Episode 24: Corey Breton, Executive Vice President, Sales, Los Angeles Football Club (LAFC)

Front Office Exchange

Welcome to Episode 24 of the Front Office Exchange podcast featuring Corey Breton, Executive Vice President of Sales for the Los Angeles Football Club, an MLS expansion team which is set to begin play in 2018. Thank you for the thousands of emails and comments about when I will finally bring on someone from professional soccer. Your voices have been heard. OK, maybe it wasn't that dramatic, but I was excited to bring someone on from that sport. Corey's in a unique "hurry up and wait" type of situation in L.A., while they work on building a stadium and launching a team, and since he joined the club last year, L.A. has added not one but TWO NFL teams. Corey talks about that increase in ticket-buyer competition and much more over the course of our conversation. He was FULL of great advice, with a couple of things standing out to me: 1. Render more services than your paycheck calls for, and 2. If you focus too much on the next step, it never comes - put blinders on and do great work now. He shared what it was like to move his family to the west coast as well, after an earlier career that saw him spend much of his time in the southeast and midwest. Big thanks both to Corey and to you for listening. For show notes, past episodes and more, please visit us at www.frontofficeexchange.com, on Facebook at Front Office Exchange and on Twitter at @frontofficeexch. Please also feel free to reach out to me directly at [e-mail] and on Twitter at @jakefehling. This and past episodes of Front Office Exchange are available on iTunes and SoundCloud, among other places, and I encourage you to subscribe, share episodes, rate them, add comments, and suggest ideas for future guests.