Building Strategic Relationships to Grow Your eCommerce Business

John Corcoran from Rise25 talks about building strategic relationships to grow your ecommerce business. John Corcoran also talks about getting qualified leads which seem to be harder to get currently. He also covers effective strategies that work well for lead generation today and what role does a podcast play in lead generation. Also covered in the interview: What is the importance of growing relationships for Amazon sellers? What advice when we get back to business events and social events to create contacts. What can you do with the contact information once you have it? What are some of the mistakes made when trying to generate leads. What kind or tips or the proper approach when connecting with LinkedIn? How to get the new connection to the point where you can do a subtle sales pitch? What role does a Podcast play in lead generation? How much time does John spend weekly on his Podcast? What is the best approach to get in contact with top influencers? Is it too late to start a Podcast? What is the importance of diversifying as an Amazon seller? What brought John Corcoran to working in the White House? What leads to the creation of Rise25? How to contact John Corcoran and his podcast. About John Corcoran Co-founders of Rise25 - https://www.rise25.com Rise25, LLC, a company whose mission is to help your business connect to your ideal prospects, referral partners, and strategic partners using a done-for-you podcast. The bottom line is we make sure you ROI from your podcast. Leveraging strategy based on our collective 20 years of podcasting experience, Rise25 helps you to connect quicker to higher caliber referral partners, clients, strategic partners, and industry influencers to generate ROI without heavy selling. John Corcoran is a recovering attorney and a writer, author, father of four, and a former Clinton White House Writer and Speechwriter to the Governor of California. Throughout his career, John has worked in Hollywood, the heart of Silicon Valley, and ran his own boutique law firm in the San Francisco Bay Area catering to small business owners and entrepreneurs. He is the author of three books about relationship building and client acquisition and has written for Forbes, Entrepreneur, Business Insider, Lifehacker, The San Francisco Chronicle, and basically anywhere else that will let him. He has been the host of the Smart Business Revolution podcast since 2012, through which he has interviewed hundreds of CEOs, founders, authors, and entrepreneurs, from Peter Diamandis and Adam Grant to Gary Vaynerchuk and Marie Forleo. About FeedbackWhiz - https://www.feedbackwhiz.com FeedbackWhiz helps Amazon sellers monitor, manage, and automate emails, product reviews, orders, and feedback. Build professional email templates with gifs, emojis, buttons, and attachments. A/B test subject lines and view open rate analytics. Send or exclude emails based on triggers such as refunds, shipment, delivery, feedback, and repeat buyers. Track and manage all product reviews. Instant notifications whenever a review is posted. Monitor all product listings and get alerts when critical events such as hijackers, buy-box loss, and listing changes occur.