by John Corcoran | Feb 8, 2018 | Business
Want to make more sales? Use humor. Brendon Lemon is a standup comic based in Chicago who also works in a day job in sales. In this interview, Brendon shares lessons learned from years of doing standup comedy which can be applied to make more sales. Learn how to not...
by John Corcoran | Nov 22, 2016 | Blogging
Warning: I’m going on a rant here. There are too many rah-rah conferences for entrepreneurs. You know what I’m talking about. 2 or 3 days of drinking from a firehose with non-stop speakers back-to-back, spewing too many ideas. Speaker after speaker telling...
by John Corcoran | Sep 8, 2016 | Blogging
In 1973, Stephen King was a struggling writer on the brink of giving up. He was living in a doublewide trailer in Hermon, Maine with his wife Tabitha and two little kids. He was driving a worn-down Buick on its last legs. Although he aspired to be an author, he hadnt...
by John Corcoran | Jul 3, 2016 | Blogging
If you don’t absolutely love the idea of throwing a live event, then don’t do it. That’s what I learned throwing a live event earlier this year. For the second time in 5 months, I put together with my business partner Dr. Jeremy Weisz, a live 2 day...
by John Corcoran | May 6, 2016 | webinars
I want to do webinars, but I don’t know how to get people to show up. I hear this all the time. And it’s heartbreaking. Why? Because I know the massive impact doing webinars has had on my business. In fact, in the past 3 years, webinars have been the #1...
by John Corcoran | Apr 25, 2016 | Networking
Ugh… the brutal “bcc.” Don’t you hate it when someone sends an email to you and a zillion other people using “bcc?” It feels so impersonal and lazy. Kind of like wearing sweatpants to a nightclub. Or getting everyone in your family the same present at...
by John Corcoran | Mar 7, 2016 | Networking
Want to hear something crazy? Just 16 days from now, I’m co-hosting a live retreat at the Fairmont Sonoma in the heart of wine country. For 2 days, a small closed door roundtable of 14 entrepreneurs will meet to share what’s working and to push through...
by John Corcoran | Feb 27, 2016 | Networking
There are two kinds of people in this world… The well-connected and the well… not-so-well-connected. And before you bemoan your lot in life and complain about how everyone else seems to have high-level connections to A-listers in your industry (and you don’t),...
by John Corcoran | Feb 18, 2016 | Blogging
Quick question: would you spend $250 per year to make an additional $50,000? Damn straight you would, right? I’ll explain in a moment how that’s possible. But first, listen up. This blog is about how to build better relationships in business. But...
by John Corcoran | Feb 10, 2016 | Business
Have you ever gone on a crazy road trip? Like the kind in college where you hop in the car with friends and only come back when you’ve run out of money or gas or bail money or all of the above? Back in the day, before I was an old Dad living with kids in the...
