (SBOA), and President of SBOA Tenant Insurance. He is also invo...

Jan 31, 202236 min

Dr. Jeremy Weisz | "I Don't Have Time to Start a Podcast" & 10+ Reasons How Podcasting Will Save You Time

Dr. Jeremy Weisz is the Co-founder of Rise25, a company that helps B2B business owners connect with their ideal prospects, referral partners, and strategic partners through a done-for-you podcast service. Dr. Weisz has been involved in podcasting for 11 years and was a senior producer for one of the early business podcasts; he assisted in putting all of their systems in place and helped them add volume, feature, and edify various business leaders. Dr. Weisz has also been running his own podcast,...

Jan 28, 202227 min

Leonard Goldberg | Flying Private Jets, Palm Beach Billionaires, and Scaling Up a Charter Plane Company

Leonard Goldberg is a commercial pilot, flight instructor, and the Owner and President of Gold Aviation Services. He is an aeronautical entrepreneur who owns an aircraft charter management, maintenance, sales, and acquisition company. He also appears in various videos and programs about selling jets and has several YouTube appearances on Flying Doodles and Sailing Doodles for Bahamian hurricane relief. Leonard is also involved in philanthropy where he and his wife actively support the Gilda's Cl...

Jan 24, 202240 min

David Anderson | From Fraternity President to the White House to Worldwide Advocate for Entrepreneurs

David Anderson is the Founder of Off Madison Ave. He went from President of his college fraternity to the White House and is now a seasoned entrepreneur and current Chair of the Global Board of Directors for Entrepreneurs' Organization (EO), which is made up of 16,000 members in over 62 countries. EO’s mission is to engage leading entrepreneurs to learn, grow, and reach their full potential. David is also the Founder of LighthousePE, a mobile marketing platform-as-a-service that connects consume...

Jan 21, 202249 min

Robert Rose | How to Generate Ideas, Create Content, and Optimize Marketing Strategies

Robert Rose is the Founder and self-proclaimed Chief Troublemaker at The Content Advisory. For more than 10 years, Robert has worked with more than 500 companies including 15 of the Fortune 100 companies. He has provided strategic marketing advice and counsel for global brands such as Facebook, Salesforce, NASA, CVS Health, McCormick Spices, Hewlett Packard, Microsoft, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. He is also the author of three best-selling books including Killing Marketing, which ...

Jan 17, 202255 min

Andrew Warner | Stop Asking Questions You Don't Care About And Other Top Interview Strategies From a Podcasting Legend

Andrew Warner is the Founder of Mixergy, where he interviews entrepreneurs and founders to help teach others how to build successful companies. He is one of the early leaders in podcasting with over a decade in recording interviews. Andrew mined the transcripts from his numerous interviews and used them to create a new book called Stop Asking Questions: How to Lead High-Impact Interviews and Learn Anything from Anyone. In this episode of the Smart Business Revolution Podcast, John Corcoran is jo...

Jan 14, 202240 min

Gordon C. James | Working at the White House, Serving President George H.W. Bush, and Working in Baghdad

Gordon C. James is the Founder and Owner of Gordon C. James Public Relations, a full-service public relations agency with offices in Phoenix, Arizona and Washington, DC. Gordon became friends with President George H.W. Bush dating back to the late 1970s and spent 20 years in a variety of different business and political positions. After the 1988 presidential election, Gordon joined President Bush's staff at the White House serving as his Lead Advance Representative and as Director of Invitations...

Jan 10, 202244 min

Verne Harnish | How to Craft a Compensation Scheme That Attracts and Motivates the Right People For Your Company

Verne Harnish is the Founder of the world-renowned Entrepreneurs' Organization (EO), which has over 16,000 members worldwide. He is also the Founder of Scaling Up, a global executive education and coaching company with over 200 partners on six continents. Verne is the author of multiple books, the latest being Scaling Up Compensation: 5 Design Principles for Turning Your Largest Expense into a Strategic Advantage. He also wrote the best-sellers Mastering the Rockefeller Habits, The Greatest Busi...

Jan 07, 202242 min

David C. Baker | The Business of Expertise: How Entrepreneurial Firms & Agencies Can Grow Today

David C. Baker is the Principal of ReCourses, Inc. He is an author, speaker, and advisor to entrepreneurial creatives worldwide. He has written five books, three of which focus on the central elements of the business of expertise: positioning, financial management, and leadership. David has worked with more than 900 firms, and his work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal , NY Times , USA Today, Fast Company , Inc. Magazine , Forbes , MarketingProfs, Businessweek , and CBS. His most rece...

Jan 03, 202234 min

Evan Nierman | How to Turn Negative News into Great PR

Evan Nierman is the Founder and CEO of Red Banyan, an international crisis management and public relations firm based out of Washington, DC. Evan and his team have provided counsel to a wide group of different celebrities, political leaders, corporate and private clients, and CEOs to help them navigate all kinds of sticky situations. He is also the Author of the best-selling book Crisis Averted: PR Strategies to Protect Your Reputation and the Bottom Line . In this episode of the Smart Business ...

Dec 31, 202130 min

Carolyn Lowe | Business Growth Lessons from Dell, Costco, and Amazon

Carolyn Lowe founded ROI Swift in 2015. She helps consumer brands get expert help on Amazon, including paid ads for Facebook and Instagram, paid search and email marketing, and all other related fields that are relevant for businesses selling on Amazon. She did this after finding that many small businesses were being taken advantage of by agencies that charge a lot and don't give great results. Carolyn worked in a variety of consumer marketing leadership positions at Dell, ran global marketing a...

Dec 27, 202122 min

Jeff Goldscher | Combining a Passion for Sports with Creative Marketing Strategies

Jeff Goldscher is the Principal and Outsourced Chief Marketing Officer at JK Squared. He has been an advertising and marketing professional since 1993, working on behalf of global brands like Comcast, Microsoft, Choice Hotels, Target, and the National Football League. He started and built three different businesses including an advertising agency and a sports marketing agency, both named multiple times to the Inc. 5000 list. Jeff was a state finalist for Ernst and Young’s Entrepreneur of the Yea...

Dec 24, 202145 min

Scott Empringham | [Top Agency Series] Scaling an Agency to Over $10M, Losing It All, and Rebounding in 14 Months

Scott Empringham is the Owner and CEO of Empringham Media Group. For more than 21 years, his passion has been helping Fortune 50 companies to break through the clutter using digital marketing and social media to drive results in areas that matter most — customer retention and acquisition. Scott’s mission is to share his digital marketing and social media expertise to drive new business, retain current customers, and conquest the competition. Scott is also a member of Entrepreneurs' Organization ...

Dec 20, 202131 min

Stu Wolff | Growing to Over $1 Billion in Sales, Breaking Up with a Business Partner, and Financial Peer Groups

Stu Wolff is a seasoned entrepreneur, business coach, Certified EOS Implementer, and Detroit Chair of TIGER 21. He started a company providing sales and marketing assistance in the food services industry back in 1997, changed ownership, and then rebranded as The Wolff Group which he built up to 40 employees managing sales of $140 million. Stu then started working with Gino Wickman, the Founder of EOS (Entrepreneurial Operating System), and with the help of a great leadership team, grew his compa...

Dec 17, 202143 min

Nick Leighton | [Top Agency Series] Getting Held Hostage and Breaking into the Playboy Mansion

Nick Leighton is an agency owner, founder, and serial entrepreneur with over 25 years of experience working across the globe in North America, South America, Europe, and the Middle East. He owns and operates a coaching and peer advisory board agency, an international marketing agency, and a project management company. Nick is the Author of the book, Exactly Where You Want To Be: A Business Owner's Guide To Passion, Profit and Happiness. He also does professional speaking and executive coaching f...

Dec 13, 202129 min

Kent Gregoire | [Conscious Leader Series] Launching Over a Dozen Businesses and Promoting Conscious Capitalism

Kent Gregoire is the Founder and CEO of Symphony Advantage. He is a serial entrepreneur who launched his first manufacturing company at the age of 14. Since then, he has founded and led more than a dozen organizations throughout his entrepreneurial journey. Kent has also provided advisory training and coaching services to executive-level management under the Symphony Advantage Brand. He is an angel investor in purpose-driven companies as well as a sought-after speaker in the US and beyond. Part ...

Dec 10, 202137 min

Paul Bellows | [Top Agency Series] How to Niche and Diversify an Agency Business

Paul Bellows is the Founder and President of Yellow Pencil, a Canadian digital agency focused on the public sector and digital service transformation. He is a 25 year veteran of digital service industries and currently provides consulting and advisory services to leaders at different levels of government in Canada and in the US. Paul is also the host of The 311 Podcast where he features innovators in the digital space as well as in government. In this episode of the Smart Business Revolution Pod...

Dec 06, 202139 min
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