009: Hollis Carter and Jonny Andrews Of Perfect Publishing System | How They Reinvent the Publishing Business
I’m kind of fascinated by entrepreneurs who create businesses that are truly ground-breaking. Apparently others are too, because the blog post I wrote about “8 Entrepreneurs Who Identified A Common Pain & Invented a New Business Category” has received a ton of traffic and has been retweeted and shared a number of times. One of […]
008: Andrew Warner of Mixergy.com | How to Bootstrapped a $38 Million/Year Business
If you try hard enough, you can make a business out of just about anything. Andrew Warner created a successful business grounded in his ability to ask great questions. Andrew created a website called Mixergy.com which began with video interviews of startup entrepreneurs. Mixery has since branched out in to providing instructional courses on how […]
006: Dan Pink | How to Move Others to Do What You Want Them to Do
One in nine Americans sells for a living.? In other words, sales is their full-time position.? Their success and often their very future with their company depends on meeting sales numbers. That’s a pretty staggering wake-up call. Sell, and you get to keep your job. Don’t sell, and you are out on the streets. It […]
005: Corbett Barr of Think Traffic | How to Get Traffic for Your Website or Blog
If you are in business today, you probably have a website or a blog. If you don’t have either, then you can check out now. Hand over the keys to your business and turn off the lights on your way out. But if you do have a website or a blog, then you probably are […]
004: Peter Shankman of Help A Reporter Out (HARO) | How Businesses Can Get Started Using Social Media
For centuries, reporters needed sources to provide quotes for their stories, and experts who wanted to be quoted in the media had no easy way to get matched up with those reporters. Peter Shankman solved that age-old problem. In this episode of the Smart Business Revolution Podcast, I interview Peter Shankman, who created the Help […]
002: Doug Lebda of LendingTree.com | How to Build and Re-Build a Remarkable Online Business
In this episode of the Smart Business Revolution Podcast, John Corcoran speaks with Doug Lebda, the founder of one of the most successful online businesses to survive through the dot-com era to today, Lending Tree.
001: The First Smart Business Revolution Podcast | The 3 Things I Wish I Knew When I Became an Entrepreneur
Drum roll please … I am very excited to present my very first Smart Business Revolution podcast! If you’ve been reading this blog for awhile, you know there have been a lot of changes in the past year. We basically overhauled the entire site, and adding a podcast was a major goal of mine.? In […]
002: Doug Lebda of LendingTree.com | How to Build and Re-Build a Remarkable Online Business
In this episode of the Smart Business Revolution Podcast, I had the pleasure of speaking with Doug Lebda, the founder of one of the most successful online businesses to survive through the dot-com era to today, Lending Tree. LendingTree.com was founded in 1996, and was inspired by Lebda’s own personal frustration applying for a mortgage. […]
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