Corporate Trainer

4 Tips For Starting A Successful Corporate Trainer (2024)

Pat Walls

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Updated: January 19th, 2023

Want to start your own corporate trainer? Here are some tips you should know:

Learn more about starting a corporate trainer:

Where to start?

-> How much does it cost to start a corporate trainer?
-> Pros and cons of a corporate trainer

Need inspiration?

-> Other corporate trainer success stories
-> Marketing ideas for a corporate trainer

Other resources

We've interviewed thousands of successful founders at Starter Story and asked what advice they would give to entrepreneurs who are just getting started.

Here's the best advice we discovered for becoming a corporate trainer:

#1: Jonathan Pritchard, founder of Like A Mind Reader:

We chatted with with Jonathan, founder of Like A Mind Reader ($20K/month). In our interview, Jonathan says:

Good copywriting is essential for websites, emails, social media posts, books, everything. Being able to use words to get people to buy from you is a superpower

Additionally:

Holding on too tightly to how you see yourself can blind you to opportunity. For the longest time I resisted doing anything other than performing because I saw myself as only a performer. I was missing out on speaking, writing, community building, consulting, and all the ways I eventually discovered to offer value to a market.

Read the full interview ➜

#2: Andrew Tarvin, founder of Humor That Works:

We chatted with with Andrew, founder of Humor That Works ($12.5K/month). In our interview, Andrew says:

My primary focus in business development was inspired by a quote by Steve Martin, “Be so good they can’t ignore you.” Not, “Be good so people like you” or even, “Be really really really good so people are happy.” It’s “Be so good, they can’t ignore you.”

Additionally:

Once I decided I was going to leave my job, I made a spreadsheet called “Operation: Leave Corporate America” (OLCA for short). It included a list of all the things I needed to have completed before I felt comfortable quitting my full-time job.