John Corcoran is an attorney and the founder of Smart Business Revolution. He’s also the consummate networker. Listen to the episode to here how you can grow your network and in turn use it to grow your business.
Some of the things we discussed:
- The book Give and Take by Adam Grant, and why you should always give first
- The TechStars Mentor Manifesto
- The original networking book, Andrew Carnegie’s How to Win Friends and Influence People
- A great quote from Zig Ziglar: “You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help enough other people get what they want.”
- Why you should “Keep it personal, stupid”
- John’s guest post about connecting with influencers on OkDork. (I did essentially the same thing in asking John to run my post about how to start a podcast or interview site.)
- An app to help you learn to embrace rejection: The Failure Games
I also open the show with a discussion of the difference between vulnerability and pathos.
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