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Barbara’s Rags to Riches Story
How do you turn a $1,000 loan into a five-billion dollar business? According to self-made real estate empress Barbara Corcoran, you do it by learning how to fail well. Barbara tells the story of how, armed with a loan from her boyfriend and her own gritty determination, she quit her job as a waitress to start a tiny real estate company in New York City and turned that company into a multi-billion dollar business. A highly motivational and hugely entertaining success story.
How To Lead Your Team To Greatness
Entrepreneurs, business managers and salespeople alike benefit from lessons in how to get people moving on the path to professional and personal greatness. Barbara Corcoran, who led 1,000 + brokers atv The Corcoran Group, New York’s largest real estate company, is an expert in the art of leading a team to success. From hiring the right people and firing the wrong people to creating fun in the workplace and establishing an atmosphere that breeds innovation, Barbara shares her unique and winning strategies.
How to Build a Powerful Brand
Branding may be the single most important key to success in today’s highly competitive world of commerce. Barbara Corcoran is known for having built the most successful real estate brand in New York City, and now she reveals easy to follow tips on how she does it: how to create an image much bigger than reality; how to use the press to get free publicity; how to turn yourself into the go-to expert in your field. Barbara shares her personal advice, insights and anecdotes on creating a powerful brand.
Testimonials
As it turned out, your remarks were everything we hoped they would be and contained the uplifting and inspiring messages that we felt were so important for our audience to hear” -- San Francisco Association of Realtors
I have had Barbara speak twice to sold out crowds with a waiting list each time! There isn’t a more inspiring real estate speaker in the country. Barbara Corcoran is ‘magic’ at any event.” -- Rick Higgins, Higgins Group
I have been a realtor for over 15 years and have attended many presentations by top speakers and trainers in our industry but none can compare to Barbara Corcoran's wit, common sense, and great advice! Barbara's straightforward approach to the problems she has faced and overcome provides an inspiration to everyone who hears her. I applaud her energy, enthusiasm and honesty and am always excited to see her on TV" -- Marilyn Urso, Women Council of Realtors
I am a manager for a company that spares no expense to hear the best of the best speakers. In the 24 years that I have been in this fabulous field called real estate, I have never enjoyed myself more than I did watching Barbara Corcoran speak. Such a real person . . totally in touch with today's challenging market. No wonder she built herself an empire. " -- Manager, Prudential Douglas Elliman
By dedicating the time and attention to understanding both our models and the challenges that face our franchisees, your keynote carried the weight of someone who is as invested and committed as they are, it was powerful, on track, needed, required, and well worth it." -- Tracy Christman, Budget Blinds, Inc
Barbara electrified the audience because they knew she had traveled a path in life that had similarities to their own. While others talk about thinking outside the box, Barbara has seldom stepped inside that box. Her words were nothing less than priceless and there is no doubt that the impression she made will be a gift carried by all for the rest of their lives. Everyone fell in love with her!" -- Rick Schwartz, President & CEO, World Association of Domain Name Developers Inc.
We consider ourselves fortunate to have had Barbara as our keynote speaker. Barbara amazed everyone with the brilliance, relevance, and timeliness of her remarks” -- James C. Fabris
Barbara spoke at our officers' conference with people from 16 countries in attendance. She was utterly charming-sensible, accessible and funny. Her insights about the real estate market spill over into personal career development and everyday economics. She's the one people remember" -- George Lancaster, Senior Vice President, Hines
I attended Cruise3Sixty in Ft. Lauderdale earlier this month and thoroughly enjoyed your presentation. I really think you missed your calling. You should definitely go on the comedy tour circuit. You could certainly liven up any event" -- Fred Kerner, Grandview Travel
On October 5, Barbara Corcoran addressed [or "wowed"] a standing-room only crowd at More Magazine's 3rd Annual Reinvention Convention. Introduced as the "patron saint of any woman who has ever created her own career," Barbara told the highlights of her story, to much laughter and applause: how her mother taught her to use the gifts she had; how her boyfriend loaned her money to get started, then dumped her to marry her secretary; how she went off on her own and made a success of the business by being an innovator; how she sold the company for $68 million--then faced the question of, What next. She told the audience how she'd figured out her second career: By making list after list of what she'd ever liked and disliked about her various jobs (not just at the Corcoran Group but at the 20-somethng jobs she'd held before that) and then choosing the thing she liked best as her next career. That brought her to media, to various TV gigs, and finally to her current situation: as regular contributor to the Today Show, and her spot as one of five moguls on ABC's Shark Tank. She then offered More's readers a list of the 10 things she'd learned while making the transition. Some samples: "You can't change your wiring, just your packaging." "Reinvent in stages." "Your old contacts from your old field are useless--building new contacts is the name of the game." And: "In my new business, my insecurities are my best friends." The audience was wildly appreciative, swarming Barbara as she left the podium, asking for autographs and advice. A combination of high energy and high takeaway value, Barbara was a tremendous hit. -- Judith Coyne, Executive Editor of MORE Magazine
Absolutely love @BarbaraCorcoran ! Her talk today at #SHINE was fabulous - hysterical, inspiring, authentic. -- wealthydesigner via Twitter
@BarbaraCorcoran was a fun motivator and modeled great leadership with stories of celebrating failures as opportunity @#shine -- TammyRedmon via Twitter
Loving @barbaracorcoran at #shine. Fantastic proof you can absolutely be who you are and be a great success. A new hero for me. -- AlexisNeeley via Twitter
