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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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Craig Fuller | Freight Trucking, Fundraising Strategies, and Transitioning To Virtual Events

Craig Fuller is the Founder and CEO of FreightWaves, a leading provider of global supply chain market intelligence news. The company provides supply chain organizations with fundamental data and context that help benchmark, analyze, monitor, and forecast activity, pricing, and risks in the global freight market. Prior to FreightWaves, Craig was the Founder of TransCard, a major provider of fleet fuel and debit cards. He is also a pilot, the CEO Flying Magazine, and was named CEO of the Year in 2...

Feb 03, 202329 min

Dr. Jeremy Weisz | Rise25 Acquisition Plans for the New Year

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 over 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 pod...

Jan 30, 202310 min

Bobbie Bailey | Brand Storytelling and Servant Leadership Styles

Bobbie Bailey is the Owner and CEO of M Agency, a full-service creative marketing agency based out of the Pacific Northwest. The agency helps impactful brands with meaningful marketing through brand identity and advertising design, specializing in interactive, digital, and print media. They work with a wide variety of companies from dental offices to airlines, helping them become staples in their space. In this episode of the Smart Business Revolution Podcast , John Corcoran interviews Bobbie Ba...

Jan 27, 202326 min

Jeanna Barrett | Inbound Marketing Best Practices and Tips for Building a Company in a New Country

Jeanna Barrett is the Founder and Chief Remote Officer of First Page Strategy, an award-winning remote growth marketing agency. She has 18 years of inbound marketing experience at venture-backed startups, digital agencies, and Fortune 500 companies, with a focus on small businesses and technology. Jeanna has been named among the 'Top 40 Under 40' of brand marketers and 'Best in the West' for financial technology marketing. In 2016, she left the US to lay roots and build her business in Belize, L...

Jan 23, 202326 min

Mike Evans | Shifts in Consumer Behavior and Strategies To Mitigate Competition

Mike Evans founded GrubHub in his spare bedroom and grew it into a multibillion-dollar online food delivery business. He led the company through five financing rounds, a couple of acquisitions, a merger, and ultimately, an IPO. Mike exited GrubHub after its IPO and founded Fixer, a Chicago-based on-demand handyman service. He is also the author of Hangry: A Startup Journey. In this episode of the Smart Business Revolution Podcast , co-hosts John Corcoran and Roger Hurni interview Mike Evans, the...

Jan 20, 202339 min

Matt Sunshine | Sales Performance Strategies and Tips for Improving Employee Engagement

Matt Sunshine is the CEO and Managing Partner at The Center for Sales Strategy, a sales performance consulting company that helps sales organizations attract, retain, and develop the highest performing salespeople. His areas of expertise include growing sales organizations, finding and developing sales superstars, sales processes, lead generation, inbound marketing, and digital marketing. Matt developed and launched LeadG2, an inbound marketing company that helps businesses establish thought lea...

Jan 16, 202343 min

David Barnett | Business Brokerage Best Practices and the Value of Content Creation

David Barnett is a business brokerage expert who works with entrepreneurs worldwide to help them buy, sell, and organize their small and medium-sized businesses. He is also a speaker and educator. David is the author of several books including Invest Local: A Guide to Superior Investment Returns in Your Own Community, Credit Card Advantage: Understand the Costs and Benefits to Your Business, Franchise Warnings: What You Really Need to Know Before You Buy, and How to Sell My Own Business. In this...

Jan 13, 202341 min

Rick Girard | Learning To Hire Better With Lessons From the Worlds of Beverly Hills, Used Car Sales, and Silicon Valley

Rick Girard is the Founder and CEO of Intertru, a platform that helps entrepreneurs and startup founders eliminate bad interviews by building a value-driven interview process that produces concrete evidence to support every hiring decision. He is also the Creator of HireOS, a hiring operating system, and the Founder and CEO of Stride Search, an engaged search firm. Rick has over 20 years of experience in the hiring and recruiting industry. He is the author of Healing Career Wounds: Your Start-up...

Jan 09, 202337 min

Gabriel Levine | [Top Agency Series] From Cab Driver To Top Lawyer, Viral Videos, and Navigating Digital Agencies Through the Pandemic

Gabriel Levine is an Attorney and Principal at Matchstick Legal, a firm that works with leading agencies, studios, and professionals across creative and technical disciplines looking to tackle business challenges, solve problems, and just get better. Gabriel has had a long career in the legal world. His practical approach to resolving difficult negotiations and disputes has brought consistent praise from both his clients and peers. Before Matchstick, Gabriel ran his own firm, Groundwork Legal, a...

Jan 06, 202339 min

Shaheen Samavati | [Top Agency Series] From Wall Street Journalist to 200+ Person Agency Founder

Shaheen Samavati is the Co-founder and CEO of VeraContent, an agency that manages global social media and content marketing channels for international brands. VeraContent works with over 200 freelance and full-time employees worldwide to generate content in multiple languages. Shaheen started her career as a journalist in the US before moving to Spain in 2010 where she completed an MBA at IE Business School, worked in corporate communication, and formed part of the founding team of a real estate...

Jan 02, 202333 min

Michelle Mundy | [Top Agency Series] Standardizing Business Processes for the Creative Services Industry

Michelle Mundy is the Founder of Onpar, a startup agency focused on solving business operational challenges within the end-to-end creative and technical production process. Onpar helps standardize the way agencies operate through process implementation and delegation. Michelle is also the Founder of Solo Entrepreneur, an organization dedicated to helping business owners kickstart, grow, and operate their businesses through community. Michelle Mundy, the Founder of Onpar, joins John Corcoran in t...

Dec 30, 202242 min

Rich Walker | Starting a Business With a Mentor and Transitioning From Financial Planning To Software Development

Rich Walker is the Co-founder and CEO of Quik!, also known as Quik! Forms, which is a company that provides forms automation and management solutions for companies looking to maximize efficiency and productivity. Prior to starting Quik!, Rich was a financial advisor with a financial network and a business consultant with Arthur Andersen. He started Quik! in 2002 to help people spend less time on paperwork and more time on what they do best. Rich has started 10 different companies since the age o...

Dec 26, 202244 min

Avi Staiman | Transitioning From Teaching To Building an Academic Translation Business

Avi Staiman is the Founder and CEO of Academic Language Experts (ALE), a company that assists academic scholars to prepare their research for publication. ALE works with top academic language and publication experts from around the world who help academics with their articles, lectures, and books. Avi is also the co-host of the New Books Network ‘Scholarly Communication’ podcast and has been a guest lecturer at NYU's Master's Program in Translation and Interpreting, The University of Tokyo, and ...

Dec 23, 202242 min

Matthew Willman | Nelson Mandela's Photographer on the Journey From Poverty To Ballet To Capturing World Leaders

Matthew Willman is a South African-based photographer. He trained as a ballet dancer and later turned that career into photography. He is also the author of Tripping Over Presidents and Stepping Away . Matthew has worked with Nelson Mandela, Bill Clinton, US and African Presidents, and has been commissioned to work with various world leaders including former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, Desmond Tutu, and 12 Nobel Peace Prize laureates. In this episode of the Smart Business Revolution Podcast...

Dec 19, 202249 min

Kevin Tacher | From NY Firefighter to Crime Fighter, FBI Stings, and Networking Strategies

Kevin Tacher is the Founder and CEO of Independence Title, a title insurance company. Also known as the “Title King,” Kevin has been featured in various media outlets including Fox News and NBC. He is a three-time best-selling author and national real estate speaker. He has shared the stage with some of the country's best real estate and motivational speakers and has worked closely with the FBI, Florida's Attorney General, and local, state, and federal agencies to uncover real estate fraud acros...

Dec 16, 202230 min

Richard Carthon| [Digital Money Series] How To Adjust To a Crypto Bear Market

Richard Carthon is the CEO and host of Crypto Current, an educational platform about cryptocurrency and blockchain. They create content that impacts thousands of people through its daily newsletter, podcast, blog, and social media. Richard is also a Managing Partner at Crescent City Capital and Acacia Digital, a cryptocurrency hedge fund and venture fund respectively. In this episode of the Smart Business Revolution Podcast, John Corcoran interviews Richard Carthon, the CEO and host of Crypto Cu...

Dec 12, 202234 min

Cindy Norcott | Scaling a Multiple Award-Winning Recruitment Agency and Tips for Working With Mentors

Cindy Norcott is the Owner of Pro Talent, a multiple award-winning recruitment agency. She started the business about 30 years ago in Durban, South Africa. Cindy is also the Founder of the Robin Hood Foundation, a motivational speaker, and the author of How To Be Unstoppable and Achieve More in Business and Life. In this episode of the Smart Business Revolution Podcast, John Corcoran interviews Cindy Norcott, the Owner of Pro Talent, about her entrepreneurial journey and the challenges she faced...

Dec 09, 202236 min

Dave Selinger | Working With Jeff Bezos, Co-founding Billion-Dollar Redfin, and Leveraging AI To Fight Crime

Dave Selinger is the Co-founder and CEO of Deep Sentinel, an AI-based home protection technology. He was an early employee at Amazon where he worked directly under Jeff Bezos before pursuing entrepreneurship. Dave co-invented Amazon Advertising, now a billion-dollar division within Amazon. He also co-founded and ran Redfin, now a multi-billion dollar real estate brokerage. In addition, he revolutionized shopping experiences for Macy's and Office Depot with his company RichRelevance. In this epis...

Dec 05, 202253 min

Saahil Mehta | Climbing Mountains, Trading Diamonds, and Uncluttering Yourself

Saahil Mehta is an entrepreneur, author, speaker, and mountaineer. He works as a leadership coach focused on guiding leaders to navigate their health, wealth, and relationships. He is the Co-founder of ResNet World and Managing Director of Saahil DMCC, a diamond trading company. Saahil has also climbed some of the world's tallest mountains. In this episode of the Smart Business Revolution Podcast, John Corcoran interviews Saahil Mehta, an entrepreneur and leadership coach. They discuss the chall...

Dec 02, 202234 min

Rich O’Neill | Overcoming Adversities, Working in a Family Business, and Building a Real Estate Company

Rich O'Neill is the Founder of Fleming Project Management, a real estate firm based in Philadelphia that serves the surrounding counties. He helps investors create wealth by managing their investment projects so they can focus on the most crucial activities in their business. Rich is also the Owner of Fleming Properties where he buys, renovates, and rents single-family and small multi-family properties. In this episode of the Smart Business Revolution Podcast , John Corcoran is joined by Rich O'...

Nov 28, 202236 min

Aaron Burnett | Democratizing Access To Space Investing through Crowdfunding

Aaron Burnett is the Founder and CEO of Spaced Ventures, the world's largest community of space investors. Spaced Ventures provides early-stage, pre-seed, and seed capital for space companies. It also provides public access to curated private space investments for both accredited and non-accredited investors. In this episode of the Smart Business Revolution Podcast , John Corcoran is joined by Aaron Burnett, the Founder and CEO of Spaced Ventures, to talk about investing in the space industry. T...

Nov 25, 202238 min

Christy Pretzinger | From Freelancer To Agency Owner and Tips for Serving the Healthcare Industry

Christy Pretzinger is the Owner and CEO of WriterGirl, a company that creates content and strategy for hospitals and healthcare organizations across the United States. Christy went from freelancing to owning her own agency, uncovering a passion for creating an environment where people can thrive. She is a lifelong learner and believes personal growth leads to professional growth. In this episode of the Smart Business Revolution Podcast , John Corcoran interviews Christy Pretzinger, the Owner and...

Nov 21, 202233 min

Michèle Hecken | Scaling a Company and The Power of Offboarding Yourself

Michèle Hecken is an executive coach, serial entrepreneur, author, and speaker. She has over 25 years of experience running Alpha Translations Canada Inc., a global translation company which she started when she was 23. Michèle has also been a member of the Entrepreneurs' Organization (EO) for more than a decade. She successfully scaled her company before offboarding herself and selling it in 2019. In this episode of the Smart Business Revolution Podcast, John Corcoran interviews Michèle Hecken ...

Nov 14, 202236 min

Rob Castaneda | The Leadership Mindset and Building Software Ecosystems

Rob Castaneda is the Founder and CEO of ServiceRocket, a firm that helps software companies build their support, training, and consulting ecosystems. He is also a member of the EO San Francisco chapter and a mentor at both Global Scaling Academy and Endeavor. Rob Castaneda, the Founder and CEO of ServiceRocket, joins John Corcoran in this episode of the Smart Business Revolution Podcast to talk about building his software company. Rob also discusses the leadership mindset and moving his company ...

Nov 11, 20226 min

Jenny Feterovich | TV/Film Production and Providing Humanitarian Aid

Jenny Feterovich is the Executive Producer at Arcadius Productions Inc. and Managing Partner at Parliament Studios. She is a film/TV producer, humanitarian, and speaker. Her flagship show, the critically acclaimed and Emmy-nominated PBS series Start Up , showcases entrepreneurs that have followed their dream of creating a small business. Jenny is also the President of the EO Detroit chapter. In this episode of the Smart Business Revolution Podcast, John Corcoran interviews Jenny Feterovich, the ...

Nov 07, 20225 min

Dawid Adach | Supporting War Refugees and Providing Relief to Businesses

Dawid Adach is the Co-founder of Material Design for Bootstrap (MDB), a free material design framework for web developers. He is an entrepreneur, a full-stack developer, and a member of the supervisory board at AI REV. Dawid was a founding member of the EO Poland chapter and served as President from 2021 to 2022. He has a master’s degree in computer science from the Warsaw University of Technology. In this episode of the Smart Business Revolution Podcast , John Corcoran interviews Dawid Adach, t...

Nov 04, 20227 min

Winnie Hart | Branding and Repositioning Companies in the Market

Winnie Hart is the Founder, President, and Chief Right Engine at TwinEngine, a brand growth agency fueled by purpose. She has built a reputation as an inspired, award-winning designer and savvy interpreter of business brands and personalities. Winnie has collaborated with the largest public and privately held corporations in the region, helping them define their position in the market through communications. She also serves as the Global Board Director for Entrepreneurs' Organization (EO). Winni...

Oct 31, 20227 min

Rodolfo Salazar | Helping Brands Grow and Scale To Over 70 Countries

Rodolfo Salazar is the Founder and CEO of IdeaWorks International, Qudox, and iDigital Studios. IdeaWorks International is a 360-degree innovation and digital transformation agency that builds and generates competitive advantages and commercial opportunities from new technologies and digital media. Qudox is a disruptive company that focuses on performance marketing for businesses that need to aggressively scale customer acquisition using digital technologies and branding. iDigital Studios helps ...

Oct 28, 20227 min

Patrick Bryant | How To Make Your Clients Successful

Patrick Bryant is the Co-founder and CEO of Code/+/Trust, a software development firm with offices in Washington, DC, and Charleston, South Carolina. As a serial entrepreneur, Patrick invests in new startups including, Teamphoria, Event.Gives, ADesk, and Shine Rolling Papers. He is recognized as a Liberty Fellow by Wofford College, a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network, and a Riley Fellow granted by Furman University. In this episode of the Smart Business Revolution Podcast, John Corco...

Oct 24, 20228 min

James Burchell | Real Estate Developments and Pivoting During the Pandemic

James Burchell is a Partner and the Co-founder of Tellon Capital, a property investment and development firm based in the UK. Tellon Capital specializes in investing in UK real estate through partnerships with high-net-worth individuals and families as well as institutional investors. It provides tailored and precise investment, asset management, and development expertise across all aspects of real estate. James has more than 20 years of experience in real estate, previously serving as the CEO o...

Oct 21, 20227 min
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