Tuesday February 7th 2012

Posts Tagged ‘Jerry Kennedy’

What Indie Musiscians Can Learn from Their Author Cousins

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 [...]

Podcast Episode 3.0 – The Business Heretics

Podcast Episode 3.0 – The Business Heretics

Episode 3.0 - The Business Heretics Today we had the privilege of interviewing Jerry Kennedy and Joel D Canfield.  Together they are the Business Heretics . What is business heresy? It is dissent from the dominant theory that business is only about money, deviation from the practice of treating employees and customers like expendable [...]

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 [...]