‘Jerry Kennedy’ Archives
What Indie Musiscians Can Learn from Their Author Cousins
OK, so last time I picked on indie authors, encouraging them to steal a page from the indie musician playbook and spend a little (or a lot!) more time honing their craft. I hope I didn't step on too many toes, but I know for a fact that one of the biggest complaints about self-published work is the quality (or lack thereof) of the finished [...]
What Indie Authors Can Learn from Their Musical Counterparts
The one thing that really stands out to me in the time I've been working with independent authors and musicians is this: the quality of the work produced. Indie musicians, for the most part, are incredibly talented artists. You can just tell they put their heart and soul into their work, and the result is some of the best music available on [...]
Don’t Be Afraid of Your Own Opinion
My friend Joel D Canfield, author of The Commonsense Entrepreneur (seriously one of the best business books I’ve ever read, and he doesn’t even pay me to say that), made an interesting comment to me today. He said that he never wants to go to his book’s page on Amazon and see 3s in the ratings; he only wants to see 1s and 5s. That [...]
A Social Media Fable
Hi kids! It’s Social Media Fable time, and you get to pick the moral: Once upon a time, there was a Facebook fan named Jerry. He was going about his days on Facebook, enjoying his interactions with his virtual friends, and life was good. One day, he received an invitation form one of his Facebook friends, Mr. G, to become a fan of a [...]
